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Photo exhibition "I'm not only an unaccompanied foreign minor"

28/03/2026

The Fedasil Pondrôme reception centre will host a photo exhibition featuring the work of unaccompanied and accompanied minors. The images were created over an eighteen-month project led by CIDJ Rochefort–Beauraing. The exhibition provides insight into the daily lives, experiences, and identities of the young participants. The event is free, open to all, and offers an opportunity to meet the creators.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
unaccompanied minors
accompanied minors
photo exhibition

EMN Hungary Conference: Different regional solutions to the challenges of temporary protection

25/11/2025

The EMN Hungary Conference will explore how EU temporary protection frameworks are evolving and how these changes are implemented in practice across Central Europe. It aims to connect high-level policy developments with on-the-ground realities for displaced persons and host communities. The conference will examine potential transitions from the EU temporary protection regime and highlight regional practices, challenges, and successful approaches.

Theme:
Temporary protection
Type:
Event
Keywords:
temporary protection
Central Europe
displaced person
host community

EMN Estonia Conference: Beyond Temporary: Building for the Future

08/04/2025

The conference will explore the future of Ukrainian displaced persons beyond temporary protection and will bring together policymakers, experts, and stakeholders to discuss strategies for policy transitions, address employment related integration challenges, share best practices, and examine the role of the diaspora in supporting long-term solutions.

Theme:
Integration
Temporary protection
Type:
Event
Keywords:
beneficiary of temporary protection
Ukraine

EMN Finland Conference: Between integration and return: Employment and integration of beneficiaries of temporary protection in Finland and Europe

18/10/2024

The 2024 national conference of EMN Finland shall examine the state of play as well as the future prospects of the situation of Ukrainians in Finland and in EU countries. The conference aims to address the challenges of integration in a situation where beneficiaries of temporary protection find themselves between two countries. The conference seeks to support these persons in the limbo between integration and return.

Theme:
Integration
Temporary protection
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
beneficiary of temporary protection
Ukraine
legal status
voluntary return

Deadline to participate in Fedasil call for projects 2025

10/10/2024

Fedasil has a budget for financing specific projects relating to the reception of asylum seekers (and other reception beneficiaries). The Agency has launched its call for projects for the year 2025. In 2025, the focus will be on projects that focus on support, activation, and housing.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
call for projects
applicant for international protection
support
activation
housing

EMN Luxembourg Conference: Mental health and well-being of front-line (reception) workers

24/09/2024

In their jobs, front-line workers sometimes have to deal with the trauma of applicants for international protection and are confronted with conflicts, tensions and sometimes personal safety risks. Hence, they are exposed to a high risk of personal stress levels and burnout, moral injury, depression, trauma, and other mental health challenges. This conference aims to bring together stakeholders at national and EU level to share experiences, challenges and practical solutions in this field.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
staff wellbeing
frontline worker
stress
burnout

EMN Germany Workhop on Ukrainians in the EU: Accessing rights under the Temporary Protection Directive and the way forward

30/05/2024

The workshop will shed light on the challenges and best practices of the application of the Temporary Protection Directive in Germany, the Netherlands, and Lithuania. The participants will also discuss future scenarios to ensure the continued protection of Ukrainians.

Theme:
Temporary protection
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Temporary Protection Directive
implementation
Ukraine

Expert Conference on Multistakeholder models in the context of reception of international protection applicants

16/05/2024

The Expert Conference, that is jointly hosted by Belgium’s Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil), and the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), in cooperation with the Migration Policy Institute Europe (MPI Europe), aims to explore multi-stakeholder strategies in three specific areas: reception, information provision, and pre-integration.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
multistakeholder approach
reception
information provision
preintegration

EMN-OECD Webinar on the labour market integration of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine

13/05/2024

This webinar will showcase key findings from the new joint EMN-OECD Inform on the "Labour market integration of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine". These findings will be contextualised by drawing insights from other international organisations and highlighting specific approaches and measures adopted by different host countries.

Theme:
Integration
Temporary protection
Type:
Event
Keywords:
labour market integration
beneficiary of temporary protection
Ukraine

MPI Europe Webinar: Ukrainians in the EU: What is next after the Temporary Protection Directive?

