ICT for the Integration of Immigrants and Refugees

Project Integration Exchange is coordinated by the QeC-Earn International Network of which the Fondazione Mondo Digitale is a partner. The project, which is financed by the European Programme INTI, aims to promote the exchange of experiences and identify good practices in order to develop a local/regional dimension in which to implement the basic principles adopted by the Justice and Home Affairs Council in November 2004 and subsequently incorporated in Section A of the European Commission Agenda in 2005.

The project entails the exchange of integration experiences amongst ten partners:

• Amsterdam (District South East) - Holland
• Olmec - England
• Kopint Datorg Foundation - Hungary
• Euroconsult - Italy
• ITD - Barcelona - Spain
• Diputacion Provincial de Huelva - Spain
• Comune di Crotone - Italy
• Comune di Lecce - Italy
• Fondazione Mondo Digitale - Italy
• International QeC-Eran Network (Coordinator)

Planned activities include:

• Identification and development of good practices in local and regional level programmes;
• Development of a local platform for services, information and resources promoting integration;
• Creation  of 8 Local Action Group (Lags) to group the local/regional/national experiences that will be used for the peer review and the development of workshops;
• Creation of an on-line platform acting as a portal to diffuse local services, information and resources;
• Implement good practices through resources and links that will be grouped into case studies and circulated.

Project INTI was launched in August 2007 and will be completed in August 2008. 

In 2007, the Fondazione Mondo Digitale implemented the following activities:  

• Creation of a Local Action Group to identify good practices in terms of immigration and integration in the area of Rome;
• Drafting of a Local Mapping Report entitled “Employment and Induction Programmes” focused on the Italian context with particular reference to the area of Rome;
• Creation of an on-line platform to operate as a portal for the diffusion of local information and resource services;
• Participation in international Peer Reviews.