GREEK FORUM OF REFUGEES

http://refugees.gr/about-en/#Networking

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Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

205,509€

22,712 € (Source: Erasmus+,Advocate Europe)

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RISE: The RISE network is a refugee network in created in 2016, led by refugees in different European countries. RISE has approximately 20 network members from 14 different European countries. Each country is represented by a national contact point. The network members have different educational and professional background. Rise represents the authentic voices of refugees, where refugees campaign for themselves. The RISE network aims at reducing discrimination and prejudices towards refugees by deconstructing
old narratives on refugees and creating new
perceptions in societies. The ultimate goal of RISE is that refugees will have a decent life in Europe as full
member of the society, self-determined and recognized as human beings with skills, experiences, ideas and thoughts.

ERMES:The main goal of ERMES project is to involve qualified community interpreters in mental health care procedures to facilitate refugees' access to these services and enhance professionals' practice when treating refugees. In order to reach out to this overall goal, the project is divided into two different phases. The first one was conducted in the course of 2018 and was composed of the design of an official and complete methodology on mediation with refugees regarding mental health care approach, followed by a theoretical training with 10 community interpreters that was based on the toolkit conceived.
In 2019, once the first objective was reached out, the methodology was used to conduct the second phase, composed of a practical application of the training as well as the sensitization of stakeholders through dissemination activities (in which the community interpreters are actively involved), aiming at assisting refugees in recognizing mental health care needs and improving their access to appropriate treatments through the use of mediation (ongoing).

POLITICAL INCLUSION:The project idea we are submitting by this letter revolves around the civic and political inclusion of refugees and migrants. Engaging in this path is a necessary step to undertake in order to make the most of the potential contribution refugees and migrants can bring to their host society, as reiterated by the EU Commission in its Action Plan on the integration of third country nationals . For this reason, based on its experience of mobilizing and empowering the refugee communities based in Athens, the GFR has engaged in a reflexion focusing on their civic and political inclusion. In addition, many of them residing in the country for some time have expressed their will to be actively involved in this field, while the GFR has recently engaged in relevant discussions with the Greek authorities, which are aware that accessing citizenship and exerting the resulting rights is an issue at stake for refugees and migrants.
It is important to distinguish refugees from migrants (including second generation migrants). The
refugee status (as well as the granting of subsidiary protection) does not give the legal possibility of
voting to any election. In the second case, migrants, and their children being raised in Greece, having
acquired the Greek citizenship through naturalization, are entitled to vote but may lack of information
that would support their civic and political participation. It is also worth mentioning that the active
participation in this field goes beyond the right to vote and should be understood in a wider perspective; indeed, non formal participation - through activism, the involvement in civil society organizations, protests and grassroots initiatives, are also impactful means for civic and political expression in the public sphere. The project aims to focus on these two dimensions (formal and non formal participation) as well as the three target groups (refugees, migrants and second generation migrants) previously mentioned.

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• Date	12 Mar 2020	Location	Athens
  Subject	Discussion on the current situation in Greece
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Ylva Johansson
  Portfolio	Home Affairs
  Attending	Ylva Johansson (Commissioner) Alexandra Cupsan-Catalin (Cabinet member) Brian Synnott (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Danish Refugee Council Brussels The Smile of the Child Médecins Sans Frontières International Médecins du monde Belgique