“Knowledge Hub on the Euro-Mediterranean region”

holds a workshop titled

“Migrants and migration studies in Europe”

3-4 July 2019

University of ,

Colegio dos Jesuitas, Rectory of the University of Madeira

AGENDA

3rd July 2019

9.00 – 9.30: Opening session and presentation of the MED HUB project Opening speech Elsa Fernandes, Vice-rector of University of Madeira (Portugal)

Speaker-presentation of MED HUB Mateja Sedmak, Science and Research Centre Koper (Slovenia)

9.30 – 10.45: Access of refugees and migrants to higher education in European Universities Chair Gilda Esposito, University of Firenze, (Italy)

Roundtable speakers

Markus Meckl, University of Akureyri (Iceland) Sofia Kasola, The Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki (Greece) Luísa Antunes Paolinelli, University of Madeira (Portugal) Cinzia Laurelli Armes Progetti (Italy) Giovanna del Gobbo University of Firenze (Italy) Barbara Gornik, Science and Research Centre Koper (Slovenia)

10.45 – 11.15 Break

11.15 – 12.30 Policies regarding migrant participation in tertiary education (policy-academic debate) Chair Luísa Antunes Paolinelli, University of Madeira (Portugal) Roundtable speakers

Elsa Fernandes, Vice-rector of University of Madeira (Portugal) Alcina Sousa, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Madeira (Portugal) Teresa Norton Dias, University of Madeira (Portugal) Luciano Lombardi, Conservatory of Arts of Madeira (Portugal)

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 – 15.00 Education for a Humanistic Globalization in a Global Migration time

Plenary lecture José Eduardo Franco, (Portugal) Luisa Antunes Paolinelli, University of Madeira (Portugal)

15.00 – 15.15 Break

15.15 – 16.15 Migration studies in interdisciplinary perspective (roundtable)

Chair Mateja Sedmak, Science and Research Centre Koper (Slovenia) Roundtable speakers Markus Meckl, University of Akureyri (Iceland) Evrinomy Avdi, The Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki (Greece) Luísa Antunes Paolinelli, University of Madeira (Portugal) Cinzia Laurelli Armes Progetti (Italy)

Concluding session and sum up

Mateja Sedmak, Science and Research Centre Koper (Slovenia)

17.00

Reception with Mayor at Town Hall

4th July 2019

9:00 – 11:00 Euro-Mediterranean area and migration in University curricula Chair Evrinomy Avdi, The Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

Markus Meckl, University of Akureyri (Iceland) Sofia Kasola, The Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki (Greece) Luísa Antunes Paolinelli, University of Madeira (Portugal) Cinzia Laurelli Armes Progetti (Italy) Gilda Esposito, University of Firenze, (Italy) Mateja Sedmak, Science and Research Centre Koper (Slovenia)

11.00 – 11.15 Break

11.15 – 13.00

Workshop Concluding Remarks and Recommendation for further actions – Discussion and Sum up

Mateja Sedmak, Science and Research Centre Koper (Slovenia) Barbara Gornik, Science and Research Centre Koper (Slovenia)

12.45 – 13.45 Lunch break