One-Stop-Shop
What is the DREAMM project?
DREAMM stands for “Develop and Realise Empowering Actions for Mentoring Migrants”.
It is about “New ways of bringing together newly arrived Third-Country Nationals and local communities”.
Integration between newly arrived migrants coming from countries outside the European Union and members from the local communities is still a challenge for the EU. Eight organisations from Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Italy, and Malta, with different field migration expertise, are operating together to experiment with various community actions to help migrants integrate.
What does the project want to reach?
This project intends to reach a better mutual understanding of each other’s values and behaviours, foster a sense of belonging to a community, mitigate stereotypes, discrimination, xenophobia, and racism, make newly arrived migrants capable of accessing local services supported by an inclusive community network.
How can the project achieve its goal?
One powerful tool for local development and social change has proven to be volunteering. However, to become an effective and structured practice, volunteering needs management and professional skills that are unclear, informal, and poorly used in the migration field.
With the help of volunteers and professionals, DREAMM promotes peer-to-peer learning events and joint social activities. To do this, a dedicated orientation and integration service is implemented, i.e., the DREAMM One-Stop-Shop.
Which actions are implemented?
Joint community actions comprise of
- information
- orientation
- learning events
- social activities
empower newly arrived migrants and help members from the local communities – with or without migration experience – to achieve a mutual integration process, as well as facilitate communication between migrants and local public and private services providers.
What is the DREAMM One-Stop-Shop?
With the DREAMM project, we intend to set up a “One-Stop-Shop” model of service where newly arrived migrants coming from countries outside the EU can find information and orientation to their concrete needs in terms of access to public and private services all in one place.
The DREAMM One-Stop-Shop is a hub and first contact point where newly arrived migrants and members from the local communities meet to achieve target oriented activities.
What are the DREAMM One-Stop-Shop activities?
The One-Stop-Shop consulting activities are based on migrants’ individual needs and its target include gender-balanced vulnerable groups, such as asylum seekers and refugees.
Concretely, it
- provides general information about access to public and private services (health, housing, education and training, social activity)
- provides general information on the legal status of migrants
- orients migrants to DREAMM activities, such as language and communication courses, social activities, and fun workshops to familiarise with the local context
- helps migrants assess needs and priorities and make friends and become part of the DREAMM community
The “One-Stop-Shop” is a place of social exchange and intercultural interaction
Volunteers who would like to have an experience as DREAMM Mentors can join the DREAMM community any moment along the process.
DREAMM Mentors volunteering in the DREAMM project will receive a certificate at the end of their participation.
Who is involved in the DREAMM community?
MIGRANTS
Migrants as citizens coming from countries outside the EU – with particular attention to vulnerable migrants, such as women and refugees – willing to become a mentee
DREAMM MENTORS
Individuals with strong predisposition and willingness to engage in innovative relationships, share background and skills in the interest of the community. DREAMM Mentors participate in the development and implementation of social activities with migrants under the guidance of DREAMM Lead-Mentors.
DREAMM LEAD- MENTORS
Professionals with experience in the field of migration and/or volunteering, acting as a bridge between migrants and volunteers, and willing to orient and supervise DREAMM Mentors.
DREAMM COMMUNITY
Involvement in a joint community action to implement joint activities for the benefit of a new community developing a more inclusive culture.
IF YOU’VE RECENTLY MIGRATED AND ARE ADJUSTING TO THE NEW REALITY COME AND VISIT US IN OUR DREAMM ONE-STOP-SHOP
Our DREAMM One-Stop-Shop is a first contact point where we can help you to get
- general information about the access to public services (health, housing, education and training, social activity)
- general information on legal status for migrants
- information about our DREAMM activities such as language and communication courses, social activities and fun workshops to familiarise with the local context
- assistance for your needs and priorities making friends and becoming part of a DREAMM community
Cultural and language mediation can be provided.
DREAMM is a European-funded project
DREAMM stands for Develop and Realise Empowering Actions for Mentoring Migrants.
It offers ‘New ways of bringing together newly arrived migrants from countries outside the EU and local communities’.
IF YOU HAVE TIME AND WANT TO BE ACTIVE AS A MENTOR FOR MIGRANTS YOUR CONTRIBUTION CAN MAKE A CHANGE
COME AND VISIT US IN OUR DREAMM ONE-STOP-SHOP
Our DREAMM One-Stop-Shop is a social hub bringing together members from the local communities – with or without migration experience – and newly arrived migrants coming from countries outside the EU to encourage and experiment new ways of becoming a community.
The DREAMM One-Stop-Shop is the first contact point where DREAMM Mentors and migrants can get to know each other.
A One-Stop-Shop
- provides general information about accessing to public services
- provides general information on legal status for migrants
- orients migrants to DREAMM activities such as language and communication courses, social activities and fun workshops to familiarise with the local context
- helps migrants assess needs and priorities
- offers an opportunity to make friends from other parts of the world
COME AND HELP US, BECOME PART OF THE DREAMM COMMUNITY
DREAMM is a European-funded project
DREAMM stands for Develop and Realise Empowering Actions for Mentoring Migrants.
It offers ‘New ways of bringing together newly arrived Third-Country Nationals and local communities’.
Eight partners from Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Italy, and Malta, with different field migration expertise, operate together to experiment a community action made of learning events, to provide participants with needs-based language, civic and intercultural communication knowledge and skills and joint social activities.
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