The Homo Faber Association has launched the 3rd edition of Welcome to Lublin project, which is to last one and a half years. The project targets all foreigners who are going to reside, settle or stay longer in Lublin due to work, studies or for any other reasons.
Welcome to Lublin is a comprehensive project supporting foreigners that entails:
- Polish classes
- strolls around Lublin
- a calendar with useful information
- information meetings. Details to be found here: http://hf.org.pl/ao/index.php?id=2139
Information meetings comprising a series of lectures on the daily life of foreigners form legal perspective and featuring characteristics of Lublin are one of the elements of this project.
Meetings will take place once a week from February until July 2016. Every meeting will last 2 hours. Meetings are free of charge. Refreshments will be prepared for those in attendance.
Every meeting will be conducted by the specialists on a given topic, lawyers, experts from a given institution and will involve discussion as well as theory. Meetings like this are a wonderful opportunity to receive legal advice, and find answers to bugging questions on administrative and social procedures.
Venue: Lublin Municipal Office, Chancellery of the Mayor, Parysów Palace, ul Bernardyńska 3, room 109 (first floor) - the room can be accessed by physically impaired.
Meetings will be held from 17.00 until 19.00
The meeting calendar and the draft thematic scope
- FEBRUARY
17.02 Political and legal system in Poland
24.02 getting your stay in Poland legally registered
- MARCH
02.03 Administrative procedures and documents
09.03 Social welfare for migrants
16.03 Health care – how does the system work
23.03 Insurance system
30.03 Healthcare facilities in Lublin
- APRIL
06.04 Safety – general rules
13.04 Meeting with the Police
20.04 Meeting with Municipal Guards
27.04 Meeting with Border Guards
- MAY
11.05 Education – general rules, education of adults
18.05 Primary-school first grader
25.05 Foreign child at school
- JUNE
01.06 The job market – general rules
08.06 Recruitment agencies
15.06 Trade unions
22.06 Legality of employment – how to verify it
29.06 Current job offers/professional development trainings
- JULY
06.07 Social and culture life in Lublin
13.07 Minority and migrant organisations – an overview
We invite everyone!
Meetings are organised by the Homo Faber Association within Welcome to Lublin 3 programme. The project has been funded by the National Programme for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund and the state budget.