A targeted study visit coordinated by ELIAMEP (Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy) and FPN (Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade) took place in Athens. In total, 8 academics and PhD students from FPN visited Athens in the context of H2020 MIGREC Project. The overall aim of MIGREC project is the establishment of a research center entitled “MIGREC” under the auspices of the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Belgrade.

The South-East Europe Programme of ELIAMEP led by Panagiotis Paschalidis, Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Western Macedonia and Research Fellow at ELIAMEP and Alexandros Koutras, Project Manager of the Programme, organized and hosted a series of indoor sessions at ELIAMEP offices in Athens as well as meetings with migration related stakeholders. The schedule included seminars, presentations and open discussions related to migration with scholars, experts as well as government officials.

The study visits of staff and PhD students from FPN focused on enhancing a better understanding of the migration issues and strategies of Greece and the current geopolitical challenges. The participants had the opportunity to learn more about migration issues in Greece by following the agenda:

  • Visit to the Ministry of Migration and Asylum (Deputy Minister of Migration, Asylum in charge of integration)
  • Visit to the NGO Solidarity Now (Marina Kanta – Legal Team Leader)
  • Visit to PRAKSIS NGO (Athens Community Center)
  • Seminar on series on social sciences research and methodology (Salomi Boukala – Assistant Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Athens)
  • Seminar on turning academic paper to policy papers (Angeliki Dimitriadi – Senior Research Fellow and former Head of the Migration programme at ELIAMEP 2017-2021)
  • Presentation on the Asylum and Citizenship issues in Greece (Lampros Baltsiotis – Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University of Athens)

You can read the full agenda here.

You can read more on the MIGREC website and meet the team.

The list of staff and PhD students (FPN):

  1. Natalija Perišić – Full Professor at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
  2. Biljana Djordjević – Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science, Department of Political Science
  3. Dejan Pavlović – Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science, Department of International Studies
  4. Danica Santić – Associate Professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography, Department of Human Geography
  5. Violeta Marković – teaching assistant and a PhD student at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
  6. Danijela Pavlović – teaching assistant and a PhD student at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
  7. Milica Todorović – teaching assistant and a PhD student at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography, Department of Human Geography
  8. Jovana Konjević – representative of the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration of the Republic of Serbia