Immigration professionals experience integration in Turkey is a Grundtvig Learning Partnership project. It is targeted at policy-makers, educators, people working in reception centres and other social services – in short, anyone working closely with immigrants, especially in the initial phase of integration. The project aims to raise awareness of intercultural issues – encouraging professionals to see the importance of looking at the integration process from the immigrants’ point of view. The project brought together partners from 6 countries to devise a new way of kick-starting the process of changing perspectives. It was decided to create a simulation of some of the experiences undergone by immigrants: partners organised a special induction course in Turkey, with Turkish as the main language for communication. During this course, the professionals put themselves in the place of their clients to gain first-hand insights into what the integration process feels like from the immigrants’ point of view. To extend the process of reflection to a wider group of professionals, results were presented at an international conference which focused on good practice. A European network of practitioners has been established through the project website to further disseminate and stimulate new pedagogical approaches.