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MINT
MOBILITY AND INTEGRATION
EUROPE 2020
Workshop 1
Eschweiler
March 10, 2014 – March 12, 2014
Summary Report
VENUE
The kick-off workshop of the MINT project
was organized between March 10, 2014 and
March 12, 2014 in the town hall of
Eschweiler.
The town hall of Eschweiler: venue of the 1. MINT
workshop in March 2014
PARTICIPANTS
Delegations from the following cities
participated in the first MINT-workshop in
Eschweiler:
 Stadt Stolberg (Germany)
 Stadt Eupen (Belgium)
 Gemeente Kerkrade (Netherlands)
 Ville des Wattrellos (France)
 Municipality of Ortona (Italy)
 Pasman (Croatia)
 Fundacion Maimona (Spain)
Welcome to the delegations by the Mayor of
Eschweiler Mr. Rudi Bertram (left) together with Mr.
Wolfgang Joussen (B-PLAN)
 Stadt Eschweiler (Germany).
These cities form the MINT Network of
smaller and medium sized cities on mobility
and integration in Europe with perspective
2020.
PROGRAMME/RESULTS
Delegations working at the first day of the MINT
workshop in Eschweiler
Presentation on the situation in Wattrelos by Mrs.
Roggo-Delsart (together with Mr. Haustein, Stadt
Eschweiler)
Participants of the guided tour through Eschweiler
During the first day of the workshop the
delegations of the partner cities of the MINT
Network presented information on their cities
and the actual situation on mobility and
integration. Furthermore the delegations
expressed their expectations for the work of
the MINT Network till the end of the project in
2015. Common fields of interest were
identified guiding the activities in the
following workshops in 2014 and 2015.
At the end of the day the delegations took
part in a guided tour through the center of
Eschweiler referring to the development of
society and economy in Eschweiler since the
beginning
of
industrialization.
The
delegations received information on the
impact of several immigration waves on
urban development in Eschweiler since the
beginning of the 20th century.
The second day of the workshop was
reserved for a guided tour though the city of
Aachen with regard to the transformation of
the city and the Aachen region since the end
of coal mining and the beginning economic
transformation from “mining to high tech” in
the last quarter of the 20th century.
Historical places: guided tour through Aachen
In the second part of the workshop the
delegations discussed in detail the work and
timetable of the MINT project and the issues
to be addressed in 2014 and 2015. The
approved work and timetable is attached to
this report.
The delegations furthermore agreed to use a
matrix guiding the in depth analysis of the
actual situation on mobility and integration
and the challenges and opportunities of
migration in their cities with perspective
2020. The matrix is attached to this report.
At the last day of the first MINT workshop in
Eschweiler the delegations in several
working groups discussed on MINT´s public
relations activities and on adequate means
and ways to disseminate the results of the
network´s activities. A summary of MINT´s
communication strategy is attached to this
report.
As a first result MINT´s website will be
launched soon www.mint-eschweiler.eu.
Communication strategy: MINT´s way to the
public
Additionally the MINT Network will employ
flyers to inform the public on its activities and
results of work. The MINT Network also will
be present in social media and publish a
newsletter for the dissemination of actual
discussions and activities.
A first photo documentation of MINT´s kickoff-workshop is available at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123309878@N08/
ATTACHMENTS
Work and Timetable approved 04/2014
Matrix: In Depth Analysis (actual situation)
and Local Scenarios 2020
Summary: MINT Communication Strategy
MINT
EUROPE 2020
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Workshop 2
Eschweiler
June 2, 2014 – June 4, 2014
Summary Report
VENUE
The second workshop of the MINT Project
was organized between June 2, 2014 and
June 4, 2014 at the Business-Technology
Centre (GeTeCe Gewerbe-TechnologieCenter Eschweiler).
Business-Technology Centre Eschweiler: venue of the
2. MINT Workshop in June 2014
PARTICIPANTS
participated in the second MINT Workshop in
Eschweiler:
 Gemeente Kerkrade
 Ville des Wattrelos (France)
Members of the delegations from Italy, Spain, France,
Belgium, Netherlands, Croatia and Germany at the
opening of the second MINT Workshop in Eschweiler in
June 2014
2020.
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PROGRAMME/RESULTS
On Monday morning, June 2, 2014 the
participants of the second MINT Workshop
were welcomed by the Mayor of Eschweiler,
Mr. Rudi Bertram, at the BusinessTechnology Centre.
With the second workshop the MINT project
started its in-depth-analyses and scans on
mobility and integration in the countries and
cities of the network.
Mobility and Integration in Eschweiler
First an in-depth-view on migration and
integration in Eschweiler since World War II
was given by representatives of the City of
Eschweiler.
Mrs. Demet Jawher and Mr. Wolfgang Joussen
reporting on migration and integration in Eschweiler
Mrs. Dehmet Jawher, Dept. Social Affairs,
Seniors and Integration of the City of
Eschweiler, together with Wolfgang Joussen,
B-PLAN, described the organizational
structure of the work on mobility and
integration at the city administration. The City
of Eschweiler disposes of an integration
officer and has declared integration to be a
cross-sectional task of the city administration.
Mrs. Jawher presented an overview of the
different immigration waves to Eschweiler
since WW 2 and presented statistics on the
development of the immigration population in
Eschweiler since then.
Since 2013 the number of refugees coming
to Eschweiler has increased and actually
leads to new challenges for the city. Mrs.
Jawher pointed out that only a small number
of these refugees coming to Eschweiler - as
all refugees in Germany - has prospects of
remaining in the country and most of them
nearly no chances for legal work during their
time in the city. This often leads to
challenging work situations for the social
workers.
Missing language skills and
schooling of children are additional problems
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the social workers and officer of the city
administration have to cope with.
With regard to refugees the cities have to
execute national law which implies very
limited influence on the basic parameters of
the living conditions of refugees.
Mr. Hani Afrim, a refugee from Syria, reporting about
live as refugee on the MINT Workshop in Eschweiler
To get a deeper insight in these living
conditions a refugee from Syria reported on
the second MINT Workshop why he left Syria
and spoke about his experiences as a
refugee in Germany and Eschweiler. For him
it is a great problem that he up to now is not
allowed to work or to begin a course of study
here. He meanwhile started to learn German
and hopes to receive the right of asylum in
Germany soon.
