Integration Futures Working Group
Since its launch in 2016 with funding from the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Integration Futures Working Group has provided a critical platform for senior leaders to debate new ideas on the future of integration policy in Europe. It brings together senior integration policymakers, experts, and civil-society and private-sector leaders to create a platform for long-term strategic thinking, drawing on regular meetings and original research.
Its agenda is organised around several questions shaping the future of integration policy in Europe:
- Restoring public trust. It is exploring the levers available to policymakers to rebuild trust in governments’ ability to manage migration and integration fairly, and how to design services that mitigate pressures on communities.
- Pillars of effective integration governance. As integration policy is evolving in response to political, demographic, and labour market pressures, integration policymakers are grappling with core tensions, including how to balance migration management and integration concerns.
- AI, behavioural insights, and data innovation. The Working Group is exploring how AI and other tools can personalise integration pathways, how behavioural insights can strengthen programme effectiveness, and how innovations in collecting and analysing data can improve outcome monitoring.
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Doing More with Less: A new toolkit for integration policy
Facing tight budgets and political headwinds after the 2015–16 migration crisis, European integration policymakers can borrow tools from other fields to do more with less.
Communicating Strategically about Immigrant Integration: Policymaker perspectives
Interviews across Europe reveal how governments can communicate more strategically about immigrant integration in an increasingly polarised environment.
Breaking New Ground: Ten ideas to revamp integration policy in Europe
MPI Europe's Integration Futures project offers European policymakers a road map for modernising integration amid rising populism and automation.
The Next Frontier in Immigrant Integration Policy? Using Behavioral Insights to Foster Social Cohesion
Speakers on this webinar explore what untapped potential behavioral insights may hold for immigrant integration policy, and how policymakers can start fitting this approach into their work.
Preparing Newcomers for the Jobs of Today and the Labor Markets of Tomorrow
This MPI Europe webinar examines how governments can better equip newcomers—and indeed citizens—with the skills to thrive in the job markets of the future. And beyond preparing public services and contribution-based benefit schemes for the changing world of work, what are the alternative ways that can be developed for those newcomers unable to find work to meaningfully and measurably contribute to society?
Jobs in 2028: How will changing labor markets affect immigrant integration in Europe?
Shifting labour markets will compound integration barriers for Europe's immigrants—and the same investments that prepare newcomers for work will benefit all workers.
Tech Jobs for Refugees: Assessing the potential of coding schools for refugee integration in Germany
Coding schools show promise as a refugee integration pathway in Germany, but only technical training plus soft skills and certification reform can make that promise durable.
Applying behavioural insights to support immigrant integration and social cohesion
Behavioural insights remain untapped in integration policy, yet evidence from health and tax shows they can improve cohesion and service access at low cost.
Can New Digital and Pedagogical Innovations Help Bridge Education Gaps for Migrant Children?
Marking the release of an MPI Europe report, Mainstreaming 2.0: How Europe’s Education Systems Can Boost Migrant Inclusion, this webinar considers how future education systems and classroms might support children with migrant backgrounds and diverse learners.
Designing Civic Education for Diverse Societies: Models, tradeoffs, and outcomes
Civic education in Europe is being pressed to address radicalisation, integration, and civic renewal—but tradeoffs between competing programme models remain unresolved.
