Migrants Project

📊Migrants Project is co-fundend by the Erasmus+ Programme of European Union- Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education

🏛️Lead Contractor
University of Palermo – UNIPA
Department of Cultures and Society
🤝Partners
University of Tunis El Manar – UTM
University of Tunis – UT
University of Al Manouba – UMA
University of Granada – UGR
University of Westminster – UoW
UNIMED – Mediterranean Universities Union
COSPE – Cooperation for Development of Emerging Countries
CLEDU – Legal Clinic for Human Rights

📈Context
As stated by the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (Marrakech, Morocco, 10 and 11 December 2018): Migration is a multidimensional reality that cannot be addressed by one government policy sector alone. To develop and implement effective migration policies and practices, a whole-of-government approach is needed to ensure horizontal and vertical policy coherence across all sectors and levels of government. From a geopolitical point of view Tunisia, for its institutional, political and social actuality, is in a suitable condition for the development of processes of empowerment and institution building. For this reason, the country represents a key point at the regional level for the implementation of migration policies aimed to the security of the macro-area. As such, the Tunisian education system could represents, for the next future, an example and a driving force for the educational systems of the macro-region. With this comprehensive approach, the MIGRANTS Project aim to improve the capacity building of Tunisian High Education Institutions in order to train personals able to plan and implement governance measures and policies for a safe, orderly and regular migration, while reducing the incidence and negative impact of unauthorised migration through international cooperation. No State can address migration on its own because of the inherently transnational nature of the phenomenon.

❗The main objectives of MIGRANTS Project:

◾to improve the quality of Tunisian higher education and enhance its relevance for the labour market and society in order to support its capacities in local, international cooperation and global partnerships for safe, orderly and regular migration, in line with national priorities, policies, action plans and strategies, through a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach.

◾to promote a broad multi-stakeholder partnership to address higher education in migration in Tunisia in all its dimensions including migrants, diasporas, local communities, civil society, academia, the private sector, parliamentarians, trade unions, national human rights institutions, the media and other relevant stakeholders in migration governance both in the Partner Country and in Europe.

◾to implement capacity building action that strengthens the local capacity for managing and govern migratory flows thanks to the training of highly skilled personnel able to manage, in a holistic and multidisciplinary way, the migratory phenomena affecting the Euro-Mediterranean Region.