After this report a brief overview on three
other activities in Eschweiler was given:
 Project “XENOS-ZIRQEL” 2012-2014:
This project – conducted by a consortium of
5 organizations in the Aachen region; lead
partner: low-tec; project partner: i.a. City of
Eschweiler – aims at promoting access of
immigrants to the health care system,
particularly of the elderly immigrant
population. Many immigrants who came to
Germany and the Aachen region as working
immigrants expected to work here for a
limited time period only and intended to go
back to their home countries after one or two
years. Instead of these expectations most of
these so called “Gastarbeiter” stayed in
Germany and also their families took up
residence here also. Meanwhile this
immigrant generation in Germany became
old and often needs medical and social care,
which up to now mostly is provided by family
members. But with the ongoing integration of
the second and third generation into the labor
market their “care promise” becomes weak,
so that In the next years it is expected that to
a higher degree older immigrants have to
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employ external professional medical and
social care to compensate the loss of family
care. This also is a challenging situation of
people working in the medical and service
sector, because there is a new a higher
demand for intercultural competences. So
the XENOS-ZIRQEL project wants to
improve information and access to and
acceptance of immigrant people for
professional medical and social services.
Furthermore the project aims to improve
labor market participation of immigrants and
people with migration background in the
health and care sector employing their
“native”
language
and
intercultural
competences.
The City of Eschweiler has taken
responsibility to establish a network of
companies and organization busy in the field
of health and care for elderly people in the
Aachen region. The network offers specialist
support for XENOS-ZIRQEL activities to
improve intercultural competences and has
to raise awareness for an intercultural
orientation in the health and care sector.
More information on the project XENOSZIRQEL is provided by www.xenos-zirqel.de.
 Project “SUN – Sustainable Urban
Neighborhoods” – Promotion of Ethnical
Economy 2009-2012
In the SUN project, which was conducted in
the Euregio Maas-Rhine between 2008 and
2012, financed by the EU INTERREG IV A
Programme, the City of Eschweiler worked
on the promotion of ethnical economy. By an
activating
inquiry
entrepreneurs
with
migration background were asked to
describe the founding and the actual situation
of their business and to report on problems
they face. Furthermore they were invited to
join a network of business women and men
with migration background in Eschweiler to
form a lobby for this group of entrepreneurs
in Eschweiler and the region. Additionally a
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counseling office was established to assist
entrepreneurs and those people with
migration background that would like to start
their own business. With a help of a film
produced by the project good practices to
promote ethnic economy were transferred to
people and institutions busy with ethnic
economy in other cities and regions.
More information on the project SUN and its
activities in Eschweiler is provided by the
website www.sun-euregio.eu.
 Monitoring System for the Quality
Management of Integration Work in
Eschweiler 2010-2011
Mrs. Katharina Schoenbeck, pro-dialog, and Mr.
Wolfgang Joussen presenting the monitoring
system developed in Eschweiler
Mrs. Katharina Schoenbeck, pro-dialog
(Cologne) informed the participants of the
workshop about a project conducted together
with the City of Eschweiler. With this project,
funded by the KOMM-IN-NRW Programme of
the Government of North Rhine Westphalia,
a monitoring system was developed and
implemented to evaluate the results of
integration work of the city administration and
organizations in Eschweiler.
The monitoring system compares the target
system of integration in a community with
actual data on target achievements
combining quantitative and qualitative data.
For this comparison a detailed indicator
system has been developed which allows a
“measurement” of the results of integration
work
in
different
phases
of
its
implementation.
More information on the quality management
system and its implementation in Eschweiler
is
provided
by
www.integrationeschweiler.de.
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
Renewal
(forthcoming)
of
Eschweiler-West
Based on experiences and best practices
developed in a renewal project in a quarter
with a high number of immigrant people in
Eschweiler-Ost in the frame of the “SozialeStadt”-Programme Eschweiler has taken
initiative for an new integrated urban, social
and
economic
renewal
of
another
neighborhood with a high number of people
with migration background in EschweilerWest. In the MINT Workshop a short
introduction was given with regard to the
identified urban, social and economic
problems in that neighborhood and
approaches to cope with these problems in
the new project.
Mobility and Integration in Stolberg
On Monday afternoon the participants were
provided with detailed information on the
history and actual situation with regard to
migration and integration in the City of
Stolberg.
Mr. Paul Schaefermeier, Coordination
Center „Senior Citizens“ Stolberg at his
presentation at the second MINT Workshop
on mobility and integration of elderly people
in Stolberg
At the beginning Mr. Paul Schaefermeier
from the coordination center “Senior Citizens”
Stolberg described the living conditions
particularly of elderly people with migration
background and approaches and instruments
employed by the City of Stolberg to support
these people. Stolberg also has an aging
population: more than 25% of the population
is above 60, the population of 80 years and
older will increase to 7,9% of the total
population till 2020. An important part of the
elderly people are immigrants, which mostly
came to Stolberg as labour migrants.
The work of the coordination center is based
on three main pillars:
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 case management
 group work/dissemination of
information
 community work.
Mr. Schaefermeier reported that the care
promise for elderly people particularly in the
Turkish community more and more becomes
fragile. On the other hand professional care
services very often are not accepted.
According to the experiences in Stolberg an
additional problems often arise from
insufficient language skills particularly from
older Turkish women, who often are not able
to communicate in German.
Mr. Michael Bosseler, youth welfare officer of
the City of Stolberg, reporting on mobility and
integration of young people in Stolberg
Due to the high number of immigrant people
also youth work in Stolberg to a high degree
is work with young people with migration
background. Michael Bosseler, member of
staff of the youth welfare office of the City of
Stolberg in his presentation described the
challenging demands of work with this target
group. The youth welfare office employs an
approach that does not separate work with
young people with and without migration
background, which would lead to new
stigmatization and discrimination. Furthermore the City of Stolberg has taken initiative
for projects were both groups interact and
cooperate to improve their living conditions.
One of the projects which just started is the
project “Young Guides for Fitness and
Health”. In this project, which is funded by
Aktion Mensch – a German foundation for
the improvement of working and living
conditions of vulnerable people – the City of
Stolberg cooperates with two other cities in
the Aachen region and the regional
organization of the DRK German Red Cross
(lead partner). The project aims to raise
awareness for a healthy living by young
people between 12 and 18 years and to
improve their knowledge of job opportunities
in the health care sector.
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The second day of the workshop was
reserved for a guided tour through
Eschweiler-Ost where in the last years an
urban, social and economic renewal process
successfully has been conducted.
Delegation on a guided tour in Eschweiler-Ost
The participants of the MINT Workshop had
the opportunity to convince themselves of the
results of the renewal of buildings and streets
in the quarter. The social processes and
results of the renewal process also were
subject of a meeting with a representative of
an NGO founded to manage and run a new
neighborhood center in Eschweiler-Ost, Mr.
