Asylum & migration: Challenges and good practices during the COVID-19 pandemic Eight civil society organisations are discussing on the occasion of the World Refugee Day

Online event

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On the occasion of the World Refugee Day (June 20), the Fund operator of “Local Development and Poverty Reduction” and “Asylum and Migration” programmes in Greece, SOL Crowe and HumanRights360, organizes the online event “Asylum & migration: Challenges and good practices during the COVID-19 pandemic”, on Tuesday, June 22, at 14:00.

This is the first common event of the Fund Operator and the civil society organisations who have been funded by EEA Grants, establishing a series of activities which will have been taken place by the end of the programmes, in 2024.

Programme

14:00-14:10 Welcome

Maria Fola, EEA Grants Adviser, Royal Norwegian Embassy Athens

Epaminοndas Farmakis, Co-Founder, General Manager of HumanRights360, Director of “Local Development and Poverty Reduction” and “Asylum and Migration” Programs in Greece, EEA Grants, 2014 – 2021

Harilaos Faltsetas, Deputy Director of SOL Crowe, Deputy Director of “Local Development and Poverty Reduction” and “Asylum and Migration” Programs in Greece, EEA Grants, 2014 – 2021

14:10- 15:00 “Asylum & migration: Challenges and good practices during the COVID-19 pandemic”

Τhalia Siopi, Project Manager of DIAPLOUS, ARSIS – Association for the Social Support of Youth

Dimitra Kalogeropoulou, Head of Office, International Rescue Committee Hellas

Koumantataki Christina, Social Worker, “A step forward”, Médecins du Monde Greece

Panagiota Paraskeva-Metheniti, Coordination Department of Transit Accommodation Facilities for unaccompanied minors, METAdrasi

Irene Chazapis, project manager HOUSE2, SMAN – Society for the Care of Minors and Youth

Pepi Marioli, Employability Team Leader, Athens Solidarity Center

Alexandris Vakalidis, Special Site Management Support Adviser, NORCAP

15:00-15:20 “The role of school and the access to refugee children during COVID-19”

Katsamori Dora, Project Coordinator of “Schools for All”

Mpogdampeidis Euthimios, School director of the 2nd Gymnasium of Alexandreia

15:20 – 16:00 “Open accomondation centers and Supported Independent Living (SIL) apartments of unaccompanied children and vulnerable asylum seeking women”.

Olga Alexiadou, Psychologist & Local Coordinator of Apartments for Vulnerable Women

Elena Giga, Senior Officer, International Rescue Committee Hellas

Papayianni Evi, Social Worker, “A step forward”, Médecins du Monde Greece

Panagiota Paraskeva-Metheniti, Coordination Department of Transit Accommodation Facilities for unaccompanied minors, METAdrasi

Dimitra Adamantidou, Director SMAN – Society for the Care of Minors and Youth

16:00 – 16:10 Beneficiaries’ experiences

16:10 – 16:30 Closing notes

Event moderator: Ioanna Fotiadi.

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