cec ccme churches’ commission for migrants in europe
Olivia Bertelli

churches’ commission for migrants in europe
Olivia Bertelli

• What does MIRACLE means?
• What is MIRACLE about?
• How does MIRACLE analyse migrants‘ activation and participation?
• What is your contribution?
• What will be the final outcome of the project?
Olivia Bertelli

Interviewers training,
Brussels 5-7 June 2009
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What is MIRACLE about?
• Started in December 2008, co-financed by the EU Fund for the
Integration of Third-country nationals 2007 (DG Justice, Freedom,
Security)
• Understanding and promoting migrants‘ participation and activation within European Churches and congregations
• Promoting the Ecumenical Dialogue Process, analysing and improving relations between Migrants-led Churches and Traditional Churches
• Understanding how we can really be One Church Together
Interviewers training,
Brussels 5-7 June 2009 Olivia Bertelli

Let‘s reflect on:
• What do we mean by „integration“? Who should be integrated where?
• What is a „Migrants-led Church“?
• What is a „Traditional Church“?
• Is migrants‘ integration within Traditional Churches easier than within society?
Interviewers training,
Brussels 5-7 June 2009 Olivia Bertelli

Interviewers training,
Brussels 5-7 June 2009
Olivia Bertelli

Interviewes
Collecting examples of active migrants in congregations, churches and CSOs
Interviewers training,
Brussels 5-7 June 2009
Testing
Methodologies
In order to analyse migrants‘activation and participation in
European Churches and training the trainers
Olivia Bertelli

WinAct Method
WinAct – Winning Migrants as Active Members:
 Started in October 2006 and lasted two years, involving a European network of seven adult education institutions, for researching migrants’ participation in trade unions and political parties
 Funded by the EU SOCRATES Grundtivg programme
 Its aim was to train adult educators for making them conducting workshops for officers of political parties and trade unions, in order to promote the civic and political integration of migrants
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WinAct - MIRACLE
 The training course has now been adapted to the Christian churches’ realities
 For analysing, studying and promoting migrants’ participation and activation in churches, local communities and national contexts
 Articulated in several Modules, each one with 5/6 Exercises
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Brussels 5-7 June 2009 Olivia Bertelli

Intercultural Mediation and
Conflict Resolution Method
 It is the result of a guidebook ’Conflict Resolution through Discussion‘
(2008)
 It focuses on the church‘s context and it is planned for training employees and volunteers in local congregations as well as migrants who are leaders in their own communities
 It aimed at encouraging participants to:
 intervene in multicultural, ethnic based or religious conflicts,
 to develop participants’ mediation approach
 to teach various patterns of conflict resolution
 It is articulated into two different parts with exercises, role plays and group discussions
Olivia Bertelli

MIRACLE Stakeholders
INTERNAL EXTERNAL
Co-beneficiaries
CCME staff
Interviewer s
Trainers
Participants
European
Commission
Members of CCME
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Brussels 5-7 June 2009
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Final Outcome of MIRACLE
• Collection of good (and bad) examples of migrants activation and integration
• Analyisis of the interviews
• Final version of adapted and revised methodologies
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cec ccme churches’ commission for migrants in europe
Olivia Bertelli
© Thomas W. Stephan

DEFAP – Service Protestant de Mission
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden
EKD - Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland
FCEI – Federazione Italiana delle Chiese Evangeliche in Italia
SKIN - Samen Kirk in the Netherlands
Interviewers training,
Brussels 5-7 June 2009
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Interviewer s
• Your contribution is fundamental for realising an overview of good experiences of migrants actively participating in European Churches
• First-generation migrants active in Christian communities, churches,
CSOs, selected by your respective national co-beneficiary
• You will conduct two interviews, record them, then transcribed and translated into English
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Brussels 5-7 June 2009
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Doris Peschke
Olivia Bertelli
Alessia Passarelli
Emmanuel Kabalisa Torsten Moritz
Thomas Stephan
Lilian Tsourdi
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Brussels 5-7 June 2009
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Norbert Cyrus – WinAct trainer, University Oldenburg, Germany
Beatrix Bauer – WinAct trainer
Marja Liisa Laihia – Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Why do we work with trainers?
The MIRACLE project adapts existing methodologies in order to analyse the participation and activation of migrants within
Christian churches and communities.
The trainers have now adapted those methods for the MIRACLE project and will work with us for testing them in the context of
Christian congregations.
Interviewers training,
Brussels 5-7 June 2009
Olivia Bertelli

Participants at the national workshops and regional meetings:
Finland
Germany
Italy
The Netherlands
NATIONAL
WORKSHOPS
25 participants each
150 participants overall
France
Sweden
REGIONAL MEETINGS
25 participants each
Interviewers training,
Brussels 5-7 June 2009
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