Hamad, who is head of BEO e.V. This center
has become a communication and
cooperation platform for common activities
and projects of the German and the foreign
population in the quarter. The center is also
the home of a tutoring institute established by
the City of Eschweiler to support young
people
with
and
without
migration
background in their course of education.
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Delegation with Mr. Hamad, head of NGO BEO
e.V. Eschweiler-Ost
Delegation visiting a house for asylum seekers
and refugees in Eschweiler
After that the participants of the workshop
started a tour to several buildings in
Eschweiler, where refugees and asylum
seekers live. Members of staff of the city
administration here are in charge to support
these people to cope with their everyday life
in a foreign country and culture and mostly
without sufficient language competences.
The city for this part of its population has to
execute national law and guidelines and has
nearly no leeway for an own integration
policy.
In the afternoon the participants at first
visited the “Youth Bus” Stolberg, a kind of
mobile youth center. Stolberg is a
neighboring city of Eschweiler facing similar
social and economic problems. with a strong
industrial backbone in the past and present
Stolberg is a city with a high number of
foreign population and migration background
in the Aachen region.
At the beginning of the Stolberg tour the
participants visited the “Youth Bus”. This bus
is equipped with computer and internet
access and games, but also allows to chill in
a pleasant atmosphere. The team of the bus,
comprising social workers and other relevant
professions, with low level access supports
young people whenever they need and are
willing to accept help with regard to private,
school or other problems.
Visiting the „Youth Bus“ in Stolberg
Lunchtime at Blausteinsee Eschweiler
Inside the „Youth Bus“ Stolberg
With the help of a published time table young
people are informed about the visiting time of
this mobile “youth center” in their
neighborhood and the places were to meet
around the city. Meanwhile the bus has
become an accepted institution for young
people in the city.
The participants of the MINT Workshop then
went to a new neighborhood center – the
KUGEL Culture and Generation Center
Stolberg-Velau/Auf der Muehle - in a quarter
with a high number of foreign people. This
center has the task to organize the dialogue
between people from different countries and
cultures as well as between the generations.
Representatives of an NGO which has taken
responsibility for the work in the culture and
generation center described problems and
challenges, but also about successful
activities and projects to overcome tensions
between parts of the German population and
foreigners.
In the late afternoon the participants were
invited by Turkish-Islamic Union of the
Institute for Religion (DITIB) to visit its
mosque in the center of Stolberg. The
participants were welcomed by the head of
the mosque association, Mr. Turgay Sacu,
and by a tour through the mosque learned
about DITIBs work and activities in Stolberg.
At the end of the visit the participants had the
opportunity to pose their questions on Islam,
the live of Muslims in Stolberg and their
cooperation with other religions and other
cultures in the city.
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The third day of the second MINT Workshop
was reserved for the presentation on mobility
and integration in the Belgium City of Eupen.
Mr. Nahl and Mrs. Hilgers-Kuleikina reporting
on the situation in Eupen
Mr. Achim Nahl, head of the Commission
“Coexistence of Cultures”, and Mrs. Nadège
Hilgers-Kuleikina, member of staff of the city
administration and working at the welcome
office for foreigners, in their presentation first
gave an overview over the federal structure
of the state in Belgium also explaining the
role of the German Speaking Community in
Belgium and its – in some fields limited competences and responsibilities. With the
help of a recently produced film shown at the
workshops the City of Eupen welcomes new
inhabitants. With the help of comics the film
also tries to figure out some general rules of
behavior new inhabitants should follow to
maintain social harmony in a population with
people from many different countries,
religions and cultures.
The City of Eupen furthermore has
established a welcome office for asylum
seekers and refugees, which provides
information and support at the beginning of
their live in Eupen. The project till the end of
2014 is funded by EU Refugees Fund.
Recently a working group of the Council for
Development Cooperation, Solidarity and
Integration (RESI) of the German Speaking
Community (DG) has finished and published
an integration concept aiming to better
integrate the foreign population and people
with migration background in the DG of
Belgium. Actually there are 13.500 foreigners
form EU countries and about 2.000
foreigners from outside the European Union
living in the DG.
The integration concept in seven fields of
activity – living together in diversity,
language, school and vocational training,
employment, health, housing and civil life –
works out recommendations why and how to
improve the working and living conditions of
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foreigners and to promote mutual acceptance
and integration.
In the afternoon of the third workshop day the
delegations drew their conclusions of what
they had heard and seen during the second
MINT Workshop on mobility and integration
in Eschweiler and Eupen. The main subject
of discussion was the situation of asylum
seekers and refugees. According to the
participants of the MINT Workshop it should
be a common task of all EU countries to
develop and implement an integrated policy
approach for the EU as a whole to guarantee
the right of asylum and to improve the living
situation of these people. As a result same
rights and conditions for refugees and
asylum seekers in all EU countries should be
established. To achieve this also language
training and the right to work for the
participants have to become most important
topics on the agenda to work on. The MINT
Network is going to develop common
projects for good practices in these fields of
activity. Initial considerations were made to
be developed in detail in one of the next
workshops.
The last part of the workshop was reserved
to continue the discussion on instruments to
disseminate information on work and results
of the MINT network. A website is currently in
progress and will be launched in a view
weeks. The delegations also agreed to use
social media to involve organizations busy
with mobility and integration in their countries
for future MINT Network activities. Also a
multilingual flyer will be employed to spread
information on the network in Europe.
The website, the use of social media and the
flyer will be subject of final discussion on the
forthcoming third MINT Workshop in
Eschweiler in September 2014.
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PRESENTATIONS
All presentations of the second MINT
Workshop can be downloaded from the
website
www.mint-eschweiler.eu
GALLERY
A photo documentation of the second MINT
Workshop is available at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/123309878@N
08/
IMPRINT
Editor:
City of Eschweiler
Dept. Social Affairs, Seniors and Integration
Johannes-Rau-Platz 1
D-52249 Eschweiler
Author:
Wolfgang Joussen
B-PLAN Büro
für sozialwissenschaftliche
Analysen und Planungen, D-52379 Langerwehe
Photos:
Peter Toporowski, Wolfgang Joussen
Opinions expressed in this publication are sole
responsibility of the authors and do not
necessarily reflect the opinion of the City of
Eschweiler.
