FOCUS: Forced displacement & refugee-host community solidarity
Inclusion
Funding
Horizon Europe
Geographic focus
Jordan, Croatia, Germany, Sweden
Dates
1 January 2019 –
30 June 2022
About
How psychological and social factors influence integration.
Project Outcomes
- The socio-psychological dimension of integration is a combination of different indicators of how the arriving and receiving communities “live well together”.
- Arriving communities across all four countries considered showed positive attitudes towards receiving communities while receiving communities had neutral to moderately positive attitudes.
- The FOCUS Approach highlights key steps to promote trust and reciprocity, social connectedness, wellbeing, resilience and a sense of belonging of all community members. This approach focuses on dynamic integration as a practical framework to foster social bonds and connections among arriving and receiving communities.
Highlighted Publications and Tools
- Project Summary – key findings and challenges in integration research
- FOCUS Living Well Together Resource – practical implementation guide to dynamic integration
Coordinator
Sabina Dziadecka Gråbæk, Senior Project Manager, Danish Red Cross
Partners
- IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support (PS Centre), Denmark (Coordinator)
- AND Consulting Group (AND), Brussels
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (FFZG)
- Malmö University (MAU)
- Center for Strategic Studies (CSS)
- University of Jordan
- Charité University Medicine Berlin
- Humboldt University (HU)
- The Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM at HU)
- ARTTIC (ART)
- Q4 Public Relations (Q4), Ireland
- Danish Red Cross (DRC)
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