From the Sea to the City
Budget
€17,000
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
11
1.75 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The From the Sea to the City Consortium aims to join forces to reimagine the European stance on migration with cities and human rights at the center. With this vision we want to send a strong signal to European institutions that a welcoming and human-rights based migration and refugee policy is not only possible nor an option, but an obligation. With the aim to advocate for an active role of cities in European migration and asylum policy, From the Sea to The City works to increase the visibility of welcoming municipalities at EU level, encourage other local governments to take action, while continuing to find synergies and collaborate with further actors, such as other networks and CSOs. The joint advocacy work between our consortium and the International Alliance of Safe Harbours (IASH), a city network focusing on migration and reception.
EU Legislative Interests
Migration and Asylum Cohesion Integration
Communication Activities
We co-coordinate the International Alliance of Safe Harbours, a European network of welcoming municipalities. This entails constant work on EU policies from a local perspective (the core of our work). On the following link, you can see the events we attend, what they are about and what actors are involved in our networking efforts: https://fromseatocity.eu/news/ https://iash-eu.org/what-we-do/
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
We are not part of confederations or networks, but we liaise with other networks, such as Eurocities, ANVITA, ARCI, NALAS, PICUM in search of synergies and adhoc collaboration, as well as in order to avoid overlaps. You can also find these in our news section of the website: https://fromseatocity.eu/news/
Organisation Members
Please see our landing page (being updated): https://fromseatocity.eu/ Not all of the organisations on the landing page are currently active and other organisations that joined us this year have not yet been listed on the website. The news ones are: Legal Aid - Voice in Bulgaria, Kompas071, Klikaktiv, Second Tree. https://centerforlegalaid.com/en/ https://www.instagram.com/kompas071_sarajevo/?hl=de https://klikaktiv.org/ https://secondtree.org/ Organisations such as Open Arms, Sea Watch, Emergency and Berlin Governance Platform are not anymore active members, but remain in our sphere of influence as allies, only with very reduced or no active participation. The website is being remodelled and will be updated accordingly to reflect these changes.
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.