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Information Centre for Newcomers invites volunteers to apply!

then we – the Information Centre for Newcomers team – await you! Don’t hesitate and e-mail us: brivpratigie@integration.lv Let our cooperation begin! The activity of the Information Center for Newcomers within the framework of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund is ensure...

The first episode of the Infomation Centre for Newcomers (ICN) News is here!

The activity of the Information Center for Newcomers within the framework of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund is ensured and developed by the NGO “Shelter “Safe House””. The centre is co-funded by the European Union. Grant Agreement No. PMIF/12/2020/3/01.

In the next two and a half years society “Shelter “Safe House”” will continue to provide support to third-country nationals in the field of integration in Latvia

In the next two and a half years society “Shelter “Safe House”” will continue to provide support to third-country nationals in the field of integration in Latvia. Society “Shelter “Safe House”” acquired the right to provide the Service for Coordination and Information Centre for Newcomers in round ...

In the next two and a half years, the “Information Centre for Newcomers” will support the process of integration of third country nationals in Latvia, and will also launch an educational campaign

Like in other countries of the world in Latvia human trafficking in persons is actively fought every single day!

We are thankful to British Embassy in Riga for collaboration in this very serious field! World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

The first episode of the Infomation Centre for Newcomers (ICN) News is here!

The support project for persons under international protection has closed

The project "Support Activities for Persons Under International Protection II", which the Society "Shelter "Safe House"" has been implementing since 2 January 2018, closed on 30 June 2020. The purpose of the project was to promote the inclusion of persons under international protection in Latvian so...

The integration training course about Latvia is concluded by two groups of persons under international protection

Both groups started the integration course simultaneously on 5 June and completed on 15 June. In each group, the course was mastered by 8 students who came to Latvia from Azerbaijan, Colombia, Vietnam, Yemen, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran and Cameroon. In both groups, the participants were interested in...

Doors Open Days of the Information Centre for Newcomers to be Held in all Regions of Latvia

The Information Centre for Newcomers (ICN) hereby informs that Doors Open Days will be organised in all regions of Latvia during the World Refugee Week. The visitors will be able to obtain information on the activities of the ICN, to spend time together in the moods of Midsummer Eve, to meet each ot...

Training courses for persons under international protection will be resumed

The Latvian language mastering training course provides the project target group with an opportunity to acquire the Latvian language knowledge and skills necessary for work and everyday life while developing the main language mastering skills: reading, speaking, writing, listening and use of grammar...

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Riga City Council will give grant benefits also to foreign students who have remained in Latvia

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Riga City Council will give grant benefits also to foreign students who have remained in Latvia. Only those foreign students who, due to an emergency situation, are unable to provide for their basic needs and whose declared place of residence is in Riga can remotely tu...

Information for foreign students which have remained in Latvia and study remotely during circumstances of spread of Covid-19

If you are left without means of subsistence while in Latvia, and your basic needs cannot be met otherwise, the social services of the local government where you have declared your place of residence may help you Please be ready to prove this fact by documents submitted to the social service. Befor...

Government extends emergency to May 12

In order to limit the spread of Covid-19, on April 9, 2020, the Cabinet of Ministers made amendments to the Order No. 174 "On Declaring a State of Emergency", which extends the state of emergency in the Republic of Latvia until 12 May this year. Taking into account the decision, Information Centre ...

Information about COVID-19

Regarding the Declation of Emergency Situation Recommendations for family members of a person infected with COVID-19 infection; Recommendations regarding measures to be undertaken in the person’s place of residence following the transfer of such person with a confirmed COVID-19 infection to h...

Persons under international protection can continue learning Latvian remotely

Society “Shelter “Safe House”” informs that, taking into account the state of emergency declared in the country, integration courses and courses of Latvian within the project “Support Activities for Persons Under International Protection” for now have been suspended for an indefinite period of time....

Attention, please! Notice of the Information Centre for Newcomers on changes in customer service

Taking into account the decision made on March 12 by the Crisis Management Council of the Latvian government on declaration of emergency situation due to global situation caused by Covid-19 and the possible risks in Latvia, Information Centre for Newcomers suspends customer service in person for the...

