CONSOLIDATE (2024-2027)

CONSOLIDATE aims to:

Support the development and implementation of new and more effective local integration strategies.
Identify and disseminate best practices and key knowledge to improve local integration policies.
Improve transnational engagement and cooperation between integration stakeholders.
Increase engagement of migrants and their organisations at the national level.

METHODOLOGY

TRANSNATIONAL PEER SUPPORT

CONSOLIDATE has a strong element of reaching out to cities outside the project. This happens concretely through the Integration Champions providing support to 2 less experienced cities outside the project; in opening the training on cross-cutting challenges to external audiences; and in the project’s outputs.

The project will continue the efforts of Eurocities and its partners to develop insightful and evidence-based guidance on how to do better and more effective integration policies in a concise, “practitioner-friendly” format. This is reflected in the How-to-Guides, research and policy briefs, master classes and best practice cases developed for the project.

THREE COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

Refining the transnational learning method used in three previous AMIF-funded projects, CONSOLIDATE draws on thematic communities of practice (COP) as the main space for structuring transnational peer learning between cities. Three such COPs will be set up to address challenges in:

housing
employment
setting up one-stop shops

The COPs accompany member cities in conducting needs analysis, followed by the planning and implementation of an innovative pilot action or service. Peers will conduct thematic benchmarking in the three areas, providing guidance to assess the local status quo in in each of the 12 cities and informing the pilot actions in each city.