MULTIKULTURNI CENTRUM PRAHA, Z.S.

Their core work

Multicultural Centre Prague is a Czech civil society organization focused on migration, refugee integration, and intercultural dialogue in Central Europe. In European research projects, they contribute the practical, on-the-ground expertise of an NGO working directly with migrant and refugee communities — bridging academic research with lived social reality. Their H2020 work spans both policy-relevant labour market integration research and humanities-oriented inquiry into the cultural and historical dimensions of migration. They are most valuable in consortia that need a civil society partner with community access and cross-disciplinary reach across social sciences and the humanities.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their early H2020 engagement (SIRIUS, 2018) was firmly rooted in applied social policy — labour market access, employment barriers, and social integration for refugees and asylum seekers, with a practical, policy-facing orientation. By 2019, their involvement in MOVES marked a shift toward the cultural and historical study of migration, introducing themes of colonialism, modernity, narrative, and representation that are more at home in humanities research than in policy analysis. In just two projects, they cover a wide disciplinary arc — from labour economics and social welfare to postcolonial history and cultural studies — suggesting they are a generalist civil society voice on migration rather than a narrow technical specialist.

The trajectory points toward humanities-oriented and transdisciplinary migration research, suggesting future fit in consortia at the intersection of social sciences, cultural studies, and migration governance.

How they like to work

They have never coordinated a project, joining once as a funded participant and once as a third-party partner — a pattern typical of civil society organizations that add value through community legitimacy rather than research leadership. Despite only two projects, they have worked within large consortia totalling 32 distinct partners across 11 countries, indicating comfort operating in complex, multinational research networks. This profile suits collaborators who want a credible, well-networked civil society voice without expecting them to drive project management or technical deliverables.

With 32 unique consortium partners across 11 countries from just two projects, the organization has been embedded in large-scale European research networks. Their reach is firmly European, with probable concentration in Central and Eastern Europe given their Prague base and focus on migration flows into the EU.

What sets them apart

As one of very few Czech civil society organizations with H2020 research credentials in migration and social integration, they occupy a niche that academic institutions in the region struggle to fill. Their dual capacity — practical integration work with refugee communities and engagement with humanities-oriented migration scholarship — makes them unusually versatile across research calls from both the Societal Challenges and Marie Skłodowska-Curie pillars. Consortia building around migration, asylum policy, or social cohesion that need a credible Central European NGO voice will find few comparable alternatives with their track record.

Highlights from their portfolio

• SIRIUS
  Their only funded H2020 project (EUR 71,890), directly addressing practical integration of migrants and refugees into European labour markets — the core of the organization's civil society mission.
• MOVES
  An MSCA-ITN training network that took a rare humanistic and postcolonial lens to migration history, showing the organization's reach beyond policy work into academic research training.