In the following lines you can find a summary of the key activities and achievements of IOM Bratislava, which we were able to carry out in the past year in the field of integration of migrants, assisted voluntary returns and reintegration, counter trafficking, coordination of activities of the European Migration Network and humanitarian transfers of refugees.
The Centre provides free of charge legal, social and labour counselling to migrants with the aim of enhancing the integration of migrants in the society and the Slovak labour market. The Centre provided its clients with 3, personal, e-mail or phone consultations via the information hotline MIC website also constitutes a unique source of information and counselling from different aspects of life and residence of migrants in Slovakia and the website was visited by , visitors last year.
Specialized Counselling Days, i. The events met with a positive response, the complex counselling was used by 40 clients from more than 10 countries, e. The MIC supports its clients in acquiring education, improving qualification or retraining and organizes free of charge open Slovak language courses and courses of socio-cultural integration providing information on different aspects of life in Slovakia โ activities which enhance the integration of migrants in the society.
Financial contribution for education and retraining courses was allocated to 65 clients. Last year, the Centre cooperated with 25 cultural mediators โ representatives of migrants associations and communities in Slovakia. With the support of the Centre, the mediators organize events with the aim of presenting their culture to the public, enhancing social life of their communities, helping their compatriots and creating a space for mutual interaction of the communities and the majority.
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The cultural mediators supported by the MIC organized 28 multicultural and community information meetings. To enhance the activities in communities and strengthen the competencies the MIC organized two trainings for the cultural mediators focused on the outreach work with clients and mediation in practice. Experts introduced their experience and recommendations to the employees of state and educational institutions, NGOs working with migrants and to the representatives of migrant communities.
