Urban Migration Governance: Policy, Practice and Research

Dear MiReKoc Summer School Applicants;

We hope this message finds you in good health.

We would like to inform you that our MiReKoc International Summer School 2024 is scheduled for 3-14 June 2024 at Koç University Rumelifeneri Campus and will be on “Urban Migration Governance: Policy, Practice and Research” under the premises of the EU-funded Twinning Project BRAOD-ER “Bridging the Migration and Urban Studies Nexus.”

BROAD-ER, primarily, aims to build a Research Excellence Network which will foster interdisciplinary research and training at the nexus of migration and urban studies. The collaboration of three universities, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF, Spain), the University of Amsterdam (UvA, the Netherlands,) and Koç University (KU, Turkey), aims at closing the research gap within the ERA while also increasing Research & Innovation capacities in Turkey in such pivotal emergent fields. To achieve this, BROAD-ER will offer scientific and research management training activities to researchers, including research proposal management and key transferable skills (ethical issues, diversity, equity and inclusion, scientific outreach, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, etc.) while addressing research excellence in the project’s fields. The training plans, including summer and winter schools, will be complemented with mobility activities to establish networking structures.

We will be sharing more information on the application and call for participation. Please visit our Summer School Website miss.ku.edu.tr to follow more.

Yours Sincerely,

MiReKoc Team.

The Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc) aims to advance the state of the art in migration research through original and innovative scholarship, academic collaboration, and dialogue between researchers, policy makers, international organizations, and civil society actors. Based in Istanbul, MiReKoc was founded as a grant-giving program in 2004, and over the past years, MiReKoc has become a hub for systematic research on migration in Türkiye and its neighborhood, including the Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Middle East. MiReKoc is a multi-disciplinary research institute on migration studies that seeks to promote scholarly work and collaboration in the field through research seminars, summer schools and workshops, projects, publications, and other activities. MiReKoc endeavors to develop collaboration between migration scholars, civil society organizations, and policy makers to stimulate dialogue on new and existing research. To this end, since 2011 MiReKoc has organized the annual International Summer School, a flagship program bringing together migration experts from all over the world.