Research into practice

Insights for municipalities, NGOs and social-service organisations.

Short professional articles based on published and applied research, written for people designing, evaluating and improving services.

Municipal innovation

Co-creation processes and innovative municipal services

Co-creation becomes useful when it changes how a municipality understands a problem, shares responsibility and implements services—not when it ends with a workshop.

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Evaluation

How to evaluate a co-creation process

A useful evaluation should examine who shaped the process, how collaboration worked, what changed, and whether the result can be implemented.

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Social innovation

What makes social innovation work in transitional contexts?

In transitional and post-conflict settings, new services depend not only on good ideas but on adaptation, financing, user participation, relationships and a path to sustainability.

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Civil society

Civil society organisations and social innovation

Civil society organisations do more than fill service gaps: they connect actors, adapt ideas, test new practices and create knowledge that can reshape welfare systems.

6 min readResearch-based
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Migration & children

Migration, migrant children and social services

Effective support must understand children within cross-border family relationships and connect informal care with accessible, culturally responsive formal services.

7 min readResearch-based
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Education & inclusion

School bullying and children with migrant backgrounds

Why universal prevention can overlook identity-based harm—and how schools can combine evidence, intercultural competence and participation.

7 min readResearch-based
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Children & families

Family Group Conferences: turning participation into shared decisions

How structured family-led planning works and which implementation conditions protect participation, safety and follow-through.

7 min readResearch-based
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