The INNOVATE project is funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe R&D programme. The project aims to facilitate a step change in the types, scope, forms and impacts of Migration Research to Policy (MR2P) engagement. It does so through a series of Actions that develop, test, apply and communicate Process Innovations that are grounded in the needs and interests of researchers, policy-makers and other key stakeholders, including migrants, who are engaged with migration issues across governance levels from the local to the international. It embeds these within an MR2P Co-Lab with both a ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ presence comprising a Research Exchange, Engagement Hub and Training Facility.