National seminars have now been held, please find all the minutes and reports in the respective links on the menu.

The final conference has been held in Barcelona, March 10th-11th 2011.

Please visit the Conference web site.

Note on the Transnational seminars

In each seminar, expert participants will discuss the national situation, as well as the possibilities to promote the implementation of new practices. We will very soon post the detailed programme and participants.

Transnational seminars are part of the second work package of the Bridge IT project. In fact, they are made to enhance discussion and debates over the guidelines on how to roll out ICT solutions for social integration and cultural diversity in Europe.

The inventory of practices will serve as a basis for providing guidance to those who are interested to be involved in the further development of ICT based solutions and approaches targeting immigrants needs.
Three guidelines (or a three-sections single guideline) will, on each of the selected themes, propose recommendations, “do and don’t” to those key players in Europe who wish to make a better use of ICT for immigrants’ social integration and cultural diversity.

The guidelines should provide orientations for:

• Re-using innovative approaches, components that might help them to improve their own practice (for instance how to include multilingual functions in your own application, how to improve the interface in order to cope more adequately with multicultural requirements, how to include co-production content solutions to have immigrants more involved)
• Implementing transnational or national duplication of an approach coming from another region or another country. (for instance, how a local authority in Italy can import and adapt an online education service targeting adult immigrant learners, that is developed at local level in the UK? How an administrative information service directed to migrants from the employment service of the Land X in Germany can be duplicated by the employment service from the Land Y in the same country? How to reuse/adapt the ICT enhanced approach of the company Y promoting the diversity of its workforce throughout Europe in the company Z?)
• Turning a successful local / relative small initiative into a project developed at a larger scale with a greater impact increased (for instance how to involved all the relevant actors of the value chain, and how to involve public authorities in particular? How to draft a sustainable business case?)
• How to identify partners, relevant stakeholders from the value chain

Partners will jointly define a methodological framework for the guidelines. The three thematic seminars, gathering the members of the network and"owners" of good practices, will take place to feed the guidelines. Three sets of thematic guidelines, possibly gathered in an integrated document, will be produced and distributed to relevant key players in Europe.