The First MIGREC “Training workshop in applying for external research funding with emphasis on HORIZON EUROPE” took place online during 3 days: March 22, 24 and 29, 2021. Research staff from FPN, GEF and other Faculties including PhD candidates plus researchers from ELIAMEP and SEERC participated in an intense workshop led by Nikos Zaharis, SEERC Director.
The workshop started with a definition and basic principles of externally funded research and went on to discuss in detail the aims and mechanisms of the main EU research funding programs H2020 and HORIZON EUROPE along with relevant aspects of ERASMUS+. Emphasis was given to research topics that are relevant to migration studies. As examples, two calls were examined in detail:
- Mapping and overcoming integration challenges for migrant children (closed call; the workshop studied the resulting projects) and
- Return and readmission of irregular migrants in the EU (future call)
The participants studied the second call and formed three groups that worked together on “Skeleton Proposals” which were presented and discussed the third day of the workshop. The “skeleton proposals” included an outline of the following items: i) Proposed progress beyond the state of the art, ii) Project Objectives, iii) Project Foreseen Impact, iv) Potential Project Partnership and v) Project Work-Plan.
Finally, the workshop’s speaker Nikos Zaharis presented in more details the upcoming call for the MSCA Post-doctoral fellowships, which is a prospect that should interest both young researchers (as potential post-doctoral fellows) and the Faculties of the University of Belgrade (as possible host organisations).
