ECG has prepared an unusual diary, which is focussed on the integration of migrants into the European society.

The first part of the publication introduces a successful project, Put Yourself into Integration!, which made it possible to create this diary.

The practical part  contains explications of important terms such as integration and assimilation, gender and cultural sensitivity, stereotypes and prejudices. It also contains interactive exercises, which are an untraditional window to the phenomenon of migration.

In January 2007 the ECG has launched a unique training project called “Put yourself into integration”. This innovative and tailor-made project is designed to provide training to officials from the governmental sector and NGOs working in the field of integration of foreigners in the Czech Republic.

The training focuses on less common issues in this area such as gender and cultural sensitivity, use of community development methods in daily work with migrants, refugees and ethnic minorities, issues of stereotypes and prejudices etc.

Main partner for this project is London based organisation called Praxis, which has been working for 24 years in London’s East End (Tower Hamlets), a place of numerous ethnic communities.

European churches and church related organisations respond to EU’s Green Paper on'Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century'

 European churches and church-related organisations working in the area of employment and migration are concerned about the ongoing high level of unemployment in the European Union. These concerns also include the increasing segmentation of the labour market, with more and more precarious employment situations and the growing marginalisation of specific groups such as long term unemployed, less skilled people, people with disabilities, single parent families, ethnic minorities and people with a migration background.

Learning by doing: That’s the premise behind an innovative new project designed to bridge the chasm between Czech bureaucracy and the country’s growing immigrant population.

Launched Jan. 24, the “Put Yourself into Integration” project is the brainchild of the Prague-based European Contact Group, a non-governmental organization  that focuses on migration and labour. The group has enlisted the partnership of a British NGO named Praxis , which has worked for 24 years in London’s East End, an area famous for its hodgepodge of diverse ethnicities.

Together, the organizations will school Czech bureaucrats on immigration issues, then fly them to London to practice what they’ve learned.