What We Do

We encourage people to acquire the skills needed to maintain a healthy democracy, a constructive culture of debate, as well as political and societal inclusion. We also strengthen innovative civic participation formats in order to complement representative democracy, meaning more people regard themselves as shapers of political processes. This strengthens critical trust in democracy and its legitimacy.

We support municipalities in the (further) devolopements of their inclusion strategies and empower the migrant shaped civil society. International collaboration opens access to good practice in other countries.

Transforming conflict requires time and approaches on all levels of society. Together with those directly impacted by conflicts, we want to shape inclusive peace processes and implement projects locally. Furthermore, we promote the voices of local actors on the international stage while contributing findings of our work to peacebuilding debates and activities.

We support international actors who strive to achieve an equitable transformation of land use, address issues of distribution, and develop innovative solutions that can be upscaled. In doing so, we focus on regenerative practices in agriculture and forestry, a climate-friendly food system, and sustainable policies and frameworks.

Our objective is to help shape migration policy, governance and practice through far-sighted, inclusive approaches that center around human dignity as a guiding principle. Our areas of focus are: future issues of migrant and refugee protection, human mobility in the context of climate change, the inclusion of cities in migration governance, and technological change. We are committed to cross-sectoral and interregional dialogue.

We seek to improve the level of awareness of the causes and effects of inequality in both research and practice. We focus particularly on the issue of how different forms of inequality and discrimination interact and influence each other. We support actors tackling inequality by providing spaces to share ideas and develop approaches, which address all forms of inequality and exclusion.