29/02/2024

On the occasion of the second anniversary of the activation of the TPD, this Migration Policy Institute Europe webinar will discuss what will happen when the TPD expires in a year’s time. The findings from comparative research in Latin America, Turkey, and Europe on approaches to temporary status and the arc of public support for displaced persons will also be presented.

Theme:
Temporary protection
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Temporary Protection Directive
Ukraine

Deadline to participate in Fedasil call for projects 2024

22/08/2023

Fedasil has a budget for financing specific projects relating to the reception of asylum seekers (and other reception beneficiaries). The Agency has launched its call for projects for the year 2024. In 2024, the focus will be on projects that focus on the activation and participation in society of asylum seekers staying in the reception network.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
call for projects
activation policy
employment

International event on sustainable asylum reception (2 days)

28/04/2023

The International Knowledge Platform of the Dutch Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) organises a two-day hybrid international event on sustainable asylum reception. Based on presentations, lectures, and inspiring examples, discussions will focus on the asylum reception centre of the future.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
reception centre
sustainable reception

Fedasil Webinar on the Community Sponsorship program to set up a sustainable reception model for resettled persons

17/03/2023

Through this Webinar, Fedasil aims to encourage partners to embark on the path of Community Sponsorship in order to ensure the continuity of the resettlement program.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
community sponsorship
resettlement

Fedasil Webinar on Partnerships to set up a sustainable reception model for resettled persons

17/03/2023

Through this Webinar, Fedasil aims to encourage associations and municipalities to join a flexible framework to establish unique partnerships in order to ensure the continuity of the resettlement program.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
partnership
resettlement

Learning & networking moment for solidarity cities and municipalities

14/03/2023

Opening a reception center in your municipality can raise many questions. On 30 March, Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen organizes a learning networking moment for solidarity cities and municipalities to discuss the challenges and best practices related to the opening of a reception center.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
solidarity
reception centre
cities

MPI Europe webinar: Ukrainian Displacement in Europe, One Year Later

07/02/2023

This MPI Europe webinar aims to examine what has been done to foster the integration of those staying long(er) in host societies, to organize first reception services for any additional newcomers, and to prepare the return of those set on going home and rebuilding Ukraine.

Theme:
Temporary protection
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Ukraine
Temporary Protection Directive

EMN Netherlands Conference: Flexible reception capacity in the Netherlands and in Europe

08/12/2022

How can we create flexible housing capacities for asylum applicants and beneficiaries of international protection? This conference will gather national and international experts to discuss challenges, good practices and lessons learnt when it comes to dealing with pressures on the asylum housing system, both in the context of international and temporary protection.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
housing

Fedasil: Review 2019

07/08/2020

In its Review 2019, Fedasil presents the most important events and figures on reception, voluntary return and resettlement of the past year. The overview shows an increase in the number of people entitled to reception and for whom more than 5000 temporary places were opened in 2019.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
News item
Keywords:
asiel

EMN Belgium Annual Policy Event 2019

06/11/2019

On 10 December 2019, EMN Belgium organises its annual asylum and migration policy event in which recent national and EU developments in the field of international protection, legal migration and integration and irregular migration and return will be discussed.

Theme:
Integration
Reception
International Protection
Economic migration
Citizenship & Nationality
Irregular Migration
Return & Readmission
Smuggling & Trafficking
Type:
Event
Keywords:
annual EMN policy event

Odysseus Academic Network Debate : "Resuscitation Dublin: A sustainable reform of asylum policy?" (Brussels)

Odysseus Academic Network logo

03/06/2016

What future for the Dublin system ? Will this new regulation make it more efficient, fair and respectful of fundamental rights ? These questions will be addressed during the debate organized by the Odysseus Academic Network.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
asylum processing
Dublin Regulation
relocalisation

MPI Webinar on Asylum reception in the European Union: A flexible model for the future?

Logo MPI

05/04/2016

This MPI webinar aims at discussing what it takes to set up and manage an asylum reception system that can simultaneously meet the demands of flexibility, quality, and efficiency.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
webinar
MPI

Last day to see Transit51 Foto Exhibition: Lifes of women in "Petit Château"

Poster of the exhibition

12/03/2013

Fedasil invites you to discover the daily life of women residing in a reception centre for asylum seekers. The Transit51 foto exhibition is to be seen from 8 to 31 March in Brussels.

Theme:
Reception
Type:
Event
Keywords:
reception centre
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