ICOLMA Final Consortium Meeting

The ICOLMA consortium which included TU Dortmund University, University of Cape Town, University of The Western Cape and Federal University of ABC met in TU Dortmund at the Department of International Planning Studies from 26th to 28th November 2025. This workshop marked the final meeting as a consortium group to discuss research findings from Cape Town, Sao Paulo and Dortmund. For three days, the team deliberated on qualitative and quantitative methods used in the research, the comparative analysis and dissemination of the research findings. The results of the study will be published in various articles and presented in the upcoming DOKORP conference which will be held at TU Dortmund between 10th to 12th February under the track ‘Marginalisation in times of multiple crises’