Design and Development of an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Mixed Migration

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This project aims for the development of an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Mixed Migration (MixMIG), addressing diverse forms of cross-border movements of people with varying motivations. It offers a theoretically founded, evidence-based, and didactically sound study program for students worldwide. The universities who will be participating in the development and implementation of this integrated, cross-institutional, and transdisciplinary study programme are situated in sending, transit, and receiving countries of major migration corridors and are all well-established and -networked in migration research and postgraduate training. The consortium consists of three universities located in the European Union – the University for Continuing Education Krems in Austria, University of Palermo in Italy, and the University of Warsaw in Poland and two non-European universities, the University of Ghana, Ghana and Koc University in Turkey. Furthermore, the involvement of the EU Agency for Asylum as well as the International Centre for Migration Policy Development as two potential future employers for graduates of this degree programme will help to design an attractive, tailor-made curriculum ensuring high employability. This Master Programme is specifically dedicated to the rapidly growing phenomenon of mixed migration and is grounded in a variety of geographical, methodological, and disciplinary perspectives to educate future actors involved in addressing the challenges of this social phenomenon - from the policy to practise. The funding will enable the consortium to design and develop a world-class, state-of-the-art curriculum for a two-year Joint Master’s programme attracing international students for partaking in an intensive and comprehensive study period which will prepare them for professional careers in international governmental and non-governmental organisations, public administrations, and also qualify students for the next step in an academic career including a PhD