Eschweiler, July 2014
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MINT
EUROPE 2020
Workshop 3
Eschweiler
September 15, 2014 – September 17, 2014
Summary Report
VENUE
The third workshop of the MINT Project was
organized between September 15, 2014 and
September 17, 2014 at the Town Hall of
Eschweiler.
Town Hall Eschweiler: venue of the 3. MINT Workshop
PARTICIPANTS
participated in the third MINT Workshop in
Eschweiler:
 Gemeente Kerkrade
 Ville des Wattrelos (France)
2020.
PROGRAMME/RESULTS
At this workshop representatives of the
Municipality of Ortona (Italy), of the
Fundacon Maimona - a network of municipalities in the Maimona region of Spain – and
of the Municipality of Pasman (Croatia)
reported on history, actual situation and
expected developments till 2020 of mobility
and integration. In this report their
presentations are documented.
ORTONA (Italia)
The City of Ortona
Main current integration projects
Mr. Gianluca Coletti
To start the presentation: click here
Legal
Framework
on
Immigration
Dr. Domenico Galanti
To start the presentation: click here.
Italian Integration Policy
Dr. Paola Paolini
Migration
In
Italy
Dr.
Dasantila Hoxha
Current situation
and perspectives
MAIMONA (Spain)
Presentation by
Olga Galea Galeardo (Fundacion Maimona)
LOS SANTOS DE MAIMONA
PASMAN (Croatia)
Emigration vs. Immigration on
Croatian islands
Municipality of Pašman
Presenter: Ivan Jedvaj, Phd
IMPRINT
Editors:
City of Eschweiler
D-52249 Eschweiler
Wolfgang Joussen
B-PLAN Büro
Analysen und Planungen, D-52379 Langerwehe
Eschweiler.
Eschweiler, November 2014
MINT
EUROPE 2020
Workshop 4
Eschweiler
November 24, 2014 – November 26, 2014
Summary Report
VENUE
The fourth workshop of the MINT Project
was organized between November 24,
2014 and November 26, 2014 at the
Town Hall of Eschweiler.
Town Hall Eschweiler: venue of the 4th MINT Workshop
PARTICIPANTS
participated in the fourth MINT workshop
in Eschweiler:
- Stolberg (Germany)
- Eupen (Belgium)
- Kerkrade
- Wattrelos (France)
- Ortona (Italy)
- Pasman (Croatia)
- Fundacion Maimona (Spain)
- Eschweiler (Germany).
smaller and medium sized cities on
mobility and integration in Europe with
perspective 2020.
PROGRAM/RESULTS
MINT Workshop 4
Program
(string+click)
At this workshop representatives from
Wattrelos
(F)
–
and
from
Kerkrade/Eurode reported on history,
actual situation, problems and expected
developments till 2020 of mobility and
integration in Kerkrade/Eurode. In this
report
their
presentations
are
documented.
WATTRELOS (F)
by Stéphane Thierry and colleagues, F-Wattrelos
Wattrelos is a town in the North department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region. It is
part of Lille Métropole Urban Community (1.2 million inhabitants) and Eurométropole
Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai which has over 2 million inhabitants. Wattrelos is located on the
Belgian border, immediate neighbor of Mouscron, 14 km from Lille, 15 km from
Menin, 17 km of Kortrijk and 200 km from Paris. Wattrelos is near the towns of
Roubaix and Tourcoing. Wattrelos is the fifth city of the Lille Métropole and eighth
Northern Department. It now has 43,000 inhabitants.
Wattrelos is a city for the young population: almost 60% of the population is under 44
years old.
In the economic sphere, Wattrelos has many advantages for investors: access facilities (two routes open to Belgium in 2004 on the west and east of the city), 90
hectares of brownfield reclaim (Spinning the Sartel, Spinning St. Lievin and Lainière
de Roubaix and the majority of its buildings is actually in the territory of Wattrelos)
and development land in business parks to complement the existing offer - especially
the area the industrial Martinoire, where is La Redoute largest employer in the city
(over 2000 employees), which was the first industrial zone of the Northern Department.
These business parks, currently in development, are three in on the territory of the
municipality which must be added the "Union's Zone" which also extends to the
neighboring towns of Roubaix and Tourcoing and is one of the largest construction
projects in France.
Wattrelos is a working town with an important industrial past that has marked the
mentality of its inhabitants. The textile industry in particular has been for a long time
the main economic activity of the city. Subsequently, large mail-order companies
(VPC) as La Redoute and 3 Suisses settled largely in the territory of Wattrelos.
For decades, these industries have resorted to an important work hand immigrants
(Algerian, Marocain, Portuguese ...) unskilled and certainly less expensive. Naturally,
these workers have settled in Wattrelos. Today, there are about 2,600 foreigners on
the territory of the city.
The decline of the textile in the 80s (there is no more factory in operation today) and
the VPC in the 90s led to the elimination of thousands of jobs. Wattrelos now has an
unemployment rate of more than 20%.
Presentation
IMMIGRATION TO FRANCE – LEGAL SITUATION
Link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1pg9IovXgXPUWt6cU10b0p6ZEU/view?
usp=sharing
(string+click or copy this link into your Web browser)
Presentation
Link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1pg9IovXgXPRkNnTVhHamdwanc/view?
usp=sharing
KERKRADE/EURODE
□ Presentation 1:
by Cor Chudy, NL-Kerkrade/Eurode
Link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1pg9IovXgXPeTBVd0F6ZGp5dG8/view?
usp=sharing
□ Presentation 1:
by John Vredeveld, NL-Kerkrade
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1pg9IovXgXPNUMwOG1iN1YxSFE/view?
usp=sharing
Visit of the MINT network to Kerkrade/Eurode
WORK PROGRAM AND TIME
TABLE 2015
In the 4th MINT workshop the city
coordinators and the participants agreed
to the following work program and time
table for 2015:
WORK PROGRAM 2015
Groups under study in the following MINT
workshops in 2015 will be:
■ Elderly Immigrants
■ Immigrant Women
■ Young Immigrants.
MINT will describe the living conditions of
these groups of immigrants in the
countries and municipalities of the MINT
network.
Furthermore the MINT network will
develop a “MINT Model” on “Social
Inclusion of Immigrants” presentation
good and best practices of inclusion. For
this model a list of criteria will be selected
to identify such good and best practices.
One of the MINT workshops in 2015
should be used to present the work of the
MINT network on a webinar.
TIME TABLE 2015
Workshop 5:
February 23 – February 25, 2015
Workshop 6:
June 29 – July 1, 2015
Workshop 7:
October 19 – October 21, 205
Workshop 8 (final workshop):
end of November/early December 2015.
