Enaro Fall Exchange

Briefing

Friday 27 September 2013

Welcome

Welcome on behalf of the Enaro

Steering Group.

A brief word of introduction about

Enaro.

History

In 1989, the first European Conference on the Reception of Asylum Seekers was organised in Papendal (Holland): Common awareness that we all share the

same problems and challenges in our daily work.

Discussions about different ways of cross-border cooperation between the European reception organisations.

History In Amsterdam The Netherlands in 2002 after

the 7th European Conference in Brussels (2001).

5 organizations founded Enaro: COA the Netherlands Red Cross Denmark Migration Board from Sweden Department for Refugees in the Czech

Republic and Fedasil, Belgium

The start of the exchange programmes.

Member organisations

The number (19 right now) of Enaro member

organisations has grown ever since. Today, 14

countries participate in the fall exchange

programme.

Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary,

Italy, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,

Serbie, Sweden, Switzerland

Structure

Enaro is an informal network.

A steering group with representatives from all member organisations.

Steering group gathers twice a year: spring and fall (closing conference this year in Serbia).

Structure

Presidency: 2011: Slovak Republic 2012: Italy As from 2013: International Secretariat

Responsible for the Enaro Secretariat is AWAS (Marisa Sapiano from Malta)

Goal

The goals of Enaro:Exchange of staff and expertise

to exchange expertise and best practices…

… by sending two staff members per country abroad for 1 week, twice a year.

Fall Exchange

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