HumanRights360, as an active member of the PISTE project, participated in the last field visit of the project and the consortium meeting, that took place in Bebra on 15th and 16th December 2023.
The mayor of the partner Municipality of Bebra, along with representatives of the municipality and FH Erfurt opened the event and presented the local context and policies in the renewed co-working space of the Bebra railway station, offering the PISTE partners the opportunity to discover the historical development of Bebra, the crucial importance of its railway and its long history of immigration. A tour at the railway station museum followed, in which participants were informed about the town’s history as a railway town and a border town during Cold War period. The PISTE partners, also, visited the local Mosque, where the Turkish Islamic Cultural Association is hosted, the memorial and exhibition “Resistance & democratic activism during WWII” and the Bebra Syrian Orthodox Church. Finally, PISTE partners visited the youth centre Juze, which works and focuses on youth care and street work.
The second day was dedicated to the Consortium Meeting in view of the upcoming PISTE final event. Partners discussed about the structure of the White Paper on the Participation of Immigrants in Small- and Medium-Sized Towns, which will be published in January, and about the organisation of the final event, which will be held in Brussels at the end of January. At the closure of the meeting, final outcomes and impressions about the policy experiments were exchanged, among local policymakers and researchers involved in the project, pointing out strengths and weaknesses of each experience.
HumanRights360 sincerely thanks the partner in Bebra for their great hospitality in their historical town and for the successful organisation of this last field visit of the PISTE project.
