On 7-12 July, ICMPD hosted students and youth at the 2024 International Summer School on Migration in Kachreti, Georgia. Implemented by ICMPD, this 11th summer school was organised under the framework of the EU-funded STREAMinG 2 and MOBILAZE 2 projects and the Training Academy of the Prague Process. 

The participants discussed the impact of migration on international law and its legal aspects, media and the perception of migrants, migration’s role in the economy, migration and development, and integration and citizenship. Other key topics in this year’s Summer School were migration and gender, skilled migration, migration governance, European asylum law, and the future developments of migration. Lecturers at the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, University of Sussex, University Jena, University of Applied Sciences Vienna, and the Maastricht University Graduate School of Governance, along with experts from ICMPD, led the discussions and facilitated the inputs of the participants. 

'Attending the ICMPD Summer School on Migration has been an incredibly enriching experience, offering comprehensive insights into migration topics and creating a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative space for sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas.' - says Nino Gogokhia, summer school student.

This year’s 55 participants from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Ukraine are students of media studies and journalism, international law, development studies, international relations, history, economics, and social and political sciences.

The annual event provides research-oriented, multi-disciplinary and innovative lectures, workshops, working groups and projects on issues related to the migration situation and migration policy in the EU, its Eastern neighbourhood region and worldwide as well as the global developments related to migration.

I had the pleasure to once again teach at ICMPD's International Summer School on Migration, in Georgia. More than 50 students, future researchers, journalists and policymakers, had the opportunity to learn more about migration processes from different interdisciplinary angles. Once again, the Summer School was skillfully organised by ICMPD. I am already looking forward to the next one.' - says Prof Dr Melissa Siegel, from the Maastricht University and UNU-Merit, one of the mentors at this year’s event. 

Watch the two-minute video showcasing highlights from the 2022 Summer School in Azerbaijan.