{"id":15925,"date":"2019-02-04T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=15925"},"modified":"2019-02-04T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:40:44","slug":"sofia-development-association-published-the-audit-report-on-the-presence-and-participation-of-third-country-nationals-in-the-life-of-sofia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/sofia-development-association-published-the-audit-report-on-the-presence-and-participation-of-third-country-nationals-in-the-life-of-sofia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia Development Association Published the Audit Report on the Presence and Participation of Third-Country Nationals in the Life of Sofia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15739 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/INTEGRA_poster_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/INTEGRA_poster_1.png 429w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/INTEGRA_poster_1-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/INTEGRA_poster_1-104x146.png 104w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/INTEGRA_poster_1-36x50.png 36w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/INTEGRA_poster_1-53x75.png 53w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/>Sofia Development Association just published <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sofia City Integration Agenda<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> developed in the framework of the INTEGRA project, funded by the European Union\u2019s Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">City Integration Agenda<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> document contains an audit report for the presence and participation of third-country nationals (TCN) in the life of Sofia. It also outlines the three most likely scenarios for the upcoming 3 to 5 years regarding TCN in Sofia: their presence, economic and social activity and integration, the capacity of the local community to accept them and the actions and measures of the local governance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">INTEGRA seeks to improve the process of long-term integration of third country nationals through urban partnership. The project includes 6 partner cities: Sofia, Bulgaria, Prague, Czech Republic, Kosice, Slovakia, Osijek, Croatia, and Rubano, Italy &#8211; all of them participating through city-to-city knowledge and experience sharing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The survey covers the areas of employment and qualification, services for TCN (access to health care, housing, education and training, etc.), security and safety and civic participation. It also aims at identifying recommendations for city\/municipal policies and measures to prepare for and respond adequately to these scenarios. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four thematic posters are published as part of the report, outlining the main highlights in four areas &#8211; &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/integra-eu.net\/images\/New%20Folder%201\/INTEGRA_poster_1p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Labor Market and the Migrants in Sofia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;, &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/integra-eu.net\/images\/New%20Folder%201\/INTEGRA_poster_2p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attitudes towards Migrants<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;, &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/integra-eu.net\/images\/New%20Folder%201\/INTERGRA_poster_3p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Education and Migrants<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; and &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/integra-eu.net\/images\/New%20Folder%201\/INTEGRA_poster_4p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Safety in Sofia and the Migrants<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The infographics present data, trends, opportunities and shortcomings of the integration of TCN in Sofia in a comprehensible and attractive way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All infographics, including those of the other partner cities in the program, are available on the project website &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/integra-eu.net\/campaign\/infographics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/integra-eu.net\/campaign\/infographics.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The full <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sofia City Integration Agenda<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> document can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/integra-eu.net\/images\/City_Agendas\/SOFIA_CITY_INTEGRATION_AGENDA_eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sofia Development Association just published Sofia City Integration Agenda developed in the framework of the INTEGRA project, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}