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Finalised Projects

MAX

Maximizing Migrants' Contribution to Society

MAX was a 3-year project, co-funded by the EU’s Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF). The aim was to improve public attitudes towards migrants by changing the narrative around the immigration discourse and illustrating it with migrants’ unique personal stories.

 Different methods of storytelling were promoted, for instance through journalism, film-making, and social media, and helped create positive messages in the European public sphere. Among other activities, MAX hosted a film festival showcasing films by and for migrants, on the issue of migration, diversity and inclusion.

EMEN

European Migrant Entrepreneurship Network

The project established three Communities of Practice (CoPs) which, for three years, shared information and knowledge and good practice in three areas that are key to supporting migrant entrepreneurship in the short to medium term:

  • Coaching and mentoring (led by Social Impact gGmbH, Berlin)
  • Microfinance (led by THUAS-FINE, The Hague)
  • Professionalisation of migrant entrepreneurs’ associations and diversity management in chambers of commerce (led by UNITEE, Brussels)

The CoPs were open to all organisations supporting migrant entrepreneurs.

They operated continually via online fora and other tools as well as meeting physically (a) at the annual conferences of the whole project, and (b) at workshops arranged on the margins of other events as appropriate to their theme (including events organised by the partner organisations and by the COSME sibling projects).

The project’s immediate target group included migrant entrepreneurship support schemes and organisations, financial institutions supporting migrant entrepreneurs, public authorities, especially at city and regional levels, mainstream business support organisations (notably chambers of commerce), professional business advisers such as small business consultants, accountants, lawyers, advocacy and service NGOs serving migrants, researchers (and students) in this field.

The project partners:

  • AEIDL (European Association for Information on Local Development asbl)
  • Diesis Coop
  • Social Impact gGmbH
  • Stichting Hoger Beroepsonderwijs Haaglanden en Rijnstreek
  • Research Unit Financial Inclusion and New Entrepreneurship (FINE)
  • UNITEE aisbl
  • CECOP-CICOPA Europe
  • ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation)
  • KMOP (Kentro Merimnas Oikogeinias kai Paidiou)
  • REVES (Réseau Européen des Villes et Régions de l’Economie Social aisbl)
  • ALDA (Association des Agences de la Démocratie locale)
  • EURADA (Association Européenne des Agences de Développement) and Eurochambres.