Identification of stakeholders that made an identification of the practice
Béla Soltész, Menedék – Hungarian Association for Migrants
Criteria actors or stakeholder are using to assess them as a “good practice”
Enabling the staff of the municipality for dealing with migration-specific topics
Name and leading organization (contact details provided)
Municipality of Szeged
Target VG and type of host community
Young immigrants (not only refugees) in a mid-sized town by the southern border of Hungary (main entry point for refugees in 2015)
Application setting
A town where immigrant population has started to rise, participated in a transnational project about better measuring and managing migration. After a screening of local needs and local services, several pilot interventions were implemented: front office and back office staff training in topics related to immigration, specific training to kindergarten teachers about integration of foreign children
Objectives
To lay the foundations of a local immigrant integration framework in a town where there was no such thing before
Length
2 years 6 months (1 January 2017 – 30 June 2019).
Requirements/ accessibility issues
Qualified researchers and trainers were hired from partner institutions
Performance procedures
There were 5 full-day trainings, and the front office info point for migrants operated during one year (and a website and a brochure were created)
Difficulties or constrains for its implementation
Political context, difficult inter-institutional cooperation
Results
A network and a shared knowledge base of immigration-related knowledge for municipal employees
Comments
For more information see https://www.szegedvaros.hu/youmig/#english