Introduction: From Practitioners to Researchers

The European Network for Asylum Reception Organisations (ENARO), representing II European countries, has organised staff exchange visits since its establishment in 2002. Although the exchange programme has been successful in itself for more than five years, new dynamics are necessary to keep the programme vital and geared to the future. To achieve this, the University of Kent and ENARO have joined forces in an EU‐funded project called the ENARO Knowledge Transfer Hub, hereafter called the HUB. The aim of the HUB is to provide benefit to the staff exchanges on several levels. The project included the two exchanges in the year 2007.