Dipl.-Soz. Susanne Huth, researcher at NBAS Sozialforschung in Francfort sur Main (Germany) since 2003 after five years at ISIS- Institut fûr Soziale Infrastruktur (1998-2003) and four years at the University Johan Wolfgang Goethe (1997-2001). She is graduate at this University in Sociology (Master 2). Her main fields of research are: family, seniors, migrants and ethnic minorities. She is the initiator of the project MEM-VOL (2003) whose main goal was to make a state of the art on researches implemented in the field of volunteering and on migration in order to build bridges between these two areas. The project was supported by te EU and the Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Younsgters in Germany. She was the German partner of the Involve project which was inspired by the results of the Mem-Vol project.