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ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ | GEMS at World Youth Forum 2024: Tackling Extremist Threats in Gaming – Bledar Feta Γνώση πριν απο τη Δράση

SMIDGE Webinar - Extremist Narratives in Play: Gaming and Digital Spaces as Radicalization Arenas On November 27, 2024, the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (KCSS) hosted the third webinar in the SMIDGE Project series, “Extremist Narratives in Play: Ga...

📚 New publication ‼️

📌 Eda Gemi and Bledar Feta produced the annual report for the OECD Network of International Migration Experts. It maps out and analyses the 2022 – 2023 development in migration movements and policies in 🇬🇷 while providing insights into emerging trends. It also examines the latest statistical information on immigrant stocks and flows, including their size and socio-demographic features, labour market participation, and migration policies in the country.

➡️ You can read the working paper here: https://bit.ly/4fC3qEi

🌐Gaming Ecosystem as a Multilayered Security Threat updates ‼️

📌 The 2nd GEMS Consortium Meeting brought together partners from across Europe to discuss the progress and future directions of the project.

📌 Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) (lead WP6) team, was represented in this meeting by Ioannis Armakolas and Bledar Feta, implemented a exercise between January-May 2024 with the aim to map the activities of five categories of : state-level stakeholders, non-state stakeholders, academic institutions, European and regional organisations, and gaming world stakeholders.

➡️ Read more here: https://bit.ly/4fycvxZ

Presentation of GEMS at the EU’s 2024 Project to Policy Seminar – Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic & Bledar Feta The GEMS project was present at the yearly Projects to Policy Seminar event organised by the European Research Executive Agency (REA), the European Commission (DG Home) and the Community for European Research and Innovation for Security (CERIS) in Brussels, on June 25-26, 2024. This annual event inv

📺 Media: ABC News Albania

📌 Bledar Feta appeared on “Ballkan”, a current affairs show broadcast by ABC News Albania, where he discussed the current challenges and domestic issues that are acting as barriers to and in the Western Balkans with the journalist Linda Karadaku.

➡️ You can watch the interview in Albanian by clicking on the link in the comments.

The initial two GEMS reports have been released to the public We are pleased to announce the release of the initial two comprehensive reports under the auspices of the GEMS project: the "Gaming Stakeholders Mapping Report," authored by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) pursuant to Work Package 6 (WP6), and "Extremism across the....