This project will address immigrant communities as well as public authorities in three Baltic countries. The aims of the proposed project include bridging the tools, activities and concepts of citizen communities, on one hand, and the governments' top-down participation practices and technologies on the other, in terms of interoperability and integration. The expected outcomes materialize as recommendations for the integration of participatory activities of citizen communities with participation-facilitating approaches of governments by means of 1) Governance practices 2) Interaction and community design models 3) Interoperable and integrating technologies. Through these outcomes and actions, it will be possible to enhance social inclusion, participation, equality and greater social cohesion among marginalized groups. Manual will be produced to advice immigrant communities and authorities in the best practices for applying ICT to promote better social, political and cultural inclusion. As the Internet has become accessible to the majority of citizens in most European countries, it is justified to consider the new social media paradigm as a potential instrument of supporting citizens more effective social, political and cultural participation in the society (e-inclusion and e-participation). However, as emphasised in the EU's i2010 programme, and especially in the Riga Ministerial Declaration, many obstacles remain on the way of harnessing the new possibilities to the service of facilitating inclusion and participation of marginalized groups, in particular, outdated administrative practices and incompatible technologies. This holds also for the development areas of the Central Baltic countries. Recent advances of web-based Community and Collaborative Technologies (CCT), such as wikis, blogs and content sharing applications, appear to open new kinds of self-organizing community practices and applications that support these goals in a self-organizing bottom-up fashion. This inclusion through e-participation challenge in hand is mainly concentrated in the shore and capital city areas from which the project partners are from. All the partner organisations have been working with these issues, but they find that through cooperation these inclusion issues can be developed in a more effective way by means of bringing in cross-border added value. All the partners entail in somewhat different expertise to benefit the objectives of the project. WP structure - WP1 is responsible of management, dissemination and it supports all the activities in other WP's. WP2 (Immigrants´ e-inclusion practises and tools at community level) and WP3 (E-participation practises and tools for inclusion at authority level) will work together with immigrant and authority pilot groups that exploit the findings of the WP4 (Best e-participation practises/ tools for inclusion of immigrants). Achievements: The project IIeP improved social, political and cultural inclusion of immigrants in Estonia, Finland and Sweden. The project integrated tools, activities and concepts of citizen communities and the governments top-down participation practices and technologies. The outcomes of the project included recommendations for the integration of participatory activities of citizen communities with participation-facilitating approaches of governments. The project also produced a manual to advise immigrant communities and authorities on best practices for applying ICT to promote better social, political and cultural inclusion.