IOM Summer school on migration studies will be held in Prague, Charles University, from August 26th to September 1st 2018. IOM Prague will host university students (both graduate and undergraduate) as well as young professionals in cooperation with the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague (Geographic Migration Centre).

Seven days of lectures, workshops and discussions with experts will be a unique opportunity to become familiar with different migration topics: integration, labour migration, trafficking in human beings, migration and development, environmental migration, migration and gender, migration law and others.

The project is co-funded by the U.S. Embassy in Prague within the Small Grants Program.

IOM Prague has implemented the Summer School every year since 2009. It was attended by more than 500 students and professionals from 60 countries who attended lectures presented by following experts:

• Joaquín Arango, Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid
• Ronald Skeldon, University of Sussex
• Heinz Fassmann, University of Vienna
• Philippe De Bruycker, Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Lori Hunter – University of Colorado in Boulder
• Jiří Pehe, Director of the New York University in Prague
• Frank Sharry, founder and executive director of ”America’s Voice”, Washington DC
• Romi Mukherjee, Sciences Po-Paris
• J.C. Mutchler, The University of Arizona

Many others distinguished experts participared from the academia, IOM Geneva and Brussels, OSCE, state administration (Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Development Agency, ACIDI Portugal, MA17 Vienna, etc.), non-governmental organizations (La Strada, Charitas, etc.) as well as migrants’ organizations and communities.

In 2018 the following experts will attend the programme:    

• Tomáš Sobotka, Wittgenstein Centre Vienna - Migration and Demography
• Dušan Drbohlav, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague - Migration Theories, Myth and Realities
• Eric Opoku Ware, Sahara Hustlers Association Ghana - The Realities of Irregular Migration from Africa 
• Michal Vašečka, Masaryk University in Brno - Integration of Migrants
• Robert Stojanov, Migration Policy Centre, Florence - Environmental Migration
• Salim Murad, EMMIR – European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations - Migration and Ethnicity
• Petra Ezzeddine, Faculty of Humanities, Chares University - Migration and Gender
• Eva Janska, Geographic Migration Centre - Transnational Migration 
• Lucie Sládková, Chief of Mission IOM Prague - IOM Assistance to Migrants
• and other distinguished experts from IOM and other organizations. 

The detailed program will be posted ASAP.

Please read the Instructions enclosed below with more information about fees, accommodation etc.

Apply on-line HERE. More information can be found HERE.

The application deadline is 20 April 2018.

For additional information please contact jschroth@iom.int.