Information Material “Integration of refugees in Bulgaria” 2019 – The Bulgarian Council on Refugees and Migrants

January 2019

Current statistics on refugees in Bulgaria in 2018
Basic principles of the Ordinance for integration of refugees
An open call for funding by the Ministry of Interior under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
Integration of refugee children into Bulgarian schools
MENAR Sofia Film Fest
The story of a refugee in Bulgaria, founder of the successful online platform

Current statistics on refugees in Bulgaria for the period January-March 2019
Basic principles of the Ordinance on integration of refugees
The Experience of the Vitosha District of the Sofia Municipality in the Integration of Resettlement Refugees
Information Session in Plovdiv Municipality: Local Integration of Refugees: Chance for Development
Refugee employment – a key to the needs of the labor market in Bulgaria
HUMANS IN THE LOOP – the first social enterprise for refugees in Bulgaria
“Mural, mural, on the wall, I’m at home after all” – Visual history of women from Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and Palestine

Latest statistics on the refugees in Bulgaria for the period Jan-Aug 2019
General provisions of the Ordinance on Integration of Refugees and the preparatory stage for the conclusion of an integration agreement
Opportunities for financing refugee integration measures: Call for Proposals under the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund
The nomination of the INTEGRA Campaign of the Sofia Development Association for a prestigious prize in a competition between EU cities for the integration of third-country nationals
Cooperation with municipalities and local authorities: Representative of the UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency in Bulgaria with a prestigious award from the Association of Bulgarian Cities and Regions
Information session in Blagoevgrad Municipality “Local integration of refugees: a chance for growth”
Integration as a chance for improvement of the business climate: MAGNET Network for support of migrant entrepreneurship
Information session on human rights safeguarding

∙ Number of persons granted international protection for the period January – October 2019. How many refugees live in Bulgaria?

∙ Management of the integration. National Council on Migration, Borders, Asylum and Integration

∙ NIEM – All in for Integration. National Integration Evaluation Mechanism

∙ Academic community in support of refugee integration: initiatives in the new academic year

– Coalition meeting on Bulgarian language and literacy training of adult refugees in Bulgaria

∙ Training of teachers working with refugee children

∙ Tolerant society for the integration of asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection

∙ 3 October – European Day of Memory and Welcome

∙ Activities of the Bulgarian Red Cross for the integration of resettled and relocated persons

∙ Provision of comprehensive integration support by Caritas-Sofia and the Council of Refugee Women in Bulgaria

∙Statistics on provided international protection in Bulgaria for the period January-November 2019

∙Opportunities for financing activities related to the integration of refugees and migrants under the Horizon 2020 Programme

∙Refugee Month 2019 Bulgaria

∙Bulgarian and British experience in refugee integration

∙Media and refugee integration

∙Your/Our Europe ?! Strengthening the sense of European belonging to young migrant leaders:

∙The Bulgarian participation in Go Local International Conference in Brussels on Integration of Refugees and Migrants

∙Presentations of the Bulgarian Red Cross and Vitosha District of Sofia Municipality at an International conference in Brussels

∙Regional Seminar “Building Capacity for Work with Refugees”