UNDETERRED is not designed to describe discrimination — it is designed to dismantle it. This means combining rigorous fieldwork with real-world experimentation, and working alongside the institutions that shape people’s daily lives.
Four phases, one logic
Survey → Knowledge → Experiment → Disseminate
The project follows a continuous research-action cycle:
- Survey — Large-scale quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews with young adults, employers, public services and associations across four cities
- Knowledge — A shared typology of unintentional discrimination processes, built comparatively across Bordeaux, Barcelona, Bucharest and Lausanne
- Experiment — Co-designed pilots tested in real institutions, not labs
- Disseminate — Policy tools, training resources and publications that reach the people who can use them
Three things that set us apart
Mixed methods at scale
Thousands of survey respondents. Hundreds of in-depth interviews. Focus groups across four cities. The combination documents both the breadth and the texture of systemic discrimination.
A genuinely comparative framework
The same tools, the same questions, four different cities — making it possible to see the structural pattern beneath local variation.
Partners as co-designers
Bordeaux Métropole, CCI Bordeaux Gironde, URHAJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine are not recipients of our findings. They help build the questions, challenge the results, and co-design the solutions.