Migrant Talent Garden activities in all partner countries

Source: https://migrantgarden.eu/study-visit/info-sessions-all-partner-countries/ During the last months of 2019, Migrant Talent Garden organised communication events in Croatia, Bulgaria, Greece, Latvia, Iceland, Norway and Lithuania to showcase the project`s goals and results so far. On the 11t...

In February, the integration training course was learned by persons under international protection from Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and India

From 12 to 19 February, the integration training course about Latvia has been mastered by nine persons under international protection in total – one woman and eight men – from Russia (3), Iran (3), Afghanistan (1) and India (2), informs Zanda Rudene, the head of the project “Support Activities for P...

Discussions about newcomer integration will take place in Liepāja on 18 February

The Information Centre for Newcomers (ICN) informs that a thematic meeting “Integration of Newcomers in the Local Governments – Strategy of Liepāja City” organised by the Intersectoral Dialogue Platform will be held on 18 February of this year in Liepāja. Venue: Rožu Street 6, Liepāja Time: Tuesda...

Last year, 138 persons under international protection took part in the integration course and 68 persons learned Latvian

Since 2 January 2018, the Society “Shelter “Safe House”” has been implementing the project “Support Measures for Persons under International Protection II” in order to facilitate the integration of the persons under international protection. The project includes an integration course, as well as a L...

Last year, more than a thousand foreigners have sought assistance at the Information Centre for Newcomers

According to the data summarised by the one-stop agency, Information Centre for Newcomers (ICN), over the 12 months of last year it has provided almost one and a half thousand consultations for 1112 foreign citizens* which have arrived in Latvia from 55 non-EU countries: 921 citizens of the third co...

A project to support immigrant business completes its first year

2019 has been a fruitful year for the project Migrant Talent Garden, which saw researching entrepreneurship schemes in Europe and designing networking plans between partner organizations, local entrepreneurs and young migrants interested in taking part in the business incubator. The project was imp...

About Migrant Talent Garden Business Incubator for Newcomers

There is a lot of work that goes into starting up a business and turning it into a profitable success. While that success won’t happen overnight, the use of a good business incubator program to help cultivate an idea in its early stages can go a long way toward helping it grow quickly with strong ro...

Two Groups of Persons Under International Protection Will Complete the Integration Training Course About Latvia

Society “Shelter “Safe House”” informs that on 19 December the integration training course organised under the project “Support Activities for Persons Under International Protection II” will be completed by two groups that began the course in November of this year. Both groups included 24 persons un...

Join the team of volunteers of the Information Centre for Newcomers!

“As usual every month, also in December volunteers of the Information Centre for Newcomers (ICN) organised a joint meeting to share ideas, experienced emotions and accomplished works. However, this meeting was special, because we also planned, how to improve the voluntary work organisation system in...

Business Incubator for Newcomers

If you are 15 – 29 years old foreigner,If you have started to think about your own business,You have ideas, but you don`t know where to start - Business incubator will give free-of-charge support to start your own business! To submit your participation, please contact us: +371 25565098 (I-V 9...

At the end of November, two groups start an integration training course about Latvia

Zanda Rudene, the Support Measures for International Protection Persons II project manager, informs that two training groups, with a total of 24 international protection persons studying, will start an integration training course about Latvia at the end of November. She notes that persons from Russi...

Information Centre For Newcomers Open Afternoons Will Take Place in All Regions of Latvia

“This time the common theme of Open Afternoons of the Information Centre for Newcomers (ICN) is networking and inter-cultural relations, so that visitors can make mutual acquaintance, enjoy the inter-cultural environment and participate in various activities and games that promote inter-cultural rel...

In October, the integration training course about Latvia was completed by the 14th group

The 14th group stared and completed the integration training course about Latvia organised within the scope of the project “Support Activities for Persons Under International Protection II” in October. From 3 to 15 October, 14 persons under international protection from Azerbaijan (5), Tajikistan (4...

A seminar on successful practices of integration programmes in different countries will be held

In order to exchange experience with institutions and organisations working in the area of integration, as well as to ensure effective cooperation between institutions, on October 24 the Information Centre for Newcomers organises a seminar “Successful practices of integration programmes in different...

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