Eight projects have been selected in the Urban Migration call. The projects consist of transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral communities of researchers and practitioners. The projects will create projects that align, synthesise, or consolidate already existing knowledge on urban migration across disciplines on national and local levels. Participating countries in this call are Austria, Germany, Latvia, Sweden and United Kingdom.
The call focuses on the ways that migration affects and is affected by the life and functioning of cities. JPI Urban Europe aims for a broad scrutiny of urban migration, which is why the selected projects together represent a mix of migration types, categorized based on the following three principles (World Economic Forum, 2017):
> By political boundaries (internal vs. international migration)
> By movement patterns (step, circular or chain migration) or
> By taking a decision-making approach (voluntary vs. involuntary migration)
The results from projects granted in this call will help to facilitate knowledge transfer and learning from different European contexts, cities and countries to create greater engagement and understanding in migrant as well as host communities.
Projects consist of at least three eligible applicants from at least three participative countries. Partners from third countries are welcome in consortium but need funding from other sources. The call is organised in three call topics: 1) Socio-spatial integration and citizen involvement, 2) Urban governance of housing issues and 3) Enhancing cities’ administrative capacities and supporting evidence-based integration policies (managing migration). Applicants come from companies, cities, regions, municipalities and research organisations. At least one relevant non-academic stakeholder, problem owner or practitioner must be part of the consortia.
The projects will work with various areas of urban migration, ranging from training community-based researchers and gender-aware methods, local strategies to address the exclusion from essential services of migrants with precarious residential status, arts-programmes for migrants and placemaking linkages. Some projects will practice living labs, such as ‘Practices-of-Sharing-Labs’ – a form of urban real-world experiments, to test practices of sharing. Several projects focus on housing: Long-term housing, innovative housing strategies and new types of housing with elements of collaboration and participation.
“The ‘Urban Migration’ call wanted to bring together already existing knowledge on migration across disciplines and countries and translate this knowledge into concrete action. The eight selected projects meet these goals perfectly and will facilitate knowledge transfer and learning from different contexts, cities and countries. In this way, a knowledge base on urban migration can be formed as a basis for future JPI Urban Europe activities in the field.”
– Johannes Bockstefl, Call Secretariat
The following projects have been awarded funding in the Urban Migration call.
Partners:
Keele University – School of Geography
University of Gothenburg – Dept of Sociology and Work Science
University of Applied Sciences Bochum
IFAK e.V.
Father Hudsons Care (Brushstrokes community Project)
University of Birmingham
Bergsjöns Församling
Abstract:
The Empowering Cities of Migration project will create and train a new group of Community-based researchers drawn from marginalised neighbourhoods across three European cities experiencing population change. The researchers will use gender-aware methods to work with local communities, organisations and actors to develop new approaches for involving local people in tackling housing and urban planning problems. Through bringing together existing work undertaken by the project team, the overall intention is to empower local residents to work with housing, migration and planning specialists on creating new housing responses which help to avoid segregation and exclusion in diverse urban places
Partners:
University of Oxford – Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Technische Universität Wien – Raumplanung
Hochschule Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Abstract:
This project aims at mapping and enhancing local strategies to address the exclusion from essential services of migrants with precarious residential status. It will explore the challenges migrants face, emphasising the particular experiences of women, the services available in some cities such as healthcare and shelter, and the rationales for them. Case studies in Cardiff, Frankfurt and Vienna, in partnership with city councils and consultation with stakeholders, will explore differing approaches to provision within contrasting legal frameworks, including collaboration between public services and civil society. The project will strengthen transnational networking and knowledge exchange to inform and enhance future practice.
Partners:
Universität Kassel – Institut für urbane Entwicklungen
Royal Institute of Technology – KTH School of Architecture
University of Sheffield – School of Architecture
Goldsmiths, University of London – Centre for Research Architecture
Technische Universität Wien – Raumplanung
Uppsala University – Institute for Housing and Urban Research
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft HTW Berlin
Abstract:
The project aims to explore: 1) forms and conditions in which residents of socially mixed neighbourhoods share spaces and resources in housing and public space, and 2) the potential and limits of sharing for bringing diverse populations together. Partners will first exchange results on previous/ongoing research. Then, as a continuation of the StadtTeilen-project, they will conduct participative action research in different neighbourhoods across eight European cities and implement ‘Practices-of-Sharing-Labs’, a form of urban realworld experiments, in which to test different practices of sharing. Results will be circulated to the scientific community, stakeholders, and the general public.
