Partnering with Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, this project connected students of the MA in Migration, Mobility and Culture and PhD researchers in UCC with people in Cork seeking international protection. Glencree supported the recruitment of community-based participant and led the sessions on the trauma-informed Capacitar International Multicultural Wellness Programme. Through these sessions and collaging activities, this project fostered awareness of challenges for those participating and created inclusive, healing spaces. Capacitar and collaging were chosen to reduce potential linguistic/cultural barriers and facilitate collective spaces for community building. The project connected students better to the world around them and strengthened their sense of civic duty. It facilitated their work directly with marginalised communities and ensured a tangible understanding of the more abstract concepts from their classroom learning/research projects. For participants seeking international protection, it increased their sense of wellbeing, belonging and community in Cork. Objectives:

• Co-design meetings and activities with participants.

• Facilitate three workshops—two in Cork, one in Glencree.

• Support students in reflective practice that helped them align the theoretical learning with the practical elements of the community-based project.

• Invite active and ongoing participation in planning from all participants to enhance inclusion and belonging with each step.