International Conference
IME-2016: Intercultural Mediation in contemporary Europe: challenges and possibilities
Final Conference of TIME Project
8-9 September 2016 Athens, Greece
Airotel Stratos Vassilikos Hotel
During the last five years immigration and refugee flows into Europe have reached unprecedented high numbers, causing social and political upheaval and bringing significant changes in European societies and cultures. European countries are faced with the challenge to respond to requests for integration, humanitarian aid and asylum amidst the worst crisis in decades. A failure to manage the associated consequences in housing, language, work and welfare could pose serious threats to political stability and social cohesion.
Against this background, Intercultural Mediation (IM) undoubtedly provides a vigorous pathway that could lead the involved parties (migrants and host society members) to a win-to-win situation, thus fostering integration and substantially contributing to the establishment of inclusive European societies. Yet, in order to take advantage of the full potential offered by Intercultural Mediation, significant challenges need to be explored.
The conference is the third in a series of events organized by the Hellenic Open University during the past years. It is addressed to researchers and practitioners of IM and associated disciplines, including among others social workers and researchers who interact with immigrants, members of immigrant communities, personnel of educational institutions, training centers, NGOs and voluntary organizations, employees of public administration and local authorities.
The conference will promote exploitation of the results of project TIME (Training Intercultural Mediators for a Multicultural Europe), which was funded under Erasmus+, aiming to identify and discuss challenges, explore possibilities, exchange knowledge on practices and interventions and present successful IM policies. The main topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:
The conference programme includes:
Researchers, post-graduate students and doctoral candidates are encouraged to submit posters on the conference themes. A special area in the conference site will be dedicated to posters.
Posters in A1 portrait dimensions will be accepted.
Poster authors should submit an abstract of the poster of 1 page maximum in word or similar format.
Total size of poster sheet(s) should not exceed that of A1 paper.
Posters should be submitted to info@daissy.eap.gr
Those interested in attending the conference should fill the participation form and send it to: info@daissy.eap.gr
No attendance fees are required.
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Download here the conference results! in Greek
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