The eleventh IOM Summer school on migration studies will be held in Prague, Charles University, from August 26th to 31st 2019. 

The program is open for university students (both graduate and undergraduate) as well as young professionals. 

Six days of lectures, workshops and discussions with experts will be unique opportunity to get familiar with different migration topics: migration and development, integration of migrants, trafficking in human beings, environmental migration, migration and gender and others. 

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

In 2019 the program includes following topics and experts:

• Argentina Szabados, IOM Regional Office in Vienna - IOM response to European and Global Migration Trends,
• Katy Barwise, IOM Regional Office in Brussels - Migration and Development,
• Robert Stojanov, Mendel University, ex MPC - Environmental Migration and Migration and Development,
• Tomáš Sobotka, Wittgenstein Centre Vienna - Migration and Demography,
• Dušan Drbohlav, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague - Migration Theories, Myth and Realities,
• Teresa Albano, OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - Trafficking in Persons, 
• Eric Opoku Ware, Sahara Hustlers Association Ghana - The Realities of Irregular Migration from Africa,
• Michal Broža, United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Prague - A World on the Move-Migration and Current Global Risks,
• Fatima El Diasty, UNHCR senior field coordinator/Libya operation - Mixed Migration, 
• Michal Vašečka, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts - Integration of Migrants (TBC),
• Salim Murad, EMMIR – European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations - Migration and Ethnicity,
• Petra Ezzeddine, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University - Migration and Gender,
• Eva Janská, Geographic Migration Centre - Transnational Migration, 
• Lucie Sládková, Chief of Mission IOM Prague - IOM Assistance to Migrants,
• and additional distinguished experts from IOM and other organizations will be invited.

Detail daily program will be available during March. 

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

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

The deadline for applications is April 5th 2019. 

For additional questions, please contact summerschool@iom.int