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Researchers from the Euro-Arab foundation discuss the results of the REBEL project with students in Granada

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On the 6th May, researchers from the Euro-Arab Foundation in Granada held a workshop with over thirty-five high school students and staff at the prestigious educational Instituto Padre Suárez in Granada, to discuss the results of the EU funded ReBel project.

The Euro-Arab researcher, Karen L. Hough, presented the results of the ReBel project, which is being conducted along with Visio and Laurea University in Finland and What Design Can Do in Amsterdam. The researchers -with the assistance of Cecilia Pérez López del Moral, an English teacher at the same institute – engaged with the students to discuss pertinent themes related to migrant belonging. The students talked about their experiences in Spanish and English and suggested ways to better improve migrant integration, including the need for quicker recognition of academic qualifications and better measures to fight discrimination.

The students will be awarded certificates for their participation and will be invited to engage in future activities, which will involve policy roundtables in Spain with local, national and international policy makers.

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Jury Selects Finalists for its Redesigning Belonging (ReBel) Project

On March 19th, the Rebel Jury convened at WDCD’s headquarters in Amsterdam and selected 11 finalists from 56 applications received during an open call that invited designers, students, creative makers, thinkers, and innovators to contribute to the ReBel project’s goal: developing innovative integration models and solutions for diverse EU contexts.

An international jury of over 21 experts in service design, social anthropology, migration, and other fields, including the Euro-Arab Foundation as a project partner, selected the finalists from several EU countries. The winning projects will be chosen through a public vote on March 26th.

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Do you want to submit your project to promote the sense of belonging of migrants? We tell you how to do it in a webinar

If you are interested in participating in the European project ReBel (Redesign Belonging) and submitting your project to the Open Call we have just launched, you should not miss one of the webinars where we will explain the context in which this project is launched, tell you more about our research and guide you through the application process. During the webinar there will also be time to ask questions about the applications.

ReBel is a project that aims to explore how design and co-creation can enrich the sense of belonging of people who have had to migrate from their home countries to Europe. The call to participate in this co-design is open to people involved in design, but also to students or creative and thinking people who have good ideas to help us to do so.

So far, we have heard from more than 200 women in Finland, Spain and the Netherlands who have shared their experiences and challenges with us. They have told us how they have to adapt their lives to a new country. They have made it clear to us that belonging is not just about ‘fitting in’ in the host country, it is about feeling valued, included and empowered.Belonging means feeling connected, to people, places and communities. For migrants this involves navigating new languages, cultures and systems while seeking inclusion and understanding.Small actions, such as inclusive activities or access to information, can make a difference.

Get involved in ReBel. Find out how by connecting to one of these webinars. Registrations here.

February 20th, 17h- 18h.
March 7th, 12h- 13h.
12th March, 9h- 10h.

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The Euro-Arab Foundation invites migrant women in Spain to take part in the ReBel project

The Euro-Arab Foundation based in Granada has opened the call to participate in the ReBel (Redesign Belonging) project, which seeks to foster solidarity and a sense of belonging among migrant women by creating spaces for dialogue and co-creation of strategies. To this end, it invites migrant women over the age of 18 of any nationality who have lived in Spain for more than 5 years who want to share their experiences, talk about the challenges and barriers they face throughout the process of settling in Spain, and form part of the team that will design new integration policy strategies, with better services and more opportunities.

The first of the activities to be carried out by the participants will be a meeting, a reflection group, which will take place on 5 November in Granada. All the data of the participants in the activities of the ReBel project will be treated in accordance with the Data Protection Act (GDPR) and the information they provide will be treated with strict confidentiality.

Those interested should send an email to rebel@fundea.org where they will be able to ask any questions they may have, also with regard to the coverage of transport costs, and will be able to register.

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Migrant women will actively participate in the European ReBel project

ReBel, a project funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Program (CERV), begins its work after the inaugural event held on September 9 in Helsinki. Coordinated by the Finnish Laurea University of Applied Sciences, the consortium is made up of the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies, for Spain and under the coordination of researchers Karen Hough and Jusaima Moaid-Azm Peregrina; the international organization What Design Can Do for the Netherlands and the training center Visiopintokeskusvisio, for Finland.

The cornerstone of this project are the migrant women who have been in European host countries for more than 5 years, women who will collaborate with professional designers to create models and solutions for different contexts in the countries where this European project is being developed: Spain, Finland and Holland.

The role of the Euro-Arab Foundation

The Euro-Arab Foundation will lead the preliminary research work package that will lay the foundations of the project and will comparatively analyze other European projects that have also focused on the sense of belonging of migrants. Subsequently, a survey will be elaborated -under European standards- that will collect the experience of migrant women and their feelings towards the reception received. Likewise, Euroarab will be in charge of the so-called “research dialogues” in Spain, which will bring together local participants, migrant women, NGOs and authorities in workshops where they will address different topics such as xenophobic attacks, resilience strategies or barriers to overcome. Co-creative collaboration workshops will also be organized to improve the services offered by both authorities and NGOs, and round tables on migration policies will be organized.

The expected impact of the work developed by ReBel will be seen in the empowerment of migrant women, the improvement of their sense of belonging and the promotion of positive narratives. It will also contribute to a broader understanding among society, inform more inclusive immigration policies and provide practical tools to promote solidarity in these contexts.

The models and solutions created by ReBel will be designed within different contexts in the project countries, with input from a wide range of stakeholders, allowing the generation of new concepts that can be used within different settings in the European Union, including municipalities, national authorities, local communities, NGOs and other actors developing the integration of migrants.

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ReBel, a new project that will foster solidarity and promote a sense of belonging among migrant women

This Tuesday took place the official online launch of the ReBel (Redesign Belonging) project, which aims to address the challenges of our society related to solidarity and a sense of belonging by providing a co-creation model that fosters belonging and empowers migrant women who have been in host countries for more than five years. They will be the cornerstone and will collaborate with professional designers to create models and solutions for different contexts in the project’s development countries: Spain, Finland and the Netherlands.

ReBel has a duration of 20 months and is co-financed with 411,455 euros from the European Commission in the framework of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) and will be coordinated by the Finnish university Laurea of Applied Sciences. Together with Laurea, the project consortium includes the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Education (Spain), the international organisation What Design Can Do (The Netherlands) and the VISIO training centre (Finland). The Euro-Arab Foundation will be responsible for carrying out the research and benchmarking part of local, national and international projects focusing on migrant belonging. The results will be used to develop a survey to elicit migrants’ experiences and feelings of belonging.

Spain to host a meeting of migrant women

Euro-Arab will be in charge of the activities in Spain, which will take place in parallel in the other countries involved, bringing together migrant women with local citizens, NGO representatives, local and regional authorities, in workshops where open dialogue between the groups will be promoted. Migrants will be able to present the obstacles they faced, and continue to face, in integrating into the host society, as well as their resilience strategies. NGOs will also have the opportunity to talk about their experiences with regard to employment, education, hate crimes or xenophobia.

These workshops will then be used to develop improvements that both authorities and NGOs can implement in their day-to-day work. In order to involve policy makers, Euro-Arab will organise a roundtable in Spain, which will also include members of the European Commission. The researchers will draft three policy briefs per country which will be made public and translated into the main languages of migrants to ensure their accessibility.

Upcoming events

On 5 July, WDCD will organise an event in Amsterdam where the project will be presented and in September the official presentation in hybrid format (face-to-face and online) will take place in Finland.