Project Partners:
Dr Jonathan Rock Rokem (PI), University of Kent, UK
Prof. Ann Legeby, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Prof. Antonie Schmiz, Free University Berlin, Germany
Prof. Laura Vaughan, University College London, UK
Dr. Susanne Wessendorf, Coventry University, UK
Public Sector Partners:
Growth and Regional Planning Office, Stockholm, Sweden
Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing, Germany
The City of Sundbyberg, Sweden
Marabouparken Art Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, UK
Abstract:
MAPURBAN will bring to light differences in access to urban resources across the socio-economic and ethnic profile of three major cities. By comparing migrant arrival and settlement in Stockholm, Berlin and London, the project will integrate existing data on spatial inequality and urban segregation, and show how these affect migrant mobility and integration. Taken together, this is argued to have an impact on newly arriving people’s participation in urban society and in expanding their ‘right to the city’. MAPURBAN will utilise interdisciplinary multinational research findings to produce new knowledge that will inform government strategies towards urban migration, re-framing immigrant integration as a multi-scalar (national, urban and local) process that contributes to sustainable urban development. We will consider: Regional public transport mobility and access to urban resources, Urban policies promoting local migrant infrastructure and policy formation, and Neighbourhood interventions undertaking co-creative projects with local communities. By comparing multi-scale social and spatial data across three cities, MAPURBAN will provide new findings on access to urban resources through the application of different participatory tools, to promote equal living conditions, enhance accessibility and mobility, and ultimately, integration, especially for new arrivals to the city.
Partners:
Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik gGmbH
Umeå University – Geography
Caritas der Erzdiözese Wien – Hilfe in Not
Universität Wien – Institut für Soziologie
Abstract:
The project “Inclusive Housing” aims to deal with the various obstacles refugees are facing in term of access to long-term housing perspectives. The project partners from Austria, Germany and Sweden gained extensive expertise in the field of migration, integration and potentials of the housing market in current research projects. They will share their insights and learn from specific local challenges and approaches. In close cooperation with relevant stakeholders the consortium will elaborate on recommendations regarding future housing policies and practices to enhance the housing situation and access to housing in the core for refugees but also for other disadvantaged groups in the context of urban migration.
Partners:
Gothenburg Research Institute GRI at University of Gothenburg
Chalmers University of Technology – Dept. of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Johannes Kepler, Aschauer Corporate Governance Forschungs GmbH
Lancaster University, Institute for Social Futures
Swedish Union of Tenants
Egnahemsfabriken, Tjörn
Integration Unit of the Municipality of Tjörn
wohnbund:consult eG
IBA_Vienna
Community Led Housing, London hub
London Borough of Camden
Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust
UK Cohousing Trust
Neunerimmo
Abstract:
For many refugees in European cities, finding affordable quality accommodation is a significant challenge replete with obstacles. Yet, decent housing is key to their successful integration into the local community since it provides social contacts, access to services and employment. In contrast to traditional social housing, new types of housing have emerged across Europe with a stronger focus on collaboration, participation and social support among residents. This project explores the potential of such collaborative housing solutions for the long-term integration of refugees. It will deliver recommendations for urban policy-making based on our studies in Austria, Sweden and the UK.
Partners:
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ
University of Latvia – Department of Anthropology Studies
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung
Stadt Leipzig, Referat für Migration und Integration
Internationale Frauen Leipzig e.V.
Zusammen e.V.
Eutropian GmbH
Shelter Safe House
Lund University – Housing Development & Management
university college london – development planning unit
Malmö University – School of Arts and Communication
Abstract:
The HOUSE-IN project consortium sees housing as an important element of migrants` social inclusion within urban neighbourhoods and draws on extensive related research. The expertise and established networks allow to cooperatively identify remaining gaps at the housing-integration intersection. The project collects innovative housing strategies, assesses their impact and potential for local integration and stimulates co-creation and co-design processes using the Urban Living Labs approach. In cooperation with multiple local and European stakeholders, HOUSE-IN creates comprehensive knowledge and applicable innovative solutions to achieve better integration through housing in European cities.
Partners:
University of Nottingham – University of Nottingham
Leibniz Universität Hannover – Institut für Berufspädagogik und Erwachsenenbildung
Lund university – Department of Educational Sciences
Nottingham City Council
Abstract:
Since 2015 cities across Europe have increasingly become destinations for young forced migrants. This project brings together city leaders, artists, and researchers to promote integration and increase social participation in communities affected by migration. Given that participation in the arts can enhance place-making and encourages social belonging, this project will develop, implement, and evaluate arts-programmes for migrants in case-study cities in England, Germany, and Sweden. It will understand barriers to social integration amongst refugees and host communities, especially relating to gender This will lead to knowledge translation from this empirical study to develop sustainable solutions to social integration and citizenship.
>> Please forward questions to the international call secretraiat (and see the call page for national contact points):
Johannes Bockstefl, FFG
E-mail: johannes.bockstefl@ffg.at
Tel.: +43 (0)5 7755-5042