The Whole-COMM project concluded over three years of research on migrant integration in small and medium-sized towns and rural areas with a Final Conference held in Brussels, which focused on empowering small localities in the governance of asylum.
This video looks back at the purpose of the Whole-COMM project and how it explored, over three years, what happened after the arrival of refugees and asylum seekers in small localities in 2014 and 2015, and how the different actors involved mobilized to cope with social change in these localities.
The video also presents Whole-COMM’s tools to support municipalities in understanding where they stand in integration policies and what they need to improve, and the project’s practical activities to bring people together and create empathy among the communities.
Small communities are really the place where things happen, and by bringing this feeling in the European Institutions we hope to mobilize the attention from Brussels to all these communities that are so vital in making Europe from the grassroots.
Tiziana Caponio, Whole-COMM Principal Investigator
