We are happy to inform you that the Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration (EuroMedMig), from GRITIM-UPF, has been granted a Marie-Curie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network!

This Marie-Curie Doctoral Network, EuroMedMig PhD Network, whose proposal was scored a 97,8/100 by the European Commission selection committee, will last 4 years, and will have a budget of 3 Million euros that will allow us to create 12 PhD positions, distributed among EuroMedMig partner universities, provide joint training activities to Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), foster inter-academic stays, create activities aiming at fostering policy and social dialogues, and ultimately ensure interdisciplinary co-creation of knowledge and the creation of policy-oriented research capable of influencing the scientific and the political debate. ESRs will be able to develop their individual research projects in the following themes: governance, policies and politics, taxonomies of motions and drivers of migration, social and cultural transformations, and economy and labour market.

Activities envisaged as part of the training programme for ESRs include, among others, conceptual and methodological seminars, annual network conferences and summer schools, thematic workshops, research labs on ethics, transferable skills and career opportunities, etc. 

All in all, this is a key further step in consolidating EuroMedMig's perspective and research path, and in training the next generation of migration researchers from a holistic and Mediterranean perspective. 

EuroMedMig PhD Network, will involve partner universities from all rims of the Mediterranean: Koç University (Turkey), University of Sousse (Tunisia), Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), Université Mohammed V de Rabat (Morocco), Università degli Studi di Catania (Italy), Harokopio University (Greece), Université Côte d’Azur (France), Université de Liège (Belgium), University of New York Tirana (Albania).

EuroMedMig PhD Network also includes the involvement of key Associated Partners: IOM Morocco (Morocco), The European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed, Spain), Eurac Research (Italy), The American University in Cairo (Egypt), and the Centre Méditerranéen d’Études et de Recherches Internationales et Communautaires (CericMed, Morocco), which will all further contribute to bridge the gap between research and policy.  

This initiative is also the first action related to the MoU signed between EuroMedMig and the IEMed for the coming five years.

The following is the Abstract for the Doctoral Network:

EuroMedMig PhD Network creates a sound community of leading ESRs based on research excellence and following core research principles, being EuroMedMig the Interdisciplinary Research Network on Migrations in the Mediterranean coordinated by UPF, and its philosophy being that of promoting multilateral knowledge co-production on Migrations while ensuring geographic representativity and plurality of perspectives and disciplines. Against this background, 10 leading universities from all rims of the Mediterranean have joined efforts and engaged in this DN, which represents a quantum leap in training the next generation of researchers taking the Mediterranean as a regional scale of analysis.

More specifically, this DN revolves around 3 main pillars: promoting research excellence; developing advanced training for ESR, including methodological, ethical, conceptual and transferable skills training aiming at leveraging career prospects, and promoting inter-academic stays; and fostering policy and social dialogues by favouring policy-oriented research capable of influencing the scientific and the political debate in line with EU’s Euromed agenda. Regarding the latter, this DN seeks to establish connections with relevant multi-scale stakeholders and highly impactful policy recommendations will be produced. In turn, these efforts will enhance the role of Academia, and in particular, Academic Networks, in initiatives at the nexus of research, governance and policy. In particular, ESRs will be able to develop their individual research projects in the following themes: Governance, policies and politics, taxonomies of motions and drivers of migration, social and cultural transformations, and economy and labour market. These themes will also guide all EuroMedMig PhD Network’s training cumulative activities. In order to ensure successful ESRs progress, special attention will be devoted to the quality of supervision and mentoring, which will be key in leveraging ESR's potential.