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MAGnituDe - Migration, Affective Geopolitics and European Democracy in Times of Military Conflicts- is a research and innovation project funded by the European Union within Horizon Europe programme. Launched in February 2025, the project runs for 48 months, concluding in 2029. The project is coordinated by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. It brings together a diverse consortium of universities, research institutes and civil society organisations across Europe, including Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Zavod Apis, Help Ukraine Gothenburg, the Lithuanian Center for Social Sciences, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, University of Eastern Finland, University of Gdańsk, and University of Greifswald.

Blog

Martin Kerntopf
20/07/2026

Applying a new method: What happens if we adopt the SensArticulate approach in qualitative inquiry?

By Nena Močnik, WP1 Lead The first pilot implementation of SensArticulate, an affect-centred, arts-based methodology developed within the MAGnituDe project, invited experienced qualitative researchers from

Martin Kerntopf
29/05/2026

Affect in Geopolitics: Bringing Forcibly Displaced Persons (FDPs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) Into Focus

MAGnituDe has just launched its country-specific policy reports – covering Germany, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Sweden – focusing on labour market, education, and housing,

04/11/2025

The Body that Knows: The Birth of SensArticulate Methods

For years, research has been framed as the accumulation of words, metrics, numbers, and citations; and knowledge reduced to what can be measured, coded, or

Multimedia

07/09/2025

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Advisory Board

Mateusz Tokarski

Works as policy analyst at European Commission’s Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy, supporting participatory processes in the area of environment and youth engagement. Most recently, he has been involved in the setting-up and implementation of an EU-level Young Citizens Assembly

Ricard Zapata Barrero

Full Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona-Spain). Director of GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration) and the Track Migration Studies of the Master on Governance

Magdalena Nowicka

Sociologist with research expertise in migration and migrant transnationalism in Europe, diversity, conviviality and racism. Nowicka is Head of Department Integration in the DeZIM Institute and honorary professor in the Institute of Social Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin

Jenny Phillimore

Chair of Migration and Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham. She was Founding Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

Team

Iga Nowicz

Institution: University of Greifswald (UGR)
Role in the project: Project member

Maja Grabkowska

Institution: Uniwersytet Gdański, University of Gdańsk (UG)
Role in the project: Project member

Elżbieta Czapka

Institution: Uniwersytet Gdański, University of Gdańsk (UG)
Role in the project: Project member

Marta Anna Grzechnik

Institution: Uniwersytet Gdański, University of Gdańsk (UG)
Role in the project: Co lead-WP 3

Olena Muradyan

Institution: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Educational and Scientific Institute of Sociology and Mediacommunications
Role in the project: Project member

Alexander Drost

Institution: IFZO, Universität Greifswald (UGR)
Role in the project: WP lead WP 5

Olga Filippova

Institution: Itä-Suomen Yliopisto (University of Eastern Finland, UEF)
Role in the project: Project Member

Lauri Havukainen

Institution: Itä-Suomen Yliopisto (University of Eastern Finland, UEF)
Role in the project: Project member

Olga Davydova-Minguet

Institution: Itä-Suomen Yliopisto (University of Eastern Finland, UEF)
Role in the project: WP lead WP 4

Dmytro Mamaiev

Institution: LSMC-Lietuvos socialinių mokslu centras
Role in the project: Project member