On 2, 3 and 4 April, the first focus groups within the framework of the European MI-ICT project took place at the Euro-Arab Foundation. The event was attended by migrants, researchers, civil servants and NGOs from the sector in order to identify and understand the challenges of immigrant integration. The MI-ICT project aims to facilitate the integration of migrants and refugees through the development of tools based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

The Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Education has held a new training course on radicalisation and violent extremism. The course, organised as part of the TRAINING AID project, will also be held on 28 March in Paris and on 11 April in Valencia.

The Euro-Arab Foundation brings together a large group of researchers, prosecutors and front-line professionals from the European police and judicial field, within the framework of SAT-LAW, a research project which deals with judicial coordination and cooperation for criminal investigations in the European Union. The SAT-LAW project is developed by a consortium involving the Euro-Arab Foundation and the University of Granada together with institutions and research centres from 8 European countries.

The symposium has been developed in the Sheffield Institute of Education on november 13th. Its aim is to explore a diverse set of themes connected to the overall objetives of the MIICT project. This is reflected by our speakers who cover issues related to migrant integration from a number of disciplinary perspectives.

From the 22nd to the 26th January, the course “Trainers of Trainers” will take place in Granada under the European project DERAD (“Counter radicalization through the rule of law”), in which the Euro-Arab Foundation participates together with seven other European institutions.

TAKEDOWN will develop responses to criminal threats by using a multidimensional approach including social, psychological, economic and cultural aspects, as well as prevention activities and response approaches.