The project responds to the growing number of migrants in the partner countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belgium and Germany). It focuses on the uneasy situation of local authorities (LAs) that often have neither the tools nor the know-how about working with migrants, even though they are aware of both the importance of migrant inclusion into local communities and the need of setting functional integration measures and mechanisms.The project reflects also that it is necessary for integration stakeholders to take into account the specific needs of vulnerable groups in the European territories. In the time of dramatic changes and decline from normal practice caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be of vital importance, for municipalities in particular, to be able to deal with new situations of yet vulnerable migrants and, at the same time, to support the integration activities needed in the long term that are likely to get lost in the light of current events. The project builds on the paradigm that relevant information, proper estimation of potential difficulties and creating opportunities for mutual understanding are the essential conditions of social cohesion and living together peacefully even under difficult external conditions.In general, the project implies the transnational cooperation of renowned and by their nature diverse partnering entities from 4 EU countries and focuses on (a) creating innovative tools to facilitate migrant integration on regional and local levels as well as on (b) transferring social innovations between the EU member states and their adaptation to local needs. For that purposes, various peer-to-peer and self-assessment methods will be used whose potential lies precisely in sharing and evaluating practical experience from different perspectives for its further quality application in the emerging innovation project. The project activities are based on a shared European experience with approaches that proved to be functional in work with migrants and in activating local authorities to deal with this transversal area. As first, we plan 4 partner meetings that shall facilitate the exchange of information from (1) experienced mentors – the Belgian city of Mechelen being an an example of inclusive city, and the German organisation AGABY with a long-term experience in engaging migrants in municialities, (2) the Czech organisation SIMI, as the project leader that has been focusing on new ways to grasp the area of integration on regional level in recent years, and (3) the Slovak organisation Human Rights League that has been dealing with LAs in Slovakia. Besides the partners, also many of the LA representatives and other integration actors are expected to participate in the project, mainly during the four Integration Forums where expert public will be given space to discuss various aspects of migrant integration and ways to achieve functional and seamless coexistence of diverse local communities. The project outputs will be presented at the forums and some practical experience of the participats will be collected. In addition, an innovative methodology of integration workshops for LAs will be created, based on which two pilot integration workshops will be carried out in order to test this innovative tool in practice in the countries with a low involvement of municipalities in the integration area (Czechia and Slovakia). A new study on structural mechanisms of local integration in the 4 partner countries will be another output that shall help to understand the transferability of solutions. The study will serve as an impulse towards work with LAs by saturating the substantial lack of information about who can and should do what, which tools (financial or other) can be used, and what the migrant contribution to municipalities is. Finally, a practical guidebook shall help the LAs to facilitate the integration process and to capture it better in its entirety. Several information sheets and schemes will be published to summarize some partial aspects of integration: incl. recommended ways for communication of the LAs with migrants in emergency situations (based on the COVID-19 pandemic example) or ways on how to engage the LAs in the integration areas. The infosheets shall innovatively supplement the existing guidebook of local integration (created by the applicant organisation SIMI) through knowledge collected from stakeholders in partner countries. The guidebook will be accompanied by tools such as e-learning for officials (Slovakia), workshops for LAs (Slovakia and Czech Republic), and e-sources (Czech Republic). Other project partners will use these tools in modifications according to their local needs. To sum up, the project innovative outputs shall be the following: (1) a methodology and piloting of integration workshops for LAs, (2) a comparative study on structural dimension of local integration, (3) an innovated, extended and transferred guidebook for LAs.