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