The event intends to gather both international and local audiences – library specialists and professionals from various municipal services responsible for welcoming and integrating the newcomers, developers of national integration and library policy, NGOs and researchers.

The conference is planned as a 2 half-days event. The first day will explore libraries’ experiences with providing occasions for informal language training and socialising, as well as improving newcomers and other inhabitants’ digital skills. The second day will offer experience sharing on library space as a resource when introducing new functions and the role of dialogue in community building.

The conference is a part of the Nordic-Baltic project ”Fostering Refugee and Immigrant Integration – FOR-IN 2.0 (2025-2026).” Other project events are a conference in Kaunas (Shaping Inclusive Cities Together, April 2025), a conference in Tartu (Keys of Integration through Access to Digital Tools and Affordable Housing, October 16, 2025), two study visits followed by two webinars and an NGO forum. The NCM Offices in Lithuania, Latvia,  and Estonia are closely collaborating with the national public bodies and other actors in the Baltic and Nordic countries in organising the project events.