CLAIM - Local Support Center for the Integration of Migrants

Who are we?

CLAIMs are spaces created to welcome, inform, and support migrants, helping them in various areas of daily life, with the mission of supporting the entire process of reception and integration of migrants.

Contact and Opening Hours

Objectives

• Facilitate the integration of migrants;
• Provide support and guidance in the migration process;
• Promote activities and awareness-raising and training actions for the integration of migrants;
• Organise workshops, talks, and training sessions;
• Develop intervention projects;
• Collaborate with institutions to develop mediation, providing services to the community.

Support Services Provided

• Regularisation;
• Nationality;
• Family reunification;
• Housing;
• Voluntary Return;
• Work;
• Health;
• Education;
• And other everyday matters.

Team

• Professor Elisabete Pinto da Costa – Operation Coordinator
• Professor Hélia Bracons – Deputy Coordinator of CLAIM – ULusófona – Lisbon University Centre
• Professor Ana Paula Caetano – Deputy Coordinator of CLAIM – ULusófona – Porto University Centre
• Ana Gabriela Pereira – Activity Management Support Technician
• Branca Ruela – Lawyer
• Maria Tello – Intercultural Mediator
• Mariana Oliveira – Social Worker
• Rafaela Marques – Psychologist

Designation
Support and Integrate Migrants (AIM)

Beneficiary
COFAC – Cooperativa de Formação e Animação Cultural, CRL / Lusófona University

Parish, Municipality, and District
Parish of Sé – Municipality of Porto – District of Porto
Rua Augusto Rosa, nº 24, 4000-098

Parish of Alvalade – Municipality of Lisbon – District of Lisbon
Campo Grande, nº 376, 1749-024, Lisbon

Total Eligible Cost
3,250,000.00€ (Fund Allocation)
1,083,333.33€ (National Allocation)
228,089.46€ (Approved funding for CLAIM Lusófona)

EU Financial Support
228,089.46€ (Approved funding for Lusófona's project)

EU Financing Rate
75%

Operation Code
FAMI2030-FAMI-00331700

Operation Website
ulusofona.pt

Specific Objective
Strengthen and encourage legal migration to Member States according to their economic and social needs, and promote and contribute to the effective integration and social inclusion of third-country nationals.

Description
Support and Integrate Migrants (AIM) is a project of CLAIM Lusófona, supported by the FAMI 2030 Programme and the European Union. It is a migrant reception and integration service, based on a concerted community intervention strategy, with an integrated and holistic perspective, understanding the constraints inherent in the migration process. Comprising a physical space for migrant services, in both in-person and online formats, the service is located in two university centres, based in Lisbon and Porto. It has an interdisciplinary team that develops various activities: Migrant Support Office; Employability and Professional Integration Promotion Programme; Intercultural Mediation Programme; Citizenship, Democratic Participation, and Entrepreneurship; Intercultural Mentorship Programme; Interfaith Dialogue; and others.