📊 Monitoring policies might be the gateway you are missing to engaging with policymakers Why? #Policymakers are drawn to clear, actionable insights. Regularly assessing policies with indicators helps spot gaps and identify best practices, making a real impact. 🔍 Check out Alexander Wolffhardt from the Migration Policy Group as he shares practical tips for #researchers on integrating monitoring into their work to drive change: https://loom.ly/60MIvJo
Migration Research to Policy Co-Lab
Research Services
Where research meets policy. Connecting professionals in migration. Run by Horizon Europe INNOVATE project.
About us
There’s plenty of research on migration, yet it’s often ignored when shaping policy due to barriers in translating data into action. Our aim is to increase the collaboration between migration research and policy. To do that, we identify proven ways to bridge migration research and policy. We run innovation pilots that test new ways of engaging and conduct behavioural science experiments. We use these insights to create resources available on the Co-Lab, which features a Research Exchange, Engagement Hub, and Training Facility. The Co-Lab is run by the INNOVATE Consortium, a Horizon Europe-funded coordination project. Meet the 12 members of the INNOVATE consortium: Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute European Council on Refugees and Exiles AISBL Warsaw University University of Luxembourg University of Edinburgh International Centre for Migration Policy Development Migration Policy Group Suleyman Demirel University Technische Universitaet Chemnitz Radboud University International Rescue Committee Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography
- Industry
- Research Services
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Type
- Educational
- Founded
- 2024
- Specialties
- migration, policy, research, engagement, evidence-based policy, and innovation
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" (..) During the discussion at a recent EU asylum law conference, a non-lawyer colleague with extensive migration experience admitted to feeling lost; the speakers referenced only article numbers and judgment paragraphs, with no one explaining their content." Legal academics face extra challenges when engaging with policymakers, but they can also communicate better! 📢 Law-related terminology and frameworks may seem obvious to experts, but not everyone speaks "legalese." In this Short, Meltem Ineli Ciger shares hard-earned lessons, and her experience as a young, non-EU female researcher 📌 https://loom.ly/dBIHxmo
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➡️ ➡️ New Shorts Series! Get ready for weeks of tips to communicate and connect with #policymakers! Today, Flaminia Delle Cese & Melina Koumpou from the International Rescue Committee talk about the power of connecting personally and share their proven approach to advocacy across Europe. 💡 5 quick tips for successful one-on-one meetings 1️⃣ Use first-hand data to enhance credibility. 2️⃣ Grab attention with a compelling "hook." 3️⃣ Research your audience before reaching out. 4️⃣ Tailor, prepare, and practice your message. 5️⃣ Stay flexible—offer alternatives to meet your goals. Read the full strategy: https://lnkd.in/dTvr7PTM
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Save the date! 👉 How can #researchers better connect evidence and practice in #migration studies? At this upcoming seminar, Eleonora Milazzo, PhD Milazzo will dive into how researchers distill messages from their work and assess knowledge exchange in #Horizon-funded migration projects. Based on her work with the Co-Lab, she will also share actionable insights to strengthen the link between data and #policy. 🗓️29 January 2025 | 15.00 - 16.00 CET 💻Hybrid Register 📌 https://loom.ly/fYFL3KA
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Stepping into 2025, let’s take a moment to look back at the first Shorts Series we've run so far! From migration narratives to EU mobility policies, we turned complex #research into actionable insights to help policymakers tackle pressing #migration challenges 🔎 https://lnkd.in/df676YZa Don’t miss out on what’s coming next! 📩 Subscribe to our newsletter and get ready for the upcoming series launching this month: https://loom.ly/tDtI9QE
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In #2025, we'll continue striving to connect research with action 🔗 Whether you're an academic, advocate, policymaker, or concerned citizen, our inputs on pressing #migration issues might be of your interest. ✉️ Sign up for the #MigrationCoLab newsletter and never miss an update! https://lnkd.in/dvP9RJxt
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The highlight of our year has been connecting with you. Thank you for making our launch this past autumn a huge success. Our whole team wishes you and your loved ones the happiest of days! We will be back in 2025 with more initiatives to advance migration research to policy! 🎄 https://lnkd.in/dJbsbZPD 🎄
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❓ How can we better foster inclusion for displaced people in the EU? Lessons from the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) show the power of immediate access to work, education, and housing. Explore insights that can reshape #refugee policy. 🏡📚💼 In this Short, Viktoryia Vaitovich, PhD explores how these lessons can be applied to improve inclusion for others seeking protection in the EU. Read the full piece 📌 https://loom.ly/b6EE-xI
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Do you know what SMsTRA stands for? 🔎 It refers to small and medium-sized towns and rural areas, which, since the 2015 European 'refugee crisis', have become key in hosting #refugees and #migrants. ➡️ Yet, many still lack well-developed integration policies. This Short highlights how political factors shape integration and suggests actions for creating more inclusive policies 📌 https://loom.ly/61BMf4g #MigrationCoLab short by Tiziana Caponio and Andrea Pettrachin
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"Rather than focusing on research impacting upon policy (setting the bar too high), focus instead on how to build engagement between research evidence, policies and practices. Aim to build the capacity to engage with evidence to increase the demand for evidence, incentivise engagement and increase evidence uptake." Interesting insights by Andrew Geddes during the launch of the Mixed Migration Review 2024 Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) 👇🏽 Learn more about what we do at the #MigrationCoLab to foster evidence and data 📌 https://lnkd.in/dJbsbZPD
On December 5 I participated in the launch of the 2024 Mixed Migration Review. It's great, read it here: https://lnkd.in/dWEJUNWW I was asked to talk about research-policy relations and here's what I said (feedback very welcome!): ➡️ Paradox of evidence: there's never been so much migration research evidence - and public money invested in this work - but there's a perception that it has limited impact on policies and practices. The EU alone has funded more than 50 migration-related projects since 2015 and that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's a huge amount of high quality work but engaging with it - or even finding out what these projects were about - is a big task ➡️ What is the impact that we're trying to achieve? Many projects are required to think about their impact, but what does that mean? Too often the focus is on changing policy, but that's unrealistic, possibly also undesirable and certainly sets the bar too high. For one thing, the research evidence is rarely unambiguous. Migration is an area where facts, evidence and information will elide with peoples' values and beliefs (that includes the values and beliefs of researchers too). This increases - not reduces - the need for high quality evidence to inform debate but research evidence is part of that debate and it's unrealistic to think that research evidence should drive that debate as though this means communicating objective truths rather than evidence that could or should be contested. The problem of course is that some policy areas seem immune to evidence: asylum and irregular migration policies are probably good examples. ➡️ What do we know about what works and what can be done? There are lots of example of research evidence informing policies and practices but there is also significant variation. At local, community or city level there can be more receptiveness to research evidence. Some policy areas are far less politicised than others which also influences receptiveness to research evidence. Rather than focusing on research impacting upon policy (setting the bar too high), focus instead on how to build engagement between research evidence, policies and practices. Aim to build the capacity to engage with evidence to increase the demand for evidence, incentivise engagement and increase evidence uptake. This means research evidence can get into the room where decisions are made, but it can be a noisy room and whether we like it or not research evidence is just one voice. The Migration Research to Policy Co-Lab has created a: ⚫ Research Exchange to share research findings in short and accessible formats ⚫ Engagement Hub where researchers share insights into how to build effective engagement from project design through to communication and dissemination. ⚫ Training Facility where the lessons about research and engagement are embed in training. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/dKhv6zYq