Hello Europe aims to become the collective voice of innovative, empowering citizen solutions in the field of migration. We strive to provide a vision of the kind of work happening in Europe and around the globe, which is creating a better society for people on the move as well as for those who meet them.
We aim to do this by:
Scaling
Identifying and spreading proven impactful citizen solutions to regions most in need.
Policy
Bridging the gap between social entrepreneurs and the public and policy sector
Narrative
Changing the narrative by ensuring migrants and their stories are at the centre of the conversations.
―Featured Stories
HELLO EUROPE AUTUMN QUARTERLY
What a year this has been! Our feeling has often been one of trudging through lots of worry and work that seems to move forward ever so slowly, if at all. However, when we stopped a few weeks ago to remember what we had done, we were surprised at the amount of milestones and successes that had been achieved. And we're now excited to share some of that with you, including a few opportunities to collaborate, download resources, or apply for grants.
NEW pUBLICATIONS FROM HELLO EUROPE
We're very excited to share two publications that we have been working on for the last year: our Impact Report and the Hello Europe Accelerator Guide (lite and snapshot versions).
#BlACKLIVESMATTER
As Ashoka Hello Europe, we stand in solidarity with our Black community, both in the United States and abroad, and our community of social entrepreneurs and changemakers who are seeking justice through protests and fighting racism, inequality and oppression. We believe in a world where everyone has the same rights, and the same opportunities, and where we all can express love and respect in action. This is impossible unless our communities are diverse and inclusive.
Hello Europe Summer Quarterly
The last few months have been a strange and very difficult period for most of the world, especially for the most vulnerable in our societies. Across Europe, migrants and other groups have been particularly hit by the pandemic. They have also emerged as heroes across the continent: vital workers who continued throughout the pandemic, specialized medical professionals who were brought in to cover needs, and social entrepreneurs making a difference in their communities, often inaccessible or forgotten by the institutions that serve them.
― Why Partner With Us?
“We believe that people who have come to Europe in search of a new life should be given the chance to be part of the process of integrating into their new society and of finding employment in their new country. Since 2017 the Schöpflin Foundation has supported Ashoka and its Hello Europe Impact Programme.
We believe that through its programmes, Ashoka demonstrates how professional and transformative citizen solutions can work and how these ideas can be disseminated in a targeted way.
Our mutual aim is to ensure that these ideas and achievements become firmly fixed in the minds of policy-makers, including those at EU level. We share the hope that Hello Europe will create new synergies for national and EU-wide strategies that result in Europe becoming the open, participatory and inclusive community that it aspires to be. ”
“As a corporation with staff from more than 100 nations, we want to take a stance. We see a great opportunity, especially in the integration of skilled employees into the labour market, however at the moment we are lacking appropriate concepts to achieve this well in many countries across Europe. Tested solutions already exist in other countries. We are part of Hello Europe to get to know these and other concepts and to make our contribution to bringing them to Europe. We want to look beyond our borders and keep spinning the wheel, instead of reinventing it.”