MINT Midterm Evaluation
At this fourth MINT workshop a midterm
evaluation was conducted by the groups
from the municipalities of the MINT
network with the help of a SWOT
analyses.
SWOT Analyses
a) Strength (Summary)
“- learning new methods and approaches
- learning new colleagues within the
MINT
network
working
complex
“immigration”
- learning about very different local
problems with the need for different
approaches
- the presence of many countries gives a
wider contribution to the network
- the members of the network belong to
different countries from the north and the
south of EU and they work with different
migration
models
contexts
and
integration
- the human dimension of the project
- MINT has compared multinational
stakeholders and this enables the
approach
- MINT has been embraced by all
participants with exemplary enthusiasm
and determination to penetrate new ideas
and solutions
- achieved a better understanding of the
other countries in terms of ´Mobility and
Integration`
- good exchange of best practices and
experiences of each partner municipality
- the state of general organization: it´s
well prepared
- partners are stimulated to continue
working in a good atmosphere.”
b) Weakness (Summary)
“- to much concentration on problems as
on opportunities
- due to a missing common EU migration
policy and different national regulations is
it some time difficult to compare the
situation of immigrants in different EU
countries and to work out a common
MNT analytical framework
- the different regulations make it difficult
to measure successful inclusion of
immigrants with a single analytical
framework
- the different situations of immigrants
and legislation make it difficult to develop
new projects in the MINT network.”
c) Opportunities (Summary)
“- MINT could help to integrate small and
medium sized municipalities in other EU
networks focusing on “Mobility and
Integration”
- organizing MINT workshops in other
participating municipalities would improve
the deployment of good practices
- MINT could develop a new model
(MINT Model) according to a bottom-up
strategy
- MINT could produce a compendium of
transferable and applicable proceedings
which would be a valuable contribution
supporting and advising decision makers
at national and local level in their
executive power
- set up a “big” MINT network of
municipalities would an asset.”
d) Threats (Summary)
“- low initiative partners in the network
could hamper the growing of the network
- the difficulties to measure policies and
approaches with a single framework
could cause problems to disseminate all
work that has been done in MINT
- the different situations and legal
systems do not give the opportunity to
transfer good and best practices
- the sustainability of the MINT network is
negatively affected by the limited funding
period.”
COMMUNICATION TOOLS
The partners agreed to produce their
contributions for the website of MINT
according to a draft proposal presented
by the
MINT coordinators
from
Eschweiler.
The partners will focus and provide
information on/for
- presentation of the municipality with
central data and pictures,
- information on immigration and
emigration actually and in historical
perspective, links to relevant institutions
and organization in charge of inclusion of
migrants
- the information and documents of the
partners for the update of the website
should enable an update before 2/2015.
For the MINT flyer the partners agreed to
use the following structure:
- cover (provided by Eschweiler)
- summary on the MINT project (first
version by Eschweiler to be approved
and translated by the partners into their
language
- presentation of the MINT partner
municipalities similar to the website
presentation
- description of the work, results etc. of
the MINT network 2014-2015
- MINT communication: how to get
involved/how to cooperate with the
network and whom to contact.
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MINT
EUROPE 2020
Workshop 5
Eschweiler
May 18, 2015 – May 20, 2015
Summary Report
VENUE
The 5th workshop of the MINT Project
was organized between May 18, 2015
and May 20, 2015 at the Town Hall of
Eschweiler.
PARTICIPANTS
participated in the fourth MINT
workshop in Eschweiler:
- Eupen (Belgium)
- Kerkrade (Netherlands)
- Ortona (Italy)
- Pasman (Croatia)
- Fundacion Maimona (Spain)
perspective 2020.
PROGRAM/RESULTS
MINT Workshop 5
Program
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he
MINT Network municipalities
reported on the living conditions of
elderly
immigrants
in
their
municipalities, regions and countries
and discussed on necessity, attempts
and instruments to improve the living
conditions of this immigrants. In this
report presentations and discussion
lines are documented.
TIME TABLE/WORK PROGRAM
2015
At the beginning of the 5 th MINT
workshop the participants discussed
and decided on an update of the time
table and work program of MINT for the
year 2015. The update can be found
here:
MINT Time Table/Work Program 2015
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PRESENTATIONS
Wolfgang Joussen
Improvement of the Living
Conditions of Elderly Immigrants
In his presentation Wolfgang Joussen
with the help of several indicators
describes the living situation of elderly
immigrants in Germany and EU and
discusses the question, in which fields
and with which approaches and
instruments an improvement seems to
be necessary with regard to successful
integration.
You find the entire presentation here:
Presentation
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Wolfgang Joussen
Interculturality of (Care) Services
for Elderly People – Why and
How?
In his second presentation Wolfgang
Joussen gave an overview on
intercultural dimensions of work for and
with elderly immigrants in the health
and care sector. The presentation can
be downloaded here:
Presentation
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DISCUSSION
Participation of Elderly
Immigrants in Society Today and
Tomorrow – The View of
Immigrants and Practitioners
Who better than immigrants themselves
can explain their expectations, their
needs and their view of integration? In
the 5th MINT workshop the participants
were provided “first hand” information
and views by the head of the Turkish
mosque organization DITIB – the
Turkish State Authority of Religion - at
the city of Eschweiler, Mr. Yalcin
Demirak. Mr. Demirak first expressed,
that in his view the rules on how to care
for elderly people in all countries are
based in their culture and traditions. He
then described in detail rules and
advices for care for elderly people in
Islamic societies. In the third part of his
presentation Mr. Demirak stressed, that
for those elderly Turkish people living
outside their country of origin, the
traditional “care promise” of the young
for the old people more and more
becomes weak due to different living
situations of the young people for
example in Germany as in former times
in Turkey. As a conclusion Mr. Demirak
demands new ways of care for edlerly
Turkish people in Germany as well.
According to his experiences and
knowledge there are no rules of the
Islamic religion which would not allow
such
modifications
or
prevent
professional care as long as some
basic principles are respected.
WORKING GROUPS
In two working groups the participants
of the 5th MINT workshop concentrated
on good and best practices for the
integration and the improvement of the
living conditions of elderly immigrants in
the EU. For this the MINT Matrix
developed as an analytical tool for in
the network was employed.
