The F4A book challenge 2025

Warsaw - Frankfurt (Oder) - Eisenhuttenstadt  - Luxembourg - Brussels

The EU pact on migration and asylum is like a chameleon - different colours on each side... There is still time to change it in a good way. We wrote our book to fill a strategic gap we noticed in the pact. For over 7 years we have been working very effectively in local development in villages and urban slums in Africa. According to our knowledge and experience, it's not hard to create working return hubs for Kenyans in Kenya, Nigerians in Nigeria, etc. Our research shows that we can attract migrants back to good and important work in their home countries. What we are doing now is a big challenge and a small promotion of this important book. Join us as our Roman travels through two worlds: in Europe and in Africa.

TIMELINE

2018 | full start of the Floor4Africa Programme in Africa (Kenya)

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2024 | Floor4Africa returns to Kibera slum to carry out return-hub-ready implementation of the Programme in St. Juliet's School: more...

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2025 | Roman Mazur, Grazyna Czubinska and Stanislaw Wojciechowski write the book "Local Return Hub F4A" to power the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum with know-how on working return hubs.

• 2025.06.06 | first issue of the "F4A" book with eBook version: download...

• 2025.06.14 | first presentation of the book to the Foreign Ministry in Poland: more... 

• 2025.06.19 | we receive quite enigmatic response from the Comissioner Brunner's office about returns, which motivates us even more to go to Brussels to talk about how unavoidable but also efficient for the EU is attracting migrants back to work to their home countries (Kenya and Nigeria come first): have a look...

• 2025.06.23 | Roman Mazur starts the F4A challenge - first stage: from Frankfurt (Oder) and Eisenhuttenstadt to Brussels and Luxembourg.

  • ca. 12pm - first stop of the challenge, Library of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder): more...

  • ca. 7pm - first 'Roman's Espresso' with Georg and Ingrid in a lake camping place (talks about the "Local Return Hub F4A" book and the reverse migration journey, from Europe to Africa): more...

• 2025.06.24 | Second stop of the challenge, 'Dublin Centre' in Eisenhuttenstadt with survey on return hubs in home countries: more...

• 2025.06.25 | Meeting with a general public member in Storkow and surprising talk about the EU pact on migration and asylum. Germans are also afraid of such a pact we know not much about, in fact. What's interesting, storks fly really close to the ground in German 'Stork Town': more...

• 2025.06.27 | The research visit to Eisenhuttenstadt implies a citizen interpellation to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland regarding the working group on the EU Migration Pact in the European Parliament (there is not a single MEP related to the Government of Poland up to now): more…

• 2025.06.28 | Last espresso with Roman in eastern Germany and nice conversation with the Schmidt family from Berlin about the strategic gap in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum (lack of legislation and no testing of return hubs yet). And then still going uphill but now only downhill: more…

• 2025.06.30 | Roman discloses how Google leads him on e-bike towards Brussels, in the #MakePactNewAct challenge promoting the book "Local Return Hub F4A": more…

• 2025.07.01 | Roman announces Stanislaw Wojciechowski - another author of our latest book about return hubs, joins him soon to ride together to Luxembourg and Brussels: more…

• 2025.07.02 | Roman and Stanislaw come to the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg to pass the "Local Return Hub F4A" book on to the President of EIB (to let people know that particular European Union institution is very well engaged in building innovation and social innovations for the future shape of the pact on migration and asylum): more…

• 2025.07.03-04 | Luxembourg under construction... Before leaving for Brussles, Roman and Stanislaw visit plenty of local construction sites in Luxembourg. That part of the EU is really developing the SmartCity way right now: more... & more…

• 2025.07.05-06 | Belgium welcomes Roman and Stanislaw with mild weather and great bikeways. They move towards Brussles with our unique book "Local Return Hub F4A". Today's Waterloo is hosting great number of the EU officials. You can hear all the European languages all around: more... & more...

• 2025.07.08 | Roman and Stanislaw are reaching the European Union Parliament in Brussels. The campaigning e-bike goes with them to spread the message about bad condition of another school bridge in Kibera slum in Nairobi: more...

• 2025.07.10 | Roman and Stanislaw bring the book "Local Return Hub F4A" to the DG HOME in Brussels. It's the leading EU institution dealing with migration issues: more...

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