New funding to explore Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe

From more than 200 applications across Europe, Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) has announced that it will invest €20 million in 20 research teams under the call 'Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe'. One of the rewarded projects is located at the Geography Department of Utrecht Universty and is called ''.

Dr. Ilse van Liempt will be working with academic partners across Europe (Newcastle ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, Leibniz Insitute for Regional Geography and Liege ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ), as well as community, arts and cultural organisations in the cities under study: Amsterdam, Newcastle, Leipzig and Brussels. The research project will explore the issue of refugee youth, public space and integration in Europe, focusing on the role that arts and cultural initiatives play in the lives of refugee youth and how they engage with public space. The project is informed by qualitative and participatory methods with refugee youth including participant observation, interviews and group discussions alongside an innovative suite of creative methods including mental mapping, walk-along interviews, photography and digital story telling.