Olga Galeo, member of the MINT
Network from Maimona (Spain),
summarized the results of the
discussion in her working group as
shown here:
Results WG 1
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The second working group discussed
– how young migrants can be
supported by older immigrants
on their way to job and
vocational training,
– how
knowledge
and
competences
of
elderly
immigrants particularly in the
field of traditional handy crafts
could be employed for new
business activities
– how and with which objectives a
elderly immigrants could engage
for mentoring
– how
organizations
and
municipalities can organize a
fight against isolation of old
immigrants,
particularly
immigrant women
– how new forms of connection
and coordination of volunteer
work and professional care could
help elderly immigrants to avoid
life in a retirement home.
INFORMATION
With regard to new developments Ivan
Jedvaj, MINT representative of Pasman
(Croatia), gave an update on the
situation of immigrants in Croatia. He
provided some new analyses of
migration and immigration/emigration
to/from Croatia, which can be found
here:
Immigration/Emigration Croatia
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MINT
EUROPE 2020
Workshop 6
Eschweiler
June 29, 2015 – July 1, 2015
Summary Report
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VENUE
was organized between June 29, 2015
and July 1, 2015 at the Town Hall of
Eschweiler.
PARTICIPANTS
participated in the 6th MINT workshop
in Eschweiler:
- Eupen (Belgium)
- Ortona (Italy)
- Pasman (Croatia)
- Los Santos de Maimona
These cities t form the MINT Network of
perspective 2020.
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PROGRAM/RESULTS
MINT Workshop 6
Program
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the MINT Network municipalities
migrant women in their municipalities,
regions and countries and discussed on
necessity, attempts and instruments to
improve the living conditions of this
group of immigrants. In this report the
presentations and discussion lines are
documented.
PRESENTATIONS
Wolfgang Joussen
WOMEN AND MIGRATION I
In his presentation “Women and
Migration I” Wolfgang Joussen reported
on
– reasons of immigration of
women to/in Europe in the 20th
and 21th century
– the “old” and the “new”
picture of migration in Europe
– Immigrant female population
in the EU
– dimensions of female immigrant´s social integration
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– employment and unemployment of migration women
– occupations
women
of
migrant
– risk of poverty of migrant
women in the EU
– social, cultural and political
participation
of
migrant
women in the EU.
–
This presentation can be downloaded
here.
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Susanne Goldmann/Jasmin
Rathschlag/Wolfgang Joussen
MIGRANT WOMEN AND
PARTICIPATION –
IG Frauen Stolberg
In
their
presentation
Susanne
Goldmann, equal opportunity officer of
the City of Stolberg, and Jasmin
Rathschlag, and Wolfgang Joussen,
former
neighbourhood
manager,
member of IG Frauen Stolberg, gave an
insight into the process if establishing a
network of women with and without
migration
background
in
a
neighbourhood with special urban,
social and economic development
needs (Stolberg-Velau/Auf der Mühle).
In this neighbourhood the number of
foreign and inhabitants with migration
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background is very high, an in the past
there were enormous social tensions.
With the program “Soziale Stadt/Social
City” a renewal of the neighbourhood
was initiated by the city in 2008. One
task of the renewal process was the
improvement
of
participation
of
inhabitants with migration background
particularly migrant women, who to a
high degree had little or no access to
social and cultural resources and offers.
Furthermore the program´s objectives
aimed to improve German language
competences of migrant women –
mostly of Turkish origin – and their
labour market access, which was very
low.
As in other cities activation of women
with migration background showed to
be rather difficult. For a successful
activation cooperation with well known
institutions like “Kindergarten” and
schools in the neighbourhood showed
good results, so that a first active group
of women started work and promotion
of the network. Meanwhile the founded
women´s interest group – IG Frauen –
has more than 70 members – women
with and without migration background
– and organizes activities and offers for
women in the neighbourhood in a newly
build neighbourhood center – the
KUGEL Culture and Generation House.
The presentation on this “good practice”
for the improvement of participation of
migrant women can be downloaded
here.
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DISCUSSION AND
CONCLUSIONS
After the presentations the following
topics were discussed and conclusions
with regard to the improvement of
migrant women participation have been
drawn by the participants of the 6th
MINT workshop:
– To activate migrant women in a
neighbourhood not used to
participation it is necessary to
involve motivated people with
and
without
migration
background.
– Access to migrant women best
can be organized with the help of
some motivated migrant women.
They mostly are accepted and
can serve as trustful multipliers
due to their similar status and
history.
– For a successful activation of
migrant
women
in
a
neighbourhood support of local
authorities/of the municipality
and cooperation with other
institutions
active
in
the
neighborhood is essential.
– In the case of Stolberg-Velau/Auf
der Mühle cooperation with a
neighborhood school and the
neighborhood
kindergarten
proved very effective due to their
acceptance in the migrant
population as a whole and the
acquaintance of most migrant
women with this institutions.
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– Another very important condition
for migrant women´s participation is the disposition of an
accepted meeting point in the
neighborhood
building
a
“protected area” particularly in
the early phase of activation.
This is due to the well known
experience reported in many
case studies and also here, that
migrant women often have a
limited “geographical map” of
their
living
environment
demanding for known and “safe”
locations and rooms for their
activities close to their home.
– Migrant women´s activation for
participation should not be
organized by desk planning, but
actively should involve their
interests and therefore should be
based on inquiries of migrant
women in the neighborhood.
– Offers for migrant women also
should be accompanied by child
care.
– Participation offers for migrant
women should take easily
accessible and establish informal
learning processes (language, IT
etc.) and not demanding a
membership role.
– Participation offers form migrant
women have to be culture
sensitive.
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MINT INFORMATION PACKAGE
Additional information on several
dimensions of the living conditions of
migrant women in EU and Europe is
provided by an information package,
that has been assembled by the MINT
team Eschweiler. The information
package (PDF-file) is available upon
request (read only, personal use) from
[email protected].
REMARK
Mr. Eshetu Wondafrash, participant of
the 5th MINT workshop, submitted a
comment on the discussion of one
workshop of the last MINT workshop.
Mr. Wonderfrash´s comment can be
downloaded here.
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MINT MANUAL
After intensive discussion the MINT
Network agreed to produce a MINT
Manual serving as a “blue print” for
good and best practices to use the
chances and master the challenges of
mobility and integration in the European
Union.
The content of the MINT Manual as
agreed on can be downloaded here.
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Coordination of the production process
of the MINT Manual will be done by the
MINT group Eschweiler.
Section I, III, IV and V will be worked
out by the MINT group of Eschweiler.
All MINT municipalities will provide a
proposal for the presentation in section
II with regard to their municipalities and
immigration/emigration and integration.
The coordinators will receive these
parts of the MINT Manual by the
partners no later than mid-September
2015, so that a draft of the MINT
Manual can be discussed at the next
MINT Workshop in October 2015.
