Conference Venue Botanical Garden Osnabrück Helikoniensaal (Re-)Migrants in the Albrechtstraße 29 49076 German-Turkish Osnabrück Innovation Network

Contact and Registraion Please register by April 30, 2016 at the latest by email to Philip Müller ([email protected]). The conference is part of the project Atendance is free of charge. MIGRATION “(Re-)Migrants in the German - Turkish Further informa on innovaion network – idenificaion and i www.mide .uni-jena.de BRIDGING communicaion of potenial for science and the i economy – MIDETI” funded by the German ECONOMIES Federal Ministry of Educaion and Research (BMBF).

Project partners are: • Prof. Dr. Marin Franz (Osnabrück University) Osnabrück, • Prof. Dr. Sebasian Henn (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena) May 19, 2016 • Doç. Dr. Meryem Kanat Hayir (Yildiz Technical University Istanbul) • Dr. Ilkay Südas (Ege University İzmir) • Doç. Dr. Nuri Yavan (Ankara University) Under the itle „Science Bridging Naions“, Dutch graphic designer Andrea Hopinca uses molecule-like connected symbols to highlight the fact that German-Turkish scienific cooperaion has grown into an organic bond between researchers in both countries ater three successful decades. „Science Bridging Naions“ was awarded second place. Migra on ows between Germany and Turkey Program i fl 11:30 – 12:00 a.m. have been discussed in the poli cal, scien c Registra on: 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. i ifi i Prof. Dr. Eberhard von Einem, Technical and public arena for many years. While the University of Berlin: Knowledge Transfer via Re- debate originally focused on Turkish workers in Opening Session Migraion: Germany –Turkey Germany, a recent shi can be observed that 9:00 – 9:10 a.m. t can be a ributed to a rising number of people Prof. Dr. Mar n Franz, Osnabrück University, t i Session II – MIDETI Project Results migrating from Germany to Turkey. In this and Prof. Dr. Sebas an Henn, University of i 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. context, increasing a en on has been paid to Jena: Migra on Bridging Economies - The t i i Philip Müller, Osnabrück University: the emigra on of highly quali ed second and MIDETI-Project i fi (Re-)Migrants in the German-Turkish third generaion descendants of Turkish 9:10 – 9:20 a.m. Innovaion Network – Characterisics, immigrants to Germany. Even though research Dr. Ralf Hermann, DLR Project Management Funcions and Impacts on migra on between Germany and Turkey has Agency: The German-Turkish Coopera ons in i i 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. been conducted in various academic elds, up to the Field of Research and Innova on fi i PhD students, Ankara University; Master now, only li le is known about the economic 9:20 – 9:30 a.m. t Students, Osnabrück University: Results of effects of highly-skilled return migrants of Prof. Dr. Andreas Pot, Director of IMIS, Insitute Young Researcher Aciviies Turkish origin. for Migraion Research and Intercultural : Studies The Producion of Migraion Session III – Panel Discussion The conference aims at addressing this gap by Session I – Migraion and Innovaion: Theoreical 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. bringing together researchers from different and Empirical Perspec ves Moderator: Prof. Dr. Marin Franz (Osnabrück disciplines studying this phenomenon, such as i 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. University) geography, sociology, economics and migraion Dr. Yaşar Aydın, University of Hamburg: studies, but also company representaives and Transnaional Migraion between Germany and 4:00 – 4:15 p.m. highly-qualified people of Turkish origin. Three Turkey Doç. Dr. Nuri Yavan, Ankara University: themaic sessions will deal with the potenials 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Concluding Remarks that highly qualified return migrants can create Prof. Dr. Sebasian Henn, University of Jena, for the German-Turkish economic relaions. and Dr. Ilkay Südaş, Ege University: Migrants between Germany and Turkey: New Argonauts? MIGRATION 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. BRIDGING Dr. Dominik Hartmann, University of ECONOMIES Hohenheim: Internaional Innovaion Networks and Knowledge Migraion: The German-Turkish nexus