About the partnership
With large-scale newcomer arrivals in 2015-16 highlighting the limits of conventional approaches to reception/integration and calling for more coordinated responses across different stakeholders and levels of governance, the Urban Agenda Partnership on Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees was created with the goal to improve migrant and refugee inclusion in the medium- and long term.
Members
Member States
- Denmark
- Greece
- Italy
- Portugal
Urban Areas
- Amsterdam (NL, Coordinator)
- Athens (EL)
- Barcelona City Council (ES)
- Berlin (DE)
- Helsinki (FI)
European/ national city umbrella organisation
- Eurocities
- URBACT
Other stakeholders
- Migration Policy Group
European institutions
- European Commission (DG Home as coordinator, DG REGIO, DG EMPL, JRC)
- Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB)
- Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)
- European Committee of the Regions
- European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
- European Investment Bank (EIB)
Concrete actions
01
Recommendations on the protection of unaccompanied minors
02
Towards more evidence-based integration policies in cities setting the agenda, exploring comparable indicators & developing a toolbox for good practice transfer
03
Improving access for cities to EU integration funding
04
Establishment of an Academy on Integration strategies
05
Establishment of an European Migrant Advisory Board