In the context of the MIGREC project, the South – East Europe Programme of ELIAMEP held the first day of the first session of the Publishing Seminars. The seminar was led by Ioannis Armakolas and Julianne Funk of the academic journal Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, with Dr. Rusell King, Professor at the University of Sussex and member of the MIGREC Advisory Board as a guest speaker.