And Mingle it is! The 1st partners’ meeting of the promising ‘’Mingle: ‘Generating Social and Human Capital for Third Country Nationals’’ (AMIF-2016-AG-INTE-01) took place in Larissa, Greece, on 15/02/2018, in a nice and collaborative atmosphere between 10 partners from 5 different countries. MMC from Cyprus, Santurban and Documenta from Spain, Integrationslyftet and Folkuniversitetet from Sweden, Dimitra and Larissa Municipality form Greece, GFBM and MetropolisNet from Germany under the coordination of Nicosia Municipality Multifunctional Fpundation got to meet each other and for the partners who had never cooperated before, to get to know better each other’s experience and expertise. During the kick-off meeting the aims and objectives of the project were presented aong with the overview of the workload per Workpackage. Quality control, key indicators, project management principles, planning next tasks and deadlines and important dissemination activities to be implemented were also part of the fruitful meeting.

A  Partner Workshop for the exchange of best practices took also place, adjacently to the kick off meeting on 16/02/2018. Partners had the opportunity to exchange previous experiecnes relevant to the project’s aims. The main activities of the workshop included:

• Discussing the best practices presented
• Identifing strong areas as well as areas of complementarity
• Identifing possible ways of categorizing these best practices
• Trng to develop a holistic model for the systemization of the active citizenship and integration of third country nationals