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FluEqual: Integration of Refugees in Salzburg
Nine organizations in the state of Salzburg came together and started “FluEqual” – a project to improve the situation in towns with refugee housing:
- Amt der Salzburger Landesregierung (State of Salzburg)
- Caritas
- Efdö (Protestant refugee services)
- Initiative Frau & Arbeit (Initiative Women and Work)
- BiBer
- Arbeiterkammer (Chamber of Employees)
- Wirtschaftskammer (Chamber of Economy)
- Regionalverbände Lungau und Oberpinzgau (Regional Organizations of townships)
FluEqual - integration activies at a glance:
- 10 Language courses “German as a foreign language” have been held in the city as well as in the rural regions of Salzburg
- Dialog Processes supporting intercultural life in towns through information, conflict resolution and enhancing intercultural communication
- In the Internet Project a team of 20 asylum seekers created an internet platform for refugees
- Vocational training prepared asylum seekers for their professional life after they are granted. Workshops focussed on different fields of the job market, tools, machinery and materials as well as on awareness of own individual qualification and job chances in Austria. Relevant professional experience was gained by charitable employment of asylum seekers within the townships.
Participants of FluEqual were refugees during their asylum procedure, living in the basic care of state of Salzburg (Grundversorgung). Special attention was directed to the participation of femal asylum seekers. Through childcare, course time and location setting, as well as increasing employment of female trainers the social and professional integration of female asylum seekers could be enhanced.
Integration into today’s society also means getting to know the modern ways of communication, computing and the Internet. The application of the Computer as well as the World Wide Web was a prime element in all courses offered by FluEqual.
Integration into today’s society also means getting to know the modern ways of communication, computing and the Internet. The application of the Computer as well as the World Wide Web was a prime element in all courses offered by FluEqual.
Tolerance and two way learning is the foundation of a co-existence of diverse nationalities in the third millennium. The results and firsthand reports of FluEqual, based on experiences in selected towns that host refugees, have been published at an international conference and a printed manual and on CD-Rom.
FACTS AND FIGURES
Project duration: 1st of June 2005 – 30th of June 2007
Project volume:
- 201 participants
- 2000 class units “German as a foreign language”
- 552 class units IT and team work
- 356 hours learning factories
- individual qualifying courses
- 15.490 hours of charitable employment in townships
- 7 advanced language courses
Locations:
- City of Salzburg
- Region of Puch/Hallein
- Oberpinzgau
- Lungau
Additional Results:
- Internet platform developed by and for refugees: www.asylhilfe.at
- Quality standard criteria for implementation of charitable employment for asylum seekers in townships
- Study of skills and education levels of asylum seekers in Salzburg
- Health Dictionary for asylum seekers german-russian
- Screening of skills for vocational training: competence questionaire (5 MB) and competence portfolio (98 KB)
- Transnational integration manual with reports about different integration activities for refugees in Poland, Italy and Austria
- Study of the legal situation for asylum seekers in Poland and Austria
All documents and information materials you will find in the Download area of this website.
