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Project High quality research – precondition for a successful integration has been supported by the European Fund for Integration of Third Countries Nationals, part of the Program “Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows”.

Main goal of the project was to increase quality of integration policies. Project aimed to compare integration policies in various countries of the EU; to prepare set of new indicators for evaluation of integration policies; to analyze particular bodies involved in integration policies; to analyze perception of migrants on integration policies; and to assess strengths and weaknesses of integration policies in Slovakia. 

In order to achieve goals of the project researchers conducted nine activities that were interconnected:

1. Comparative research of integration policies in other countries with a focus on managed migration;
2. Proposal of new indicators of integration policies in order to improve evaluation and further development of integration policies;

3. Analysis of activities of particular key-players within integration policies;
4. Qualitative research focused on experiences of legal migrants with integration in the Slovakia;
5. Analysis of integration level of particular groups of legal migrants;
6. Summary analysis of weak and strong dimensions of integration policies in Slovakia;
7. Research in the sphere of relevance and interconnections between integration policies and state policy in the sphere of social inclusion focused on autochtonous minorities and marginalized groups;
8. Publication with all research findings and with recommendations how to improve integration policies;
9. Seminar on research findings in the sphere of integration policy.

Altogether 16 authors has been working  on the final publication of the project “Integration of migrants – do we know what we want? Policies of integration in the Slovak republic in a comparative perspective“: 

Zuzana Bargerová, 

Lucia Bezáková, 

Peter Brnula, 

Michal Cenker, 

Elena Gallová-Kriglerová,

Alena Chudžíková,

Marek Harakaľ, 

Daniela Jankelová,

Judit Kontseková, 

Ctibor Košťál, 

Ľudmila Malíková, 

Juraj Mišina, 

Tereza Modráková, 

Alexandra Suchalová, 

Michal Vašečka, 

Robert Žitňanský.

The book has been published by the Institute of Public Policy of the Comenius Universityat the end of 2009, with a kind support of the European Fund for Integration of Third Countries Nationals.