The Refugee Council for the project NIEM was established in Warsaw.
20.10.2020 the team form the Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw met with activists and community leaders with experience of the forced migration to discuss plans for further work.

All participants have a long professional and personal experience as activists and community leaders and are involved various actions and initiatives for intercultural dialogue and integration in cities as Warsaw or Gdansk but also in projects all over the country, within the national and international networks.
During the first meeting participants highlighted the challenges that people with granted protection and asylum seekers face in Poland due to gaps or insufficient current solutions in such aspects as education and availability of polish language courses, housing and the risk of homelessness among beneficiaries of international protection, lack of appropriate psychological assistance especially for people who experienced detention in Poland, and linked to that, the lack of specialists in educational and medical facilities with knowledge and experience of cross-cultural work.
At the next meetings, we also plan to talk more closely about selected areas of integration and proposals for changes that would improve the situation of people with refugee background, as well as about actions that can be taken towards institutions deciding on integration policies.