Europe: Migration research to get a 200 mio. euro boost from EU programme

During the first three years, more than €120 million will be spent on projects exploring:

• effects of migration on host communities, including integration of migrants into European societies and labour markets, challenges as e.g. the assessment and recognition of migrants' skills and qualifications, or the integration of migrant children. Research will also look into social barriers to integration, how cultural and core values are translated into integration policies and initiatives, and to what extent these values are shared in Europe.
• drivers of migration, including conflicts and crises as immediate trigger, and deeper roots like underlying trends in demographics, climate change, poverty, and globalisation of transport and communications
• different types of migration, viewing migration as a temporary or cyclical rather than a permanent or linear phenomenon

€ 2 million will be allocated to further developing EU’s Science4Refugees. This initiative launched in 2015 has been helping refugees with a scientific background to find jobs with European scientific institutions. 

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