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Photo exhibition until 18th March 2022
With the support of the University of Lyon 3, a dozen portraits are exhibited on the railings of the Manufacture des Tabacs in order to highlight the Passagers and social workers of the Foyer Notre-Dame des Sans-Abri who act daily to get out and fight against precariousness and exclusion.
OECD 11th Conference on immigration 13-14th December 2021
The on-line conference will examine the economic aspects of international migration in OECD countries by mapping the migratory flows and analyzing their socio-economic determinants and consequences.
Homelessness among mobile EU citizens: on line event on 9th December
Homelessness among mobile EU citizens: New data from four European cities
Thursday 9th December 2021
11:00 - 13:30
Online event
Interpretation available in English, Spanish & German
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Expanding Durable Solutions for Refugee Youth through Higher Education – series of virtual sessions Oct-Dec 2021
The Global Community of Practice (CoP) on Third Country Education Pathways, will launch a series of virtual sessions to share knowledge, and build the capacity of state entities, post-secondary education institutions, associations, foundations, NGOs, INGOs, refugee networks and other stakeholders to design and implement legal pathways for refugee youth through higher education programmes in third countries.
Sessions will take place between October and December and are open to everyone who is interested in learning more about higher education as a complementary pathway for refugees. For the full schedule and to register, please follow the below link.
Hospitality Week from 13 to 23 October in Lyon
Participation of MERGING in the session "Making hospitality in the 21st century" on 14 October from 8:30 to 12:30
This session will examine what hospitality means in terms of both public policy and civil practice and will initiate a research process to develop responses to these issues.
ISIRC conference Milan September 8th – 10th, 2021
One abstract of the University of Bologna accepted at the 13th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) hosted by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Summer School "The Migrant Issue in the Pandemic Context: Flows, Work, Integration"
Ravenna 30th August- 3rd September 2021
Prof. Morena Cuconato, coordinator of the inter-departmental MERGING team of the University of Bologna, has been invited at the annual Summer School on Migration organised by the municipality of Ravenna (Project and Services for Migration Department) together with Unibo and coofinanced by EU and the italian Ministry of Interior to focus on the importance of housing initiatives - at individual, meso (regional) and macro(European) level - as driving factors of wider migrant integration policies.
6 July 2021 Webinaire Horizon Europe organised by French NCP: MERGING presentation
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101004535.