Integration and International Migration: Pathways and Integration Policies (INTEGRIM)

The INTEGRIM research training programme aims to establish a multi-site network of early stage researchers (predominantly PhD students) at the eight partner institutions fostering a multidisciplinary research career on International Migration and Integration within the European context. The network will apply a qualification framework with a compatible set of qualifications/knowledge/skills across the national systems for graduates of the INTEGRIM programme. Besides, the INTEGRIM research training programme will address the integration
challenges that migration flows pose to policy makers, civil society and industrial partners in Europe. 

Main objectives

The main features of the proposed research training programme can be described as follows:

1. provide high quality research training on integration policies and processes in the European Union and neighbouring countries. It aims to enhance the quality of the existing knowledge of scholars, policy makers, practitioners, economic actors and civil society dealing with integration.
2. contribute to the creation of an international inter-sectoral and multidisciplinary critical mass on the politics of integration and more specifically on cultural and identity management, citizenship and political participation, labour and social integration and urban integration, residential patterns and mobility.
3. enrich the political and social debate through a transnational multidisciplinary analysis on the causes and conditions leading to migrant integration and economic, social and territorial cohesion. The network aims to bring together key actors with proven experience and knowledge of integration policies and processes from academic, enterprise, civil society and public backgrounds.
4. provide EU policy makers and practitioners with qualitative and quantitative scientific tools to inform their decision making and implementation processes on the four indicated integration policy areas. The proposed programme aims to contribute to the EU's integration agenda on the basis of the coherent approach to integration pursued at EU level and fostered by the European Commission.

The mission of the INTEGRIM Research-Training Project is to make an innovative contribution to academic knowledge on the concept of integration as a key factor for the future cohesion of European societies. Integration constitutes an essential element of European policies concerning migration, as can be observed in the most relevant official documents on the matter.