BEWEGING

Their core work

BEWEGING is a Brussels-based Belgian NGO specializing in narrative change and public dialogue around migration, integration, and social cohesion in Europe. Their core work involves designing and facilitating interventions — dialogues, art-based activities, social media experiments — that challenge one-sided media framings of migrants and refugees by creating space for multiple perspectives, including the voices of people with migration experience. They operate at the intersection of civic communication, media literacy, and community-level practice, translating social research on narrative dynamics into actionable tools for organizations and communities. In the OPPORTUNITIES project, which they coordinate, they develop what they call a "Level Telling Field" — a framework for ensuring migrant narratives receive equal footing alongside host-community perspectives in the European public sphere.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first H2020 project (RE-InVEST, 2015–2019), BEWEGING participated in broad European social policy research focused on solidarity, trust, and social investment — a wide-angle lens on inclusive Europe without a specific thematic focus on migration communication. By their second project (OPPORTUNITIES, 2021–2025), their focus had sharpened considerably into migration narratives, storytelling methodology, and dialogue facilitation, and they had moved from participant to project coordinator. The trajectory is clear: BEWEGING evolved from a broad civil society voice in European social policy into a specialist in narrative and communication interventions around migration and integration.

BEWEGING is moving toward becoming a recognized methodology center for narrative change work on migration — future collaborations will likely involve communication design, counter-narrative toolkits, and facilitated dialogue programs within European civic and media contexts.

How they like to work

BEWEGING has demonstrated both partnership and leadership capacity: they participated in RE-InVEST (a large multi-country consortium) and then stepped up to coordinate OPPORTUNITIES. Their cumulative network of 28 partners across 14 countries, built across just two projects, suggests they engage in broad European consortia rather than small bilateral collaborations. The coordinator role in OPPORTUNITIES, combined with the applied and community-facing nature of their work, indicates they are capable of driving project execution and managing multi-partner dissemination activities.

BEWEGING has built a network of 28 unique consortium partners spanning 14 countries across two projects, indicating strong European reach for an NGO of their size. Their Brussels base and P3-Society focus suggest a network weighted toward civil society organizations, academic partners in social sciences, and European policy-adjacent institutions.

What sets them apart

BEWEGING occupies a rare niche: a Belgian NGO that combines on-the-ground civic dialogue practice with EU-funded research methodology, specifically around migration communication. Unlike academic partners that study narratives from a distance, BEWEGING designs and runs the actual experiments — cross-talk dialogues, art-based sessions, social media interventions — making them a practitioner partner rather than just an analyst. For consortia working on migration, integration, or civic communication who need a partner that can bridge research and community action, BEWEGING brings both the credibility of a coordinator role and direct field experience.

Highlights from their portfolio

• OPPORTUNITIES
  Their largest project (€719,685) and the one they coordinate — focused on reframing migration narratives through a 'Level Telling Field' methodology, combining social media research, multiperspectivity dialogue, and art-based dissemination in a single RIA.
• RE-InVEST
  Their entry into H2020 as a participant in a pan-European project on social investment and European solidarity, establishing their credentials in society-pillar research before taking on a coordinator role.