Presentation on new R&D opportunities in Migration - Horizon Europe by Luca Lixi DG RTD - Regione Apulia Representation in Brussels @UNIMED Week in Brussels

1. Migration Research in Horizon
20 March 2019
Luca Lixi
Migration Policy Officer
Unit B6 ‘Open and Inclusive Societies’, DG Research and
Innovation

2. Background
Work Programme 2018-2020: first Migration call
2018: €36 M
2019: € 35 M
2020: € 29 M, negotiations ongoing

3. Complexity of migration
• Migration is a complex issue, cuts across:
• 1) Borders
• 2) Systems
• Horizon research allows to capture this
complexity

4. MIGRATION 02-2018
• Towards forward looking migration governance:
addressing the challenges, assessing capacities
and designing future strategies
• MAGYC- Migration Governance and Asylum Crisis
• ADMIGOV- Advancing alternative migration governance
Greek Islands, Lebanon, Turkey cases included
• AGRUMIG- ‘Leaving something behind: migration
governance and agricultural & rural change in home
• Morocco

5. MIGRATION 08-2018
• Addressing the challenge of forced displacement
• FOCUS- Forced Displacement and refugees host community
solidarity
• RAISD- Reshaping Attention and inclusion strategies for
distinctively vulnerable people among the forcibly displaced
• TRAFIG- Transnational Figurations of Displacement:
connectivity and mobility as solutions to protracted
refugees situations
• Regional focus including middle east and southern Europe (Italy and Greece).
Syrian and Afghan refugees focus.

6. MIGRATION 05-2018
• Mapping and overcoming integration challenges
for migrant children
• IMMERSE- Integration Mapping of refugee and Migrant Children
in Schools and Other Experiential Environments in Europe
• CHILD UP- Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a
way of Upgrading Policies of Participation
• MiCREATE- Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming
Europe

7. MIGRATION 05-2018
• Mapping and overcoming integration challenges
for migrant children
• IMMERSE- Integration Mapping of refugee and Migrant Children
in Schools and Other Experiential Environments in Europe
• CHILD UP- Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a
way of Upgrading Policies of Participation
• MiCREATE- Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming
Europe

8. MIGRATION 09-2019
• Understanding migration mobility patterns:
elaborating mid and long term migration
scenarios

9. MIGRATION 03-2019
• Social and Economic effects of migration in
Europe and integration policies

10. MIGRATION 07-2019
• International Protection of refugees in a
comparative perspective
• Jordan mentioned in the Work Programme

11. ReSoma
• Collecting existing knowledge together with input
from the civil society, clustered around priority
areas for policymakers and practitioners more
widely.
• Creating a networked platform to facilitate
accumulation of such knowledge.

12. CrossMigration
• A project tasked with the creation of a platform
to collect existing academic knowledge and make
this easy accessible to policymakers and the
wider public

13. Work Programme 2020
• More to come…

14. Horizon Europe
Pillar 2: Global Challenges and industrial competitiveness
Migration, important topic across various clusters
Health, Inclusive Societies, Secure Societies, Energy-climate-mobility, food and
natural resources.
But it will remain mostly a key priority area in our work, reflecting the importance
it has in the Commission’s work.
More importance given to policy impact, ie. how to move research findings to
policy discussions

15. So what??
• New needs emerged/arising in migration
governance
• Need to develop evidence, but also find ways to
disseminate new and existing evidence
• Many levels at which this should occur – your role
important in this!

16. So what??
• Sustainability of projects:
• research outputs not lost!
• Huge investment = huge body of data which
should be made available and especially used in
future research