Our mission is to search for collective solutions to further improve the understanding of various societal and integration processes in Latvia. Our main activities include: • Support and exchange of ideas and knowledge between different research institutes and think-tanks; • Creation of a dialogue with different social groups: our institution as a platform for discussion; • Monitor the contemporary and topical research activities in various interlinked disciplines; • Organise research activities that seek to untangle the unresolved knots of various aspects of integration. We don't view integration politics as a to-do list in our calendar. Rather, we believe in the fundamental affirmation of a person's ability to empathise with and learn from another human being.