About

The Repository of Refugee-Led Organisations Across Europe is a database that maps and amplifies the work of organisations led by forcibly displaced and stateless persons across Europe. This initiative aims to recognise, connect, and strengthen these organisations, ensuring their voices and impact are visible to funders, policymakers, and partners.

How to use the Repository

You can use this platform to discover organisations of different size, in different countries, doing various activities; trace the evolution of organisations in Europe from 2015 to today; and understand where the funding for these organisations comes from.

Explore it yourself

Make your organisation visible

By completing a short survey available in nine languages, your organisation will:

· Be featured in the repository

· Gain visibility among networks that can support your mission, from donors to policy actors.

· Contribute to collective learning and advocacy by sharing your experiences, priorities, and challenges.

Your input will help build a clearer picture of the landscape, strengthen collaboration, and support more inclusive policy and practice.

Take the survey.

Related publications

PICCOLI, Lorenzo, LEON SALVADOR, Erendira, MEIXNER-YUN, Tae Kyeong, MOVILEANU, Daniela Roxana, WALI AHMAD YAR, Ahmed, Refugees as humanitarian actors : explaining the creation of organisations led by displaced and stateless persons in Europe, EUI, RSC, Working Paper, 2025/52, Migration Policy Centre.

The names behind the Repository

This Repository is produced by the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the European University Institute, in collaboration with the UNHCR Europe Regional Bureau and the NCCR on the move.

The Principal Investigator is Lorenzo Piccoli. The Project Assistants are Erendira Leon Salvador, Tae Kyeong Meixner-Yun, Daniela Movileanu, and Ahmad Wali Ahmad Yar. The interactive visualisation was realised by Andreas Perret.

If you would like to cite this repository in your work, please use the following format: Piccoli, L., Leon Salvador, E., Meixner-Yun, T., Movileanu, D., Ahmad Yar, W. (2025), Repository of Refugee-Led Organisations in Europe, Migration Policy Centre.