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Complementary Pathways: Key factors in future growth
Building a sustainable ecosystem could help complementary pathway programs for refugees thrive and scale, new report finds [...]
Capacity building sessions – fifth session
The fifth session will take place on 02/12/2024, from 10:00 to 11:30, dedicated to the importance of municipal technical cooperation as a tool to improve reception through safe pathways. [...]
The Future of Complementary Pathways: Paving the Way for Growth
Join this webinar where experts will explore the steps that can be taken to unlock further growth and overcome obstacles to scaling these initiatives. They also will outline the key components necessary [...]
Capacity building sessions – fourth session
The fourth session will take place on 25/11/2024, from 10:00 to 11:30, dedicated to the meaningful participation of people with lived experience of forced displacement in the design and implementation of safe pathways and dignified receptions. [...]
Capacity building sessions – Third session
The third session will take place on 18/11/2024, from 10:00 to 11:30, dedicated to the identification and mobilization of local sponsors and collaborators. [...]
Capacity building sessions – Second session
The second session will take place on 12/11/2024, from 10:00 to 11:30 CET, dedicated to the importance of the gender perspective and feminism in local reception and inclusion processes. [...]
Capacity building sessions – First session
In the framework of the COMET project, Fons Català de Cooperació al Desenvolupament organizes five online training sessions dedicated to the design and implementation of safe routes [...]
Interview with Mahyadine
Mayadine is 18 years old and comes from Sudan. He arrived in Turin, Italy, on October 12, 2022 through Pagella in Tasca [...]
COMET factsheet series kicks off
COMET partners are pleased to present the first in a series of fact sheets highlighting existing practices, successes and areas for further development, informed in part by direct experience within the COMET project. [...]
Save the date: Symposium on Education Pathways to the Netherlands
The symposium on 7-8 November 2024 will foster dialogue, discussion, coalition building and partnerships for all involved stakeholders. By bringing in experts, representatives of educational [...]
Prepatory round table: education pathways to the Netherlands
On the preparatory day of the Symposium on Education Pathways to the Netherlands, Justice & Peace explored together with universities and organisations working on inclusive education, the complexities of collaborating with educational institutions during the stakeholder round table. [...]
COMET returns to Geneva
The annual Consultations on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways (“CRCP”, formerly ATCR) brought together a panoply of key stakeholders in Geneva during the first week of June 2024. [...]
Webinar: Complementary Pathways in a Changing Political Context
This webinar aims to provide an overview on the interplay between political context and complementary pathways and, through two case studies from the COMET project, to consider how the changing political context impacted on the planned complementary pathways- [...]
Darfuri Teens Pursue Vocational Education in Province of Turin
In the province of Turin, two 18-year-old boys from Darfur, hosted by separate families, are pursuing a vocational education after successfully passing their third year middle school exams. A milestone celebrated by their foster families. [...]
Considerations for refugees’ transition out of sponsorship and complementary pathways programs
The brief, Supporting Self-Sufficiency: Considerations for refugees’ transition out of sponsorship and complementary pathways programs, highlights common obstacles to a smooth transition. [...]
Complementary Pathways: broader and deeper
STEP (Skills, Talent and Empowerment through Pathways) will focus over the next three years on developing labour mobility programmes in Italy, Spain and Ireland. [...]
Signed protocol to facilitate the arrival of 85 COMET beneficiaries
FCEI is delighted to announce that the long-awaited protocol needed to facilitate the arrival of 85 COMET beneficiaries to Italy was signed at the end of December 2023. [...]
Training Sessions and Support for Community-led Welcome
Reset empowers volunteers to welcome refugees into communities. It was set up in 2018 to coordinate with the growth of the Community Sponsorship movement across the UK and has since then embraced all forms of community-led welcome. [...]
SAFE NATIONAL CONFERENCE Community sponsorship
Two of COMET's partners (FCEI and Forum Réfugiés) are also involved in the AMIF-funded SAFE project which is about to hold a conference in Rome on the topic of community sponsorship.[...]
Global Gathering for Sponsorship
The Global Gathering for Sponsorship, held in Lisbon from 7 to 9 November, brought together 130 experts from 4 continents and 23 different countries.