YOUMIG Improving institutional capacities and fostering cooperation to tackle the impacts of transnational youth migration

Please view our project videos and help spread the word about the important evidence-based approach to the topic of youth migration that YOUMIG (2017-2019) has carried out in collaboration with municipalities, statisticians and...

As one of their final tasks to complete, YOUMIG researchers collaborated on putting together national-level remmondations for improved cooperation on youth migration. These documents, one for each YOUMIG country, are hoped to close the often...

YOUMIG has published Working Paper 4, the last in its Working Papers Series, with a focus on the meeting points between local development, policy and youth migration. ’Youth migration and local governance in the Danube region. Challenges and...

The YOUMIG project (2017-2019) is drawing to a close. To share the project's results and discuss possibilities for research and policy as well as cooperation in the topic of (youth) migration, the project partners are cordially inviting you to...

In YOUMIG, 7 local videos were prepared to catch the best moments from the two-and-a-half years' of work undertaking in the project, researching and assessing the administrative challenges around youth migration. The videos were prepared by local...

YOUMIG cities have spent the past two years exploring the topic of youth migration from many angles, locally. Now they have published the essence of this intellectual journey involving knowledge exchanges and stakeholder networking in an...

Under the output title ’Local pilots for better services & inventory’ four YOUMIG-member municipalities have published detailed reports of their pilot actions – interventions for the management of youth migration-related issues that were tested...

What are the challenges partners encountered during data collection? While it may sound like a simple exercise, such a data collection is a tedious and time-consuming task, which also highlights the imperfections of the systems of data...

Why do we need a new dataset? YOUMIG’s Work Package 4 focuses on the collection of a range of indicators in such policy spheres as population, education, economy and the labour market, and social development. While the YOUMIG dataset is...

In 2017, Romania entered the top-5 of sending countries for immigrants already residing in Germany, data shows. However, immigrants from the Danube-region countries are distributed unevenly across the country. In Regensburg (Bavaria), a partner...

Slovenia is a country with interesting migration data, both in terms of incoming and outgoing movements of people. On 1 July 2018 the total population of Slovenia was 2,067,284. Of this 1,943,441 people were Slovenian citizens and 123,843 were...

As its chosen pilot project within YOUMIG, the municipality of Sfantu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy in Hungarian) has relaunched the website www.sepsinet.ro. The site targets young migrants planning to return home as its main readership. They will...

YOUMIG-partner from Germany, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS Regensburg) has its seat in Regensburg, Bavaria, a city of more than 150,000 inhabitants and a long history of multi-ethnic migration flows....

Using the potential of young migrant women from the Danube region in Graz In Austria, about 40 percent of all immigrants come from the Danube region; over half are younger than 30. The research conducted by YOUMIG shows that the main...

Doc. Branislav Bleha, PhD, from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava and INFOSTAT´S YOUMIG thematic expert Dr Bleha, you organised a workshop for the YOUMIG project that has just ended. What was its main...

The YOUMIG partnership gathered for the fifth time in the project’s lifetime to review progress and make plans together for entering the last stretch or the last seven months of project implementation. Taking account of the many tasks and...

In the second series of YOUMIG's Real People, Real Stories campaign, we present stories from partner cities Szeged (Hungary) and the district of Rača-Bratislava (Slovakia). The stories show how YOUMIG reaches people and issues related to youth...

Interview with Tamás Kiss, YOUMIG project manager and thematic expert at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (Cluj, Romania) Q: You are currently engaged in a comparative analysis of seven case studies concluded by...

-- Supporting young people in staying and working in their hometown -- An opening ceremony of YOUMIG Kanjiža’s first co-working space was held on 6 September 2018. The main goal of this new initiative is to create a space where people...

Albanian-speaking immigrants encounter both language- and cultural barriers when trying to integrate into Slovenian society. In the following, we describe the good practice of the Slovenian municipality of Jesenice, in the Gorenjska region...