Director General Susanne Raab met with Swedish Minister for Migration HE Johan Forssell in Stockholm in January, capping Sweden’s successful 2025 Chairmanship of ICMPD’s Steering Group. They discussed the ongoing cooperation along migration routes and with partner countries, return and reintegration, and the EU Pact for Migration and Asylum. As the Director General’s first visit to Sweden, the mission also sets the foundation for continued high-level dialogue and future collaboration aligned with ICMPD’s Strategy 2030.
Countries
*European Union / Austria / Belgium / Croatia / Czechia / Finland / France / Germany / Greece / Ireland / Italy / Lithuania / Netherlands / Poland / Portugal / Romania / Slovakia / Spain / Sweden
Status
Completed
Duration
01.03.2021
to
28.02.2023
Donors
European Commission (Horizon 2020)
Partners
The Department of Sociology and Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands), the Department for Migration and Globalization at Danube University Krems (Austria), SOLIDAR (Belgium), the Migration Policy Institute-Europe (MPI-Europe, Belgium), Youngminds (Romania), the International Catholic Migration Commission Europe (ICMC-Europe, BE) and the Migration Policy Group (MPG, BE). The project implementation is supported by the Ottawa Refugee Hub at Ottawa University (Canada) as non-EU partner and by EUROCITIES (Belgium) as associate partner.
Focused on the integration of recently arrived migrants in the context of the large-scale arrivals of refugees and other migrants since 2014, SPRING aimed to develop a toolbox to improve the innovation, effectiveness and sustainability of the work done by Europe’s integration stakeholders at national, regional and local levels.
SPRING did so by:
- Engaging with relevant communities of practice
- Collecting evidence on sustainable and effective integration policy practices
- Identifying successful and sustainable practices targeted at the integration of newly arrived migrants
- Promoting an evidence culture in integration policy
- Creating innovative knowledge exchange tools on sustainable practices of integration
The SPRING consortium brought together some of Europe’s most well-connected integration researchers, think-tanks and stakeholder networks with the support of global stakeholders.
As such, the project mobilised significant research, networks and communications capacity and gathered, summarised and shared the best available research and evidence on the effectiveness, innovation, transferability, sustainability and evaluation methods for integration policies and practice. This evidence summarised the findings of EU projects funded under Horizon 2020, AMIF, European Social Fund and Erasmus+ as well as relevant public and private donors.
Visit the SprINg platform to explore the wealth of resources, which were created over the course of the project.
Justyna Segeš Frelak
Project Manager