MINT APP
The participants of the 6th MINT
Workshop welcomed the proposition of
the Pasman Delegation to produce a
MINT App. This MINT App should help
migrants orientation in the MINT
municipalities after their arrival and
provide an easy way for the
communication between the municipalities and their new inhabitants. The
participants agreed that production
process of the MINT App will be
coordinated by the MINT group
Eschweiler and the MINT group
Pasman. The coordinators will soon
provide a proposal of the content of this
MINT App and ask the MINT groups
from the other municipalities for their
specific contributions.
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COMMUNICATION
The participants of the workshop
agreed that instead of a MINT Webinar
MINT should be able to present its
results in Bruxelles to representatives
of the EU Commission. The MINTgroup
Eschweiler will check under which
conditions and with whom such a visit
at Bruxelles will be possible at the last
MINT workshop in November or
December.
The flyer for the MINT Network will be
finished for the last workshop also.
MINT WORKSHOP 8
All participants agreed, that the last
MINT Workshop should be conducted
at Eschweiler and also a presentation in
Bruxelles should be planned after the
workshop in Eschweiler (s. a.) from
November 23, 2015 – November 25,
2015
(subject to be confirmed by the City of
Eschweiler according to available room
capacity and demands with regard to
the intended Bruxelles communication).
MINT ORGANIZATION
The participants of the 6th MINT
workshop decided to establish MINT as
an organization for ensuring continuity
of the work started with the MINT
Network. Furthermore this organization
should strengthen the cooperation
between the MINT municipalities and
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help to attract new MINT member
municipalities.
As the name of the MINT organization
the
participants
selected
after
discussion of alternatives
EIIE Emigration, Immigration and
Integration in EUrope.
The MINT Organization should be
established under French law according
to the French law
“loi 1901”, which
according to the Wattrelos MINT group
can easily be founded without assets
(min. 3 members). Furthermore loi 1901
does
not
demand
a
specific
organization structure, nor is the
founding of such an organization cost
intensive (it is without any cost!). The
MINT Wattrelos group soon will provide
all necessary information to the MINT
coordinators Eschweiler so that all
documents for the foundation for the
MINT Organization EIIE can be
prepared and finally decisions can be
taken at the next 7 th workshop in
October 2015.
The participants finally stated that
objectives of EIIE should be:
– any activity able to solve
problems and enable chances of
migration for/by small and
mediums sized municipalities,
– discussion and exchange of
good and best practices to
promote integration and make
them known and applied by
other SMCs,
– assess and promote work by/in
SMCs to employ chances and
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master
the
migration.
challenges
of
Members of EIIE can be as well
individuals as also organizations and
institutions sharing EIIE´s objectives
and philosophy.
EIIE should attract other municipalities
to join the network and work with it.
Final decision for establishing the EIIE
will be taken on the next 7th MINT
workshop.
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D-52249 Eschweiler
Author:
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MINT
EUROPE 2020
Workshop 7
Eschweiler
October 19, 2015 – October 21, 2015
Summary Report
2
VENUE
was organized between October 19,
2015 and October 21, 2015 at the Town
Hall of Eschweiler.
PARTICIPANTS
in Eschweiler:
- Eupen (Belgium)
- Ortona (Italy)
- Pasman (Croatia)
These cities t form the MINT Network of
perspective 2020.
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PROGRAM/RESULTS
MINT Workshop 7
Program
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the MINT Network municipalities
young migrants in their municipalities,
regions and countries and discussed on
necessity, attempts and instruments to
improve the living conditions of this
group of immigrants. In this report the
presentations and discussion lines are
documented.
MINT INFORMATION PACKAGE
Additionally an informtion package also
has been finished with studies and
reports on the living situation and
integration of young migrants in
Europe. This information package is
available (read only, personal use) on
request from [email protected].
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PRESENTATIONS
Wolfgang Joussen
GENERATION I – GENERATION E
Living Conditions of Young Migrants in
Europe
In his presentation “GENERATION I –
GENERATION E“ Wolfgang Joussen
reported on
– trends
in
the
recent
public/political
debate on
young migrants in Europe
– trends in emigration and
immigration of young people
in EU countries and OECD
– development
of
asylum
seeking of young people in EU
and OECD member countries
– characteristics of the young
asylum seeking population in
Germany in recent years
– indicators
of
the
living
situation of young migrants
regarding
primary
and
secondary education (schooling)
– indicators
of
the
living
situation of young migrants
with regard to labour market
integration
– young
migrants
vocational training
and
– young migrants and poverty
risks.
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This presentation can be downloaded
here.
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DISCUSSION AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
After the presentation the following
issues on the living situation and an
improvement of young migrants into
society
were
discussed
and
recommendations of action drawn by
the participants of the 7th MINT
workshop:
– Can and if how could the
formation
of
intercultural
learning
communities
in
municipalities – for example
run by volunteers - help to
improve schooling and school
success of young migrants?
Positive experiences have
been made with this approach
in Spain with regard to
integration of young gypsies.
– Formation of volunteers as
intercultural guides as a way
for better integration of young
migrants
– Provide more influcence to the
municipalities on schools. The
example of the Germany
Speaking
Community
in
Belgium
shows
that
municipalities can have a
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strong impact on schools to
promote
integration
by
education of young people
due
to
the
GC´s
sole
responsibility for education.
– Forcing young people to
engage
in
„Social
Year
Activities“ for young migrants
– Establish
intercultural
dialogue
rooms
in
municipalities aiming to talk
with each other instead of
talking about each other
– Establish a system for support
of homework of pupils by
volunteers
– The training of intercultural
competences must
be a
mandatory
part
of
the
education of teachers
– Intercultural training should
be a number one topic of the
continuing
education
of
teachers
– Municipalities should employ
intercultural
campaigns
showing success stories of
integration as a tool to
improve the living situation of
young migrants
– Vocational training projects
for your migrants with support
of the national governments
should be conducted and be
(more) viable at the local level
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– Local SMEs should be asked
for an „intercultural opening“
with
the
help
of
an
intercultural coordination on
the local level.
MINT CONCEPT
In two additional panel meetings the
participants discussed on MINT´s
Concept for the improvement of the
living situation of young migrants. The
participants
agreed
that
the
recommendations discussed should
become part of a MINT INDEX as a tool
for self-monitoring of municipalities on
the state of the art of integration also of
young migrants.
