The latest EU Resettlement News Digest is now online!
The bi-weekly EU Resettlement News Digest gathers the latest resettlement news and stories across Europe and worldwide.
Belgium - Stakeholder meeting on resettlement
On Friday 19th of April, the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRA) and the Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil) organized another resettlement stakeholder meeting in Brussels in the framework of the resettlement programme for Belgium in 2013.
Resettlement films from Sweden
Sweden is the European country receiving the highest number of resettled refugees annually, with an annual resettlement quota of 1,900 persons. Resettled refugees who come to Sweden often have little knowledge of their new home, which puts great demands on the municipalities receiving the them.
Launch of the SHARE-PRO ASYL publication 'A City Says Yes!'
On May 8th, SHARE and PRO ASYL launched the publication 'A City Says Yes!' capturing the successful tools and approaches of the German 'Save Me' campaign.
When universities engage in resettlement...
There are a number of ways in which universities are engaged in the support of higher education for refugees. The Foundation for Refugee Students UAF has developed a new section on this website showing good examples of this involvement.
Refugee resettlement and volunteering - resources now online!
Volunteers play an invaluable role in helping resettled refugees to build their new lives in the country of resettlement. To enable volunteering expertise to be further shared across stakeholders in Europe, these pages contain English language translations of volunteering resources produced by organisations in Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark, in addition to resources produced in English by organisations in the UK.