{"id":22812,"date":"2020-10-19T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.axfoundation.se\/?p=22812"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:57:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T10:57:18","slug":"axfoundations-integration-initiative-accelerates-oppnadorren-becomes-part-of-axel-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.axfoundation.se\/en\/news\/axfoundations-integration-initiative-accelerates-oppnadorren-becomes-part-of-axel-johnson","title":{"rendered":"Axfoundation’s integration initiative accelerates: \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren becomes part of Axel Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Press release 2020-10-19: \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren<\/a> is taking the next step in creating a movement of \u2018door openers\u2019 who all contribute to a more open Sweden. Axfoundation’s innovative integration initiative becomes part of Axelerate, Axel Johnson Group’s newly started focus area to fast track efforts within the areas of diversity and inclusion. Since Axfoundation started \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren in 2015, over 59,000 new and established Swedes have met over dinner, coffee or with their children \u2013 and 24 percent have found a job or an internship as a result of the meeting. This shows that our approach to change works in practice: Meetings lead to networks and networks lead to jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Since the start in 2015, over 59, 000 new and stablished Swedes have met through \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren. 24% have landed a jobb or an internship a result of their meeting with a door opener.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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\u201c\u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren\u2019s long-term goal remains,\u201d says Eliza K\u00fcc\u00fckaslan, Head of Axelerate. \u201cTogether with partner organizations Yrkesd\u00f6rren, Nya Kompisbyr\u00e5n and Svenska med baby, we want to contribute to a more inclusive society with increased diversity within as well as outside the business sector. With \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren now becoming part of Axel Johnson, we can accelerate the work of facilitating meetings between established and new Swedes who need to broaden their networks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren today comprises three integration initiatives that all facilitate meetings in different ways. The common denominator for the organizations Yrkesd\u00f6rren, Nya Kompisbyr\u00e5n and Svenska med baby is that they all have a low threshold for participation: Participants contribute with an hour of their time \u2013 an hour that has proven to make a big difference to an individual\u2019s ability to get established in Sweden. Yrkesd\u00f6rren is the initiative that Axfoundation started and grew on its own, while the other two were existing initiatives that Axfoundation chose to support within the framework of \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren. For the past five years, Axfoundation has served as an incubator for all three initially small-scale organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to channel the public’s commitment to improved integration in the labor market and make it incredibly easy to contribute as a fellow human being,\u201d says Amelie Silfverstolpe, initiator for \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren and Sustainable Innovation Lead at Axfoundation. \u201cWe developed and tested a new method that we have refined and scaled up, both on our own and by collaborating and strengthening organizations that share our theory of change. I look forward to how this movement of inclusion will be able to be further scaled up under new management within the Axel Johnson Group. It’s time to make \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren an even bigger movement!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Parts of \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren have been co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) since 2017 with a planned end date set for 2022. The participant goal for the joint special project was reached in August this year and so the collaboration with ESF ends in connection with the new management of \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren. Financing from ESF, together with the support from Axfoundation, has played a central role in driving \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren and its partners \u2013 and its success.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone at Axfoundation are really proud of the innovative integration activities that we have built up together with the civil society, businesses and the involvement of private individuals,\u201d says Amelie Silfverstolpe, Sustainable Innovation Lead at Axfoundation. \u201cHanding over \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren has been our goal since the start, it is part of how Axfoundation works. Now is the time for us to take on new societal challenges. Because we create the best value when we identify a concrete sustainability problem together with others and develop practical solutions that are scalable. When the solution has proven to work, it is time to hand over to reach full exchange of the solution \u2013 as we are now doing with \u00d6ppnaD\u00f6rren.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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