Athens Coordination Center for Migrant and Refugee issues: Career Day “WELCOME 2025” – Let’s meet for the 5th year at Serafio City of Athens

Friday, April 4 | 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

The Athens Coordination Center for Migrant and Refugee issues | ACCMR invites you to “WELCOME 2025”, which for the 5th year offers employment and networking opportunities to all, with a focus on candidates with a refugee and migrant background.

The Vice Mayor for Social Integration of Migrants and Refugees of the City of Athens, Thanasis Chimonas, underlines the importance of access for refugees and migrants to the labour market: “While xenophobia and racism are on the rise, we must highlight that the development of policies guided by both the needs of the economy and respect for fundamental rights is a basic prerequisite for social cohesion and prosperity. At the Municipality of Athens, at a time when the country is facing significant labour shortages, we aim to strengthen the structures that support integration in collaboration with employers, civil society, the central administration and international organisations.”

The event, in which 1,600 people and 110 businesses have participated since 2021, is implemented at the initiative of the Professional Skills & Job Market Working Group of the ACCMR and the participation of 13 organizations that support integration.

On Friday, April 4, the doors of Serafio will be open from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm. Participation is free.

The event will be attended by 28 leading companies, operating throughout Greece in sectors such as tourism, catering, facility management, human resources services, construction, transportation, retail.

Visitors will have the opportunity to talk to business representatives, provide their CVs and participate in personnel selection interviews for positions of different levels of specialization. The interviews will be conducted in Greek and English.

There will be a creative activity area for children over two years old.

Please find here the invitation to the event: INVITATION_BENEFICIARIES_WELCOME 2025_EN

Organization

The WELCOME 2025 action, which will take place in Athens, is an initiative of the Skills Development & Access to the Labor Market Working Group of the Athens Coordination Center for Migrant and Refugee issues (ACCMR). 

Organising partners:  UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency  | Greek Forum of Migrants | Migrant Integration Center of the City of Athens| Kivotos tou Kosmou| METAdrasi | ActionAid Hellas |  Caritas Hellas | Catholic Relief Services (CRS) | Generation 2.0 for Rights, Equality and Diversity | International Rescue Committee (IRC) | Ithaca | Junior Achievement | SolidarityNow

Cookoovaya restaurant is kindly sponsoring part of the event’s meals.

Melissa – The Network of Migrant Women in Greece will support the event with volunteers.

Participating companies

AB Vasilopoulos, Action Line, Adecco, Aegeo Spas, ALTER EGO A.E, AVS Service, BuTLY, Domes Resorts, Electra Hotels & Resorts, EUROCATERING SA, ICAP ES, INGROUP, Kanava Hotels & Resorts, McDonald’s, MANDYNAMIC, MANIFEST SERVICES, MOTODYNAMICS, NEWREST Hellas, Praktiker Hellas, Randstad Hellas, STARBUCKS, Santa Marina, StiQ, SSP Hellas S.A., SWOT Hospitality, Trenkwalder, Workathlon, ZEUS International Hotels & Resorts.

For more information: Dionysia Lambiri, ACCMR Coordinator, [email protected]

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