Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.8 Fte (8)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Migration Policy Group (MPG)
EU Transparency Register
053633352874-07 First registered on 01 Mar 2024
Goals / Remit
The Migration Policy Group is an independent Brussels-based think-and-do tank. We conduct evidence-based projects, research and campaigns in the areas of integration, migration and anti-discrimination.
MPG is an independent non-profit organisation that uses the strength of its innovative research and networks to advance evidence-based migration, integration and anti-discrimination policies. We support creating diverse societies that invest in their future.
MPG employs a multi-dimensional methodology to connect people and provide facts, comparative analysis, training, pilot projects and advice to enable stakeholders to improve legislation, policies and practices.
We articulate this mission through four primary activities:
Gathering, analysing and sharing information
Creating opportunities for dialogue and mutual learning
Engaging stakeholders in policy debate
Establishing, inspiring and managing expert networksMain EU files targeted
Migration and asylum (facilitation directive, and new Pact on Asylum and Migration for example)
Integration (action plan on inclusion for refugees and migrants, Common basic principles for immigrant integration policy )
Anti-discrimination (standards for equality bodies and horizontal equal treatment proposed directives for example)
Political participation (European democracy action plan for example)Address
Head Office
avenue de Tervueren 32-34
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMEU Office
avenue de Tervueren 32-34
Brussels 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
8
Employment time Lobbyists 10% 8 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.8
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
MPG is not a membership organisation and we are not affiliated to any other organisation.
MPG is only a member of the SIRIUS Network (Policy Network for Migrants Education), where it participates to specific projects, https://www.sirius-migrationeducation.org/our-members/Member organisations
MPG is not a membership organisation and we, therefore, do not have members.
MPG participates to the EPAM group's meetings (European NGO Platform on Asylum and Migration, which is an informal network of NGOs working in the field of migration). -
Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
1,347,214€
Major funding types in closed year
Other
Funding types "other" information
Core grant from the Oak Foundation (philanthropic sector)
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Oak foundation 125,832€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant CERV Citizenship, equality, rights and values programme 263,680€ Other financial info
The 2023 financial year is not yet officially closed (The deadline in Belgium is 30 June 2024), our General assembly needs to approve the closing of the accounts at the end of April 2024.
For information MPG received a grant from the CERV Citizenship, equality, rights and values programme in 2023 for a total amount of 263469€
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
MPG has quite some publications in the areas mentioned above. https://www.migpolgroup.com/index.php/publications/
Most of these publications are reports from EU funded projects or contracts (for example: European benchmark for refugee integration, a comparative analysis of the National integration evaluation mechanism in 14 EU countries, for the NIEM project, 2021; Integration practices validation grid for the Spring project, 2022; VoteEuropa 2024 Get out the vote campaign toolkit, 2023 and Policy Brief: Enhancing Electoral Participation of Mobile Voters in the European Parliament Elections, 2024 for the New Europeans Initiative, European equality Law Review 2023 for the European Network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination ; Toolbox: Local Strategies for Effective Migrant and Refugee Integration for the Wholecom project 2024.
MPG is currently running a campaign to mobilise voters of migrant origin to participate in the 2024 EU elections.Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
None declared