Date: Tuesday, 17 October 7:00 – 8:30pm CET (Brussels)
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Dr Majbritt Lyck-Bowen is developing a research study on language cafés. In this Learning & Exchange event organised together with Winchester Centre of Religion, Reconciliation and Peace, Majbritt Lyck-Bowen will give us a broad understanding of what data she has collected up till now and what conclusions can be drawn to what’s useful and essential. She will present the participatory part of the project and how practitioners may be involved.
Domenica Pecoraro is the Kent Refugee Programmes Manager in the diocese of Canterbury, UK, running several projects with the intent to create genuine long-term social bonds and plant seeds of belonging and love for their new neighbours. Domenica Pecoraro will focus on boundaries and power relations within the Conversation Café setting.
Petr Sobalík is a social worker and the Coordinator for the Door Project by Diaconia in the Czech Republic. The project is aimed at accompaniment and integration activities for migrant and refugee families and individuals. Peter Sobalík will speak on language cafés as “talent pools”.
Lisa Hofverberg is a deacon in the Church of Sweden running welcoming programs and integration activities within the church and in close cooperation with the municipality, library, local schools and organisations. Lisa Hofverberg will describe how their community model improved the effect of their collective work and got state funding.
