• Gather at least 20 and a maximum of 35 participants in each action
• Ensure a place to perform the action – room with table and chairs displayed in a U
• Have support equipments – flipchart and markers, computer with access to the internet and a data show.

• Competences and responsibilities of each entity involved;  
• Measures, goals, indicators, target and chronogram considering the period of 2015-2017;

Areas: Services of Hosting and Integration/ Urbanism and Housing/ Work market and Entrepreneurship/ Education and Language/ Capability and Training / Culture / Health / Solidarity and Social Response / Citizenship and Civic Participation / Media and Sensitization of the Public Opinion / Racism and Discrimination / International Relationships / Religion;

Measures by level:

• Measures of Level 1 – those that, in the elaboration of the Plan, are considered by the entities as the hard core for the competences of each council in the area of hosting and integration of immigrants because they are crucial to the process of integration at a local level and that, because of that, must always be granted to immigrant citizens, with our without external financing;
• Measures of Level  2 – all those that are not a priority on the level 1;
• Ranking of the Measures at a financing level (shouldn´t be considered the measures that do not need financing to be accomplished).  
• Mechanisms and instruments of monitoring and future evaluation of the measures in order to contribute to grant the sustainability of the public policies with regards to hosting and integration.

UFCD of Portuguese to speakers of other languages – Elementary User – Level A1:

• UFCD 6452 – Me and my daily routine (25 horas)
• UFCD 6453 – Eating habits, cultures and leisure (25 horas)
• UFCD 6454 – The human body, health and services (25 horas)

• UFCD 6455 – Me and the work market (25 horas)
• UFCD 6456 – My past and my present (25 horas)
• UFCD 6457 – Communication and life in society (25 horas)

• See UFCD 6400UI – Society and life projects (50 Horas)
• See UFCD 6401UI – Timeliness (25 Horas).

The knowledge of the Portuguese language can also be proved by the following ways:

• Qualifications Certificate issued by a public, private or cooperative entity recognized in the legal terms considering that its holder has undertook with success the portuguese unit/ subject at least in two academic years;
• Certificate of approval of portuguese language taken in entities of the public network when done at the national territory or places approved by  Camões – Institute of Cooperation and Language, I.P., when done abroad, and the regulation of the exam as well as its respective control must be part of the decree of the member of the Govern responsible for the areas of foreigner business and internal administration, justice and education;  
• Certificate both in portuguese and foreign language, issued upon accomplishment of the exam of the portuguese exam center, as a foreign language, recognized by the Ministry of Education and Science, according to the protocol;
• Certificate of qualification that prove the completion of the level A2 or higher, issued by a facility of the public education, job centers and training and protocol center of the  IEFP I.P., under the Decree nr.  1262/2009, of 15th of October, changed by the Decree nr. 216-B/2012, of 18th July.

Where may I do the CIPLE exam?  

• Faculty of Arts of the Porto University of Beira Interior;
• Faculty of Arts of the University de Lisbon;
• Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University  Nova of Lisbon;
• Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal;
• University of Algarve,
• Others, consult the list at: http://caple.letras.ulisboa.pt/centers/index

• Municipal Plans for the Integration of Immigrants
• Documents containing the strategies of joint performance of the different entities that act in the area of migrations, at a local level, and that work for the completion of the multi vector process of immigrants in the Portuguese society.

• Services of Integration  
• Solidaridarity and Social Response
• Urbanism and Housing
• Citizenship and Civic Participation
• Work Market and Enterpreunership
• Media and Sensitization of the Public Opinion
• Education and Language
• Training and Capability
• Racism and Descrimination
• Culture
• International Relationships
• Health
• Religion

• The universe of the relevant local policies in this area;
• The effectiveness of these policies in terms of response to the needs
• The identification of Inspiring Practices with potential to be applied.

Created by the recommendations from the Common Agenda for the Integration of NPT (more information), with respects to:

• Valuing policies of integration at a local level;  
• Improvement of the cooperation between the different levels of governance: national, regional and local
• Promotion of monitoring of services and policies developed at different levels

Integrant Municipals

The RMAD integrats around a hundred of munipals from the north to the south of the coutrry and the autonomous regions, most of which have already applied the IMAD and some are envolved in Municipals Plans. See the list here.

Join

To join the Network fill in the Application Form of Adherence here and send it to ACM (Rua dos Anjos, nº66, 1º 1150-039 Lisbon).

