On Saturday, 11 February 11 2017, the second National Conference on Local Integration, organised by the Association for Support of Immigrant Workers (ASTI), took place.
This past weekend, ASTI held its second conference on the topic of local integration, under the coordination of the Luxembourg Office for Reception and Integration (OLAI) and the Syndicat des villes et communes (Syvicol).
At the conference, 162 municipal representatives and political decision-makers met for a working and exchange meeting on local integration at the Ermesinde High School and the LTPES in Mersch.
Luxembourg’s Minister of Family and Integration, Corinne Cahen, and Syvicol’s President Émile Eicher opened the briefing session on the areas of responsibility and action of the different actors in local integration. These included various institutional and associative partners, such as the Social Housing Agency (AIS), the Employment Development Agency (ADEM), the Lëtzebuerger Integratiouns- a Sozialkohäsiounszenter (LISKO - Red Cross service), and OLAI, among others.
The conference saw the discussion of the fields of education and extracurricular care, access to affordable rental housing, social assistance, employment, culture and community life, between professionals and communal representatives.
In the second half of the morning, brief presentations and discussions in the form of speed-tables divided into three thematic blocks were proposed to the participants. The result was that local authorities have come up with 24 good practices in Luxembourg promoting access to affordable social housing, setting up a communal integration plan, living together and participating.
The main objectives of the meeting were met, namely to better equip the municipalities with regard to short- and long-term integration needs and to have an exchange of views on the various municipal integration policies.
