Fedasil urgently needs additional places to house asylum seekers.

Fedasil launches the new information platform www.fedasilinfo.be. The mobile website provides applicants for international protection (asylum seekers) in Belgium with reliable information in 12 languages, 8 of which include an audio version.

An increase in the number of asylum seekers entering the reception network of Fedasil marked 2018.

A call for tender has been issued within the context of the AMIF Specific action on unaccompanied foreign minors.

The main destination countries were Ukraine, Georgia and Romania.

Fedasil is taking the lead in a new European project aiming to bring together employers on the one hand, and job-seeking applicants for international protection and refugees on the other, in a quicker and more effective way.

19,500 asylum seekers joined Fedasil's reception network in 2018, resulting in a need for additional places.

Last week, Fedasil organised the last conference of EPRA, the platform where 14 European countries work together on reception.

This Monday 3 December, the ‘Petit-Château’ has become an ‘arrival centre’ for asylum seekers who have just arrived in Belgium.

Brussel Onthaal and BIAL, the Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics of the VUB (University of Brussels) work to improve the communication with new asylum seekers. Their project is subsidised this year by Fedasil.