Roundtables and policy briefs

Policy report on best practices and lessons learned

Cross-country evaluation report of best practices and lessons learned
of welcoming spaces and initiatives in shrinking areas of Europe

Policy brief January 2021 #0

This policy brief addresses our first insights after conducting the quick scan in the five partner countries.

Policy brief February 2024 #1

This policy brief addresses the local challenges that follow from the arrival of Ukrainian refugees in rural, peripheral areas in the Netherlands.

Policy brief May 2024 #2

This policy brief discusses eight issues that are relevant for welcoming initiatives to prosper.

Final conference Welcoming Spaces and policy round table ‘‘Welcoming Europe’? Understanding migration in the context of global ageing, depopulation and rural-urban transformation’. More information about the event can be found here.

Round table ‘Welcoming Spaces Forum: Policy challenges for migrant emplacement in rural areas’ – 6 October 2023, Santiago de Compostela (Spain). The main take-aways can be found here.

Round table ‘Leaving, Staying, Returning? The role of the imaginary in the relationship between migrations and territories’ – 26 November 2022, Camini (Italy). More information about the event can be found here.

Round table ‘Agency, Entrepreneurship and Employment: Learning from each other about and from migrants’ – 22 September 2022, Saalfeld, Thuringia (Germany). More information about the event can be found here.

Round table ‘Co-designing an inclusive Europe. Migration and migrants in the EU: Changing narratives – modifying practices – influencing policies’ – 1 March 2022, Brussels (Belgium). More information about the event can be found here.