The MINT INDEX should also include
the recommendations, experiences and
the accumulated knowledge in the
course of the MINT Project with regard
to good and best practices for smaller
and medium sized municipalities
handling emigration, immigration and
integration in the European Union.
So the MINT INDEX is a tool that
combines recommendations to improve
integration based on the analyses and
studies conducted by the MINT
Network in the course of the project
between 2014 and 2015 with an
instrument for self-evaluation by
representatives
of
municipalities,
organizations and institutions as well as
by citizens based on a scoring system.
The MINT Group Eschweiler will work
out a first draft of the MINT INDEX to
be finalized at the last MINT Workshop.
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MINT MANUAL
In another panel discussion the
participants agreed to place all MINT
results, presentations, communication
products, the MINT Film, the MINT App
and the MINT Index as final report
under the header: „Use the Chances,
Master the Challenges“. The manual
should be made available as well on
the MINT Website as well as CD/DVD
on demand.
MINT APP
With regard to the MINT App the
participants of the workshop discussed
and agreed on a draft of structure and
the content of the app described by the
Eschweiler MINT delegation. The
programming of the MINT App will be
done by the MINT delegation from
Pasman in cooperation with the MINT
coordinator Eschweiler.
The draft can be found here.
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MINT ORGANIZATION
Based on a discussion paper prepared
by the Eschweiler MINT delegation
(downloadable here) the participants of
the
workshop
discussed
about
establishing the MINT organization
EIIE.
As a result they took the following
decisions:
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The Wattrelos delegation is asked to
manage the legalizing process to make
the MINT organization EIIE Emigration,
Immigration and Integration in Europe
an association according to French law
„Loi de 1901“.
The objective of the MINT Association
is to support small and medium sized
municipalities in EU to manage mobility
and integration.
Member of EIIE can be natural and
physical persons as well as active or a
passive members. Passive members
have no right to vote.
The decision making process in the
association
will
be
constructed
according the requirement of Loi de
1901. The highest decision making
board is the general assembly.
The executive board will be constructed
according to the prescriptions of Loi de
1901.
The
association
will
have
representation offices in Germany and
France.
Members of the association have to pay
an annual fee of Euro 10 for natural
persons, Euro 50 for legal entities
irrespective of their membership status
(active/passive).
The „Bureau“ in conformity with Loi de
1901 consists of the President, the Vice
President, the Trésorier and the
Secretary.
Out of the midth of the MINT Network
the following persons were elected
unanimously members of the MINT
Association EIIE representing their
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country and municipalities in the
association (Conseil d´Administration):
Zulma Lopez (SPAIN; Maimona)
Ivan Jedvay (CROATIA; Pasman)
Dasantila Hoxha (ITALIA; Ortona)
Paola Paolini (ITALIA; Ortona)
Peter
Toporowski
Eschweiler)
(GERMANY;
Dr. Wolfgang Joussen (GERMANY;
Eschweiler)
Stephane Thiery (FRANCE; Wattrelos)
Anael Castelin (FRANCE; Wattrelos).
After that the following members
unanimously were elected by the
members of the association for the
„Bureau“
– President:
Dr. Wolfgang Joussen
– Vive-President:
Stephane Thiery
– Trésorier:
Peter Toporowski
– General Secretary:
Dasantila Hoxha.
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MINT
EUROPE 2020
Workshop 8
Eschweiler
November 30, 2015 – December 2, 2015
Summary Report
2
VENUE
was organized between November 30,
2015 and December 2, 2015 at the
Town Hall of Eschweiler.
PARTICIPANTS
in Eschweiler:
- Eupen (Belgium)
- Ortona (Italy)
- Pasman (Croatia)
perspective 2020.
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PROGRAM/RESULTS
MINT Workshop 8
Program
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the MINT Network municipalities in
several working groups
MINT APP
– based on a draft produced by
rge MINT delegation of Pasman
(HR) finalized the version 1 of
the MINT App. As an example
the
version
1
comprises
information
on
Eschweiler,
Ortona and Maimaona. This first
version should serve as a blue
print to work out specific
welcome apps by the MINT
Network
municipalities
themselves with support of the
MINT Project.
– Furthermore a presentation of
the MINT App was finished
supporting the information and
network activities for the MINT
project and the MINT Association
as institutionalized follower of the
MINT project. This presentation
was foreseen as a part of the
presentation of the MINT project
at the Committee of Regions in
Bruxelles. The presentation can
be downloaded here.
(string+click)
4
MINT INDEX
– Based on a draft produced by
the German and Italian MINT
delegations working groups at
the 8th
MINT workshop in
Eschweiler advanced the draft to
a first complete version of the
MINT INDEX. This index at the
same time is a self-evaluation
tool as well as an advance set of
recommendations how to cope
with mobility and integration by
small
and
medium
sized
municipalities in Europe.
– The
MINT
INDEX
recommendations
take
into
consideration
the
following
dimensions:
■ Local Administration
■ Policy/ies
■ Communication tools
■ Accessible public services
■ Housing
■ Common governance strategy
■ Education and training
■ Employment
■ Participation
■ Volunteering.
5
- Another work group at this MINT
workshop prepared a presentation
informing on the MINT INDEX which
also served as information of the
MINT presentation at the Committee
of Regions. This presentation can be
downloaded here.
(string+click)
MINT FILM
For information purposes and to attract
other municipalities a work group
produced the sequences of a MINT
Film. Also this film will be part of the
final MINT Manual which serves as a
blue print for small and medium sized
municipalities in Europe to use the
chances and master the challenges of
mobility inside and from outside the EU
by improved integration strategies and
instruments.
PRESENTATION MINT PROJECT
- Finally the workshop plenum agreed
on a presentation prepared by
another
work
group
which
summarizes the activities, the
presentations and discussion lines
and the results of the MINT project
between the beginning of 2014 and
end of the year 2015. This
presentation which was used also to
inform the Committee of Regions
about MINT can be downloaded here.
(string+click)
6
In the evening of the last day of the 8 th
MINT workshop representative of the
MINT delegations and the MINT
Association informed in detail members
of the Committee of the Regions and of
the NRW State Representation at the
EU about the MINT project and its
results.
MINT delegation at the Committee of the Regions
The Committee of the Regions as well
as the NRW State Representation after
the presentation stressed to support the
initiatives and work of the MINT project
municipalities and of the MINT
Association improving integration of
migrants in small and medium sized
municipalities in Europe.
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Editor:
City of Eschweiler
D-52249 Eschweiler
Author:
Wolfgang Joussen
B-PLAN Büro
Eschweiler.
Eschweiler, December 2015

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