• The foreigner citizens/residents in Portugal, i.e., national of third countries, communitarian, refugees and asylum, Portuguese-descendants that do not speak Portuguese or that seek to deepening their knowledge.
• The immigrant that does not speak Portuguese can enroll the Portuguese certified course, which will allow the access to nationality, authorization for permanent residence and/ or the statute of long run residence (level A2).
• The immigrant that does already speak Portuguese may enroll the technical Portuguese certified course, which will allow a better access and integration in the work market in the areas of retail, hospitality, beauty care, civil construction and civil engineering.  
   

This initiative has as a goal to make available digital pedagogic resources, as a complement of materials/ instruments already existent in teaching PFOL – Portuguese for Natives of Other Languages

It is an e-learning platform developed with the Moodle software to support the teaching of the Portuguese language to foreigners in the training room.

This new tool gathers a set of pedagogic resources that increase the interactivity between students and teachers, namely, texts, audios, videos and animations.

Similar to the referential it is organized by the following units:

• Identification and Personal Description;  
• Daily Life;
• Food;
• Events and Hobbies;
• Shopping, Services and Directions;
• The human body and Health;  
• Professions and Work;
• Studies and Professional Experience;  
• Past and Present;
• Eating habit;
• News and Other Texts;
• Citizenship and Cultural Diversity.

The "One-Stop Shops" were then created, within the scope of the provision of services to immigrants in the EU countries, involving different ministries and institutions of public administration in partnership with non-governmental organizations and with the support of cultural mediators.

The Common Agenda for Integration - COM (2005) 389 final - defined as priorities: strengthening the capacity of public and private service providers to interact with third-country nationals via intercultural interpretation and translation, guidance, mediation services by immigrant communities, "One-Stop Shop" information points; and creating sustainable organizational structures for integration and diversity management.

Consult the handbook on how to implement the One-Stop-Shop project.

The Strategic Plan for Migrations (PEM), approved in the Resolution of the Council of Ministers nr. 12-B/2015 of 20th of March and coordinated by encompasses, in its turn, the importance of learning the language as a factor of integration in the hosting society.

In partnership with public and private entities, the ACM develops a set of services targeted to immigrants, allowing a daily and privilege contact with this population.

The ACM also has a competence boosting networks of partners and projects of social intervention, namely, articulating with Association representative of immigrants and their descendants, to whom ACM render technical and financial support to execute their activities, promoting the recognition of representativeness.

The application of delegate competences to ACM, with regards to the Typology of Intervention “Training in Portuguese Language for Foreigners”, will allow, in this way, the increase of information in view of a total participation of the recipients of that Typology of Intervention

Presentation Movie of the Operational Program Human Potential

By law, it is expected the following penalties:

• The practice of any discriminatory act, under the law by a natural person, is punishable administrative offense to a graduated fine between one and five times the highest minimum monthly wage, without prejudice to civil liability or other penalties imposed are instigated;
• The practice of any discriminatory act provided for by law for collective private law person is punishable administrative offense to a graduated fine between two and ten times the highest minimum monthly wage, without prejudice to any liability or application of other sanction are instigated;
• In case of recidivism, the minimum and maximum limits are increased to double;
• Where the administrative offense results from the omission of a duty, the application of sanctions and payment of the fine does not free the offender's compliance, if it is still possible.

It is considered discriminatory practices, actions or omissions that, because of the association of any person to a particular color, national or ethnic origin, violates the principle of equality.

The law lists the following:

• The refusal to supply or enjoyment of impediment of goods or services;
• The hindrance or limitation to the access and normal economic activity exercise;
• The denial of access to public or open to the public places;
• The refusal or limitation of access to educational establishments or public or private school;
• The creation of classes or the adoption of other internal organizational measures in education or teaching, public or private establishments, according to racial criteria;
• The adoption of practice or measure by any agency, employee or agent of direct or indirect administration of the State, Autonomous Regions or local authorities that conditions or limit the exercise of any right;
• The adoption of act in which, publicly or with the intention of wide dissemination, natural or legal person issues a statement or transmits an information whereby a group of people is threatened, insulted or degraded on the grounds of racial discrimination.

• Portuguese For Natives of Other Languages: the elementary user in the hosting country
• Portuguese For Natives of Other Languages – Suggestions of Activities and Exercises