About

With the growth of diversity in Small and Medium-sized Towns, many locales are now at the forefront of civic and integration policies and new opportunities are emerging.

Therefore, AMIF-funded PISTE project aims to improve the quality of civic and integration policies, promoting the participation of migrants in the design, implementation and evaluation of integration policies, and their peer assessment in Small and Medium-sized Towns (SMTs).

To do so, PISTE involves a partnership composed of 3 academic institutions, 4 Municipalities and 1 NGO located in 4 European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece and Italy).

The activities foreseen are:

  • Supporting evidence-based policy making;
  • Sharing and assessing policy measures, starting from partner and target municipalities and scaling up to the European level;
  • Promoting civic and political participation through co-design workshops involving actors from SMTs’ authorities and civil society;
  • Experimenting fine-tuned and revised local measures;
  • Disseminating outputs beyond the partnership via multilingual digital resources, collecting experiences and tools for policy innovation in European SMTs.