asylkoordination österreich

Sobre nosotros

Austria Asylum Coordination, founded in 1991, has set itself the goal of supporting organizations, initiatives and volunteers in the counselling and care of refugees.
Since 1991, we have been working to connect refugee NGOs and dedicated individuals, creating political pressure and creating public awareness through qualified information.
Austria Asylum Coordination specialises in anti-racist educational work. We offer workshops, role plays, seminars and lectures on racism, discrimination, asylum and migration.
What we do
• Austria Asylum Coordination networks: 57 UMF care centres, 11 intercultural psychotherapy centres for people after extreme trauma, 37 patron groups from connecting people, the Agenda Asylum ...
• Austria Asylum Coordination publishes four issues each year of our magazine asyl aktuell, with information sheets, a website, background information for journalists, and 63 lectures in adult education in 2016, ...
• Austria Asylum Coordination organised 41 seminars in 2016 for employees of NGOs and authorities, as well as 73 school workshops in that year ...
• Austria Asylum Coordination intervenes in the case of problems in the asylum procedure or accommodation, through discussions with politicians and civil servants, through statements on draft laws, through campaigns ...
Focus:
• UMF-Unaccompanied Minor Refugees: Our UMR activities focus on networking childcare facilities, research, media work, drafting opinions on draft legislation and lobbying for improving the child rights situation of the refugee minors in Austria.
• Connecting People: connecting people is a sponsorship project for unaccompanied refugee minors, initiated in 2001 by Austria Asylum Coordination. Connecting People looks for volunteers to support an unaccompanied refugee minor. The focus is on building a long-term stable relationship with a young person and giving them support in their difficult everyday life. Giving time, emotional attention, listening, simply 'being there' are the top priority.
• NIPE - Network for Intercultural Psychotherapy after extreme trauma: Expert exchanges, quality assurance and the common advocacy of dealing with refugees which are curative rather than retraumatic are the main topics of NIPE.
• ECRE (European Council on Refugees and Exiles) / AIDA (Asylum Information Database): The AIDA (Asylum Information Database) project has two main objectives: to provide civil society at national and EU level with information material to facilitate the implementation of the amended asylum directives and setting up the Common European Asylum System; to provide independent, useful and up-to-date information to the media, researchers, lawyers, legal practitioners and the public on asylum practice in the EU Member States; The overarching objective of the project is to contribute to improving asylum policies and practices in EU Member States and to improving the situation of asylum seekers in the EU by promoting high standards of protection and fair procedures in the nation states(reception, procedures, detention, etc.).

Herbert Langthaler is responsible for public relations, school workshops and lectures at Austria Asylum Coordination.

On request we can offer other net participants advice, give a presentation, and provide up-to-date information and contacts in the field of our work.