The art-based activities offered additional room for creative expression on their own experiences and empowered young migrants and locals directly. The project highlights how different localities and institutions deal with the integration of young migrants living in vulnerable conditions, and how they interact with the local population and collects innovative ideas and techniques to promote integration across diverse sectors and contexts in the EU. MIMY was also in close exchange with local, regional, and national stakeholders and policymakers active in the field of youth migration, and involved them in various research activities: the stakeholder platform, the Delphi Study, integration workshop and a policy roundtable during the final project conference in Brussels. The project published evidence-based policy recommendations, a Handbook on promising integrative practices, and a Synthesis report. Finally, MIMY contributed to each studied locality independently by exploring the integration process together with representatives of the local population, practitioners, and migrants in order to foster the well-being and active participation of young migrants. MIMY aims to improve knowledge, visibility of the issues at stake, mutual understanding, communication, and policy-making in the field of migrant youth integration in Europe. MIMY intends to foster inclusive, non-discriminatory, and innovative policies, support the integration of vulnerable young migrants, and offer them the space to influence their own development in the new host societies. MIMY aims in the long term to support the social integration of vulnerable young migrants and to promote diversity and an inclusive society within Europe by offering an opportunity to discuss and connect different groups within society to foster social cohesion and the integration of migrants. The direct involvement of young migrants via peer research, and participatory research activities ensured the direct empowerment of young migrants by giving them a direct voice. These reflections can be read at the MIMY youth blog on the project website. The project developed a theory on ‘liquid integration’ and created a knowledge base on current integration policies and implementation at the European, national, and local level focusing on young migrants living in vulnerable conditions. MIMY published research and practice-driven recommendations on the integration of young adult migrants for policymakers, policy users, and researchers delivering evidence from the rich quantitative and qualitative data material gathered throughout the project in its 18 case studies.
