May 1, 2024 marked the 20th anniversary of Poland's membership to the EU. On this occasion, numerous scientific, expert, and open events were devoted to summarising Poland's presence in European structures, discussing its future role, and looking at the challenges facing Poland and the EU. All this is compounded by preparations for the European Parliament elections to be held in Poland on June 9, 2024…
Read MoreOn May 16, 2024, Tomasz Sieniow from the Horizon Europe GAPs team at CMR UW participated as an expert in a webinar entitled ‘Guarded centres for foreigners - current situation and necessary changes’…
Read MoreOn Saturday, April 6, 2024, Hammurabi Human Rights Organization held a roundtable meeting to discuss policies for the return of migrants and refugees to Iraq. More than 20 experts from governmental and non-governmental organizations involved in migration and refugee issues participated in the discussion, including representatives from the Ministry of Planning, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, IOM…
Read MoreThe Expert Panel Discussion on Afghanistan’s Return and Reintegration Policies took place on March 9, 2024. Experts explored Afghanistan's return migration and reintegration policies and the challenges encountered in their implementation at macro, meso, and micro levels...
Read MoreOn February 26, 2024, Migration Matters (Bernadette Klausberger & Sophia Burton) and Radboud University (Joris Schapendonk & Selma Blanken), partners of the GAPS Return Migration consortium, co-organized a workshop entitled 'Mediatization of Migration'. The workshop aimed to shed light on the impact of media framing of migration and its repercussions on societal discourse. It focused on the importance of counternarratives in shaping perceptions…
Read MoreA focus group discussion, lasting around 90 minutes, was held with ten Nigerians, who had returned to their country within the last ten years, including five males and five females, aged between 25 and 40. They were held at the Patriotic Citizens’ Initiative (PCI) shelter, which is a transit camp for returnees in Lagos, before they travel to their families in other parts of…
Read MoreMarta Pachocka, PI of the Polish Horizon Europe GAPs team, migration expert in the Team Europe Direct network operating at the European Commission in Poland and researcher from the CMR UW and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, participated as a panelist in the conference on "With a View to multi-level migration management" in Wrocław, Poland…
Read MoreAs a part of Hammurabi Human Rights Organization (HHRO)'s plan to enhance the information available to its research team participating in the Horizon Europe GAPs project and to enrich its field research portfolio, Dr. Khalid AlBayati, a member of…
Read MoreHorizon Europe GAPs team member in Poland, Mateusz Krępa from the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Wa…
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