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

The integration of incoming migrants and assisting their more prolonged stay remains high on the agenda in Regensburg and the respective district, while relevant data available to policymakers is still limited, especially across the district....

While migration among, from, to and across the countries of the Danube Basin is intensifying, there has been little research in interpreting these processes with a focus on age. Most migrants are young (aged 15-34), and their migratory behaviour...

In the course of the YOUMIG project, the City of Graz conducted a study visit to Pécs, the fifth largest city of Hungary. Like Graz, Pécs is a university city. It focuses on building a strong education industry and on fostering international...

Three members of the local YOUMIG team from Rača visited the city of Brno in the Czech Republic to learn about local experiences with managing youth migration. They visited the Brno Expat Centre, which provides free consultations and assistance...

The Municipality of Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania, a YOUMIG project partner, had the opportunity to visit a city within the Danube region where migration-related processes are present and local authorities have already some experience in responding to...

At the end of last year a two-day seminar was held at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Comenius University in Bratislava about youth migration in Slovakia in the national and local context. The lectures were related to the ongoing YOUMIG...

Budapest has seen a steady number of foreign citizens among its population, many of them foreign students, in the YOUMIG target age group of 15-34. According to official statistics, the number of foreign citizens registered in the capital of...

Download Authors: Ádám Németh, Elisabeth Gruber In order to create a ‘common language’ within the project, a Conceptual Framework was created to define the relevant terms, clarify its core concepts and evaluated challenges and...

  Three members of the Szeged YOUMIG project team (Csilla Juhász, Attila Gábor Feleky and Tibor Papp) visited Subotica, Serbia, in October 2017 to get acquainted with the experiences of the Municipality of Subotica in connection...

In the first year of the YOUMIG project extensive research was carried out at all seven partner localities, resulting in an analysis embracing many issues concerning youth migration. These local-level comprehensive case studies – titled...

In search of Bulgarian diaspora - A lot of young people from YOUMIG partner municipality Burgas are leaving towards Western Europe and the city of Vienna is one of their target cities. Different working and educational opportunities are available...

A successful film premiere and forum was held in Kanjiža.     There is a new, youthful kind of energy in Kanjiža, and it’s bringing about positive change. Young people come together and initiate workshops and exchange programs,...

YOUMIG partners met for their third partner meeting in Regensburg, Germany, on November 22-23 with a lot on their agenda. Representatives of the partnership were invited to fill the cozy rooms of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast...

Under the YOUMIG project, the Institute for Economic Research in Ljubljana has created a good practice collection of services and actions linked to youth migration in Europe and over the globe. The good practices include ideas for both sending...

An international conference entitled „Information matters: towards positive pathways of migrants’ integration” was held on 26 October in Bratislava, Slovakia. The scientific conference was organised by DRIM, a sister Interreg project, with a...

The YOUMIG partner Maribor Development Agency in Slovenia has been talking to migrants as part of the ongoing research activities, conducting interviews with people in different situations. Some of them have come to Maribor from other countries,...

  YOUMIG was invited to be one of the two projects of the Danube Transnational Programme participating at the European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels on October 9-12. During the meetings and workshops held at the conference...

The conference ’Migration in and to Europe, Structures and Processes’ held in Pécs, Hungary, on 6 October 2017, featured a presentation of the aims and research milestones of the YOUMIG project by Deputy Project Manager Béla Soltész. The...

YOUMIG partners at the INFOSTAT research institute in Slovakia have been working with data on local populations in the seven localities that are partners in YOUMIG. This work was undertaken to estimate how the population would change in each city...

Zoltán Csányi started his research career by taking a degree in economics and international relations from Budapest’s Corvinus university. Haunted by the desire to try his luck abroad, Csányi entered a volunteer programme in a small village near...