MERGING- Housing for immigrants and community integration in Europe and beyond:strategies, policies, dwellings and governance
Migrants housing integration, public engagement
MERGING is an H2020 project gathering 10 partners and aiming to foster migrants’ inclu-sion through co-constructive housing.
The consortium is formed of 10 partners originated from 6 countries: the University Jean Moulin Lyon (France – coordinator), the University Rennes 1- EHESP (France), Quatorze (association of architects, France), Lyon Ingénierie Projet (academic project management company, France), the University of Valencia (Spain),the University of Bologna (Italy), the Universities of Gothenburg and Malmö (Sweden),COTA (Consultant in public policies, Belgium), and SocialBusinessEarth (NGO, Switzerland).
Objectives
The MERGING project pursues two main objectives:
1) to offer new tools for enhancing the integration of migrants across Europe,
2) to improve practices and policies at local, nationaland EU level for the integration of immigrants in European urban and local set-tings. To doso, the MERGING partners will test, implement and evaluate pilot co-constructive housingprojects. Interactions with various stakeholders are expected during the whole project.Collaboration with NGOs and public authorities will be developed and strengthened in orderto interview of refugees and volunteers. Experts’ committees will be set up to support andadvise partners during the implementation and progress of the three pilots projects. Finally,participative works plans will also be set up with beneficiaries, vol-unteers and civil societymember.
Équipe scientifica
Responsabile scientifico per il Dipartimento
Morena Cuconato
Comitato scientifico
Ivana Bolognesi, Marta Ilardo, Marta Salinaro, EDU Leonardo Corbo, Daniela Bolzani, DISA
Partner, finanziatori, patrocini
EU- H2020 Grant Agreement number: 101004535
Periodo progetto
Anno di inizio progetto: 2020
Anno di fine progetto: 2023