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

Serbia's municipal partner in YOUMIG is Kanjiža. The town is a sending area, which has been struggling with a wave of migration since 2011. In 2011, the Hungarian minority was granted a right to dual Serbian-Hungarian citizenship accompanied by...

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Here are the infographics from Bratislava - Rača. Enjoy! For more YOUMIG infographics, please check the Gallery: http://dtp.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/youmig/gallery?project_gallery=YOUMIG+Infographics  

During the YOUMIG Open Conference in May 2018, Ursula Eltayeb (City of Vienna – Municipal Department 17 for Integration and Diversity) presented the city’s policies for the integration of people moving to Vienna. Currently 1,867,582 people...

The Institute of Economics in Zagreb, a member of the WB-MIGNET network, hosted a conference in May in cooperation with the University College Effectus for Law and Finance and The Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, both also located in...

Let’s have a closer look at migration, the subject under study in YOUMIG. This phenomena is so complex that we will need a set of measurement tools we call indicators to describe it. This includes looking at things like the inflows and...

The YOUMIG partnership gathered in Vienna at mid-term to discuss and shape activities for the next 14 months. The improvement of statistical measuring of youth migration, policy testing and advising and documenting cases and good practices were...

YOUMIG invited external guests to an open conference in order to present and discuss the first results of the two-and-a-half-year project. The partner University of Vienna hosted the conference. "Since I've started with the research on...

On April 24th the city of Graz held a Local Open Seminar to present YOUMIG researchers’ local findings about the migration situation in the city and present a Pilot Action designed based on those findings for the municipality. The participants...

As the YOUMIG project approaches its mid-term, our partners in Szeged, Hungary, held a second forum to present results concerning the inward, outward and return migration of youth in the Danube region. The main issues addressed this time were...

The month of February arrived, and it was time for the YOUMIG project team to think of the most appropriate way to present the results of the work carried out within the project in the previous year. In order to best engage both decision makers...

Slovenia is both a destination country for many immigrants and a country of origin for emigrants leaving this country. There is evidence that migration affects many aspects of society, it influences the makeup of the population with regard to...

Local governments are facing increasing challenges from the inward, outward and return migration of youth, but they often lack the capacities and tools to cope. Most importantly, local services, such as health care and education, are affected....

The YOUMIG partner – the district municipality of Bratislava-Rača organised its second local event in the project on March 28, 2018. An open seminar was held at the local municipality office. The first aim of this event was to discuss results of...

If one had to choose a key phrase to describe the second local YOUMIG event in Romania, “updated perspectives” seems to be a good fit. The forum organized on the 12th of March 2018 in Sfântu Gheorghe brought together project partners from...

On the 8th of March 2018 the second local forum was organized at the offices of the Maribor Development Agency. The second local forum in Maribor, entitled Youth Migrants in Maribor, brought together the main stakeholders who are dealing with...

Representatives of leading local companies, municipal administration, stakeholders and citizens participated in the second local migration forum in Burgas, chaired by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Haralan Alexandrov – a social anthropologist. The meeting...

Interview with Slavica Đukić Dejanović - Serbia’s Minister without portfolio for demography and population policy The Institute of Social Sciences is a partner in the YOUMIG project, which focuses on youth migration in the Danube region....

In your opinion what are the main challenges of international migration today? We are living in a time of increasing mobility when some surveys suggest that around 700 million people in the world are potential migrants, mostly young,...

*** On the 8th of May, the second open conference of our project YOUMIG will take place in Vienna. During the event we will introduce you to the preliminary outcomes of the first one-and-a-half years. There will be some panel discussions as...