The Country Office for Austria of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Austrian section of the International Federation of Educative Communities (FICE) warmly invite you to their join conference on “Foster families for unaccompanied children” on the 31.01.2019, in the frame of the project “FAB – Fostering Across Borders” (IOM) and “FORUM – FOR Unaccompanied Minors” (FICE).

The invite and the agenda in English are available below, incuding the instruction for the registration. The registration deadline is January 23rd,  2019.

The conference will  be held in German.

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IOM Austria

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Childhub

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