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🚨Registration for the 2025 Wittgenstein Centre Conference Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century is open 🥳

➡️Join us in Vienna or online to hear the latest research from the top migration scholars 🤓

➡️This year we also have a Round Table to discuss how science can inform policy!

22.09.2025 08:24 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Checking in from #EURegionsWeek!

Together with fellow #HorizonEU projects Re-Place, MOBI-TWIN & SkillsPULSE, we explore how data-informed tools and innovative approaches can:
✅ Strengthen #RegionalResilience
✅ Address #TalentLoss
✅ Support the “right to stay” in every territory
#RegionalDevelopment

14.10.2025 10:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

PREMIUM_EU consortium group photo in front of IIASA in Austria

💡How can targeted policies attract skilled migrants to your region?

📍We're at @iiasa.ac.at for our second-to-last consortium meeting, sewing together the research in our upcoming data and policy dashboard!

Get involved! Join the network and help co-create the tool: premium-eu.org/news/resilie...

07.10.2025 15:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🎤 Our 4th speaker at #EURegionsWeek in Brussels:

Emilija Stojmenova Duh, Ph.D. – Associate Professor @UniLjubljana & former Slovenian Minister for Digital Transformation.

🗓 15 Oct | 9:30–11:00
📍 THE SQUARE, Brussels
🔗 Join online: lnkd.in/e-R29yfc

@premiumeu.bsky.social

08.09.2025 06:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

📅10 September: What drives #returnmigration and what do people bring back with them?

Register to tune in for Wednesday's deep dive into new fieldwork on motivations, challenges, and policy blind spots—fresh from Poland, Austria, and Turkey.

Sign up here👉 premium-eu.org/news/webinar...

#PREMIUM_EU

04.09.2025 08:51 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Meet our 3rd speaker at #EURegionsWeek: Peter Meister-Broekema, senior researcher @Hanze UAS on demographic change & wellbeing in rural regions.

🗓 15 Oct | 9:30–11:00 | Brussels
🔗 Attend online: forms.gle/LTf7RwD86cVZ...
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02.09.2025 06:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

💡 We look forward to an interactive session at #EURegionsWeek featuring expert insights and live demos of data tools in support of thriving European communities.

Read more and register to join in Brussels or online
👉 premium-eu.org/news/eu-week...

22.08.2025 08:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What can be done when rural areas lose people, services and jobs?

Join an interactive session ft live demos, digital tools and insights from #PREMIUM_EU & #SMARTERA on tackling #ruraldecline.

🗓️ Oct 15, 9:30–11:00 at #EURegionsWeek in Brussels

Read more and register:
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01.08.2025 09:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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Rural areas losing people, services & opportunities, but digital tools can help!

Join @premiumeu.bsky.social & #SMARTERA at #EURegionsWeek

🗓️ Oct 15, 9:30–11:00, Brussels (regions-and-cities.europa.eu/programme/20...)

Online: forms.gle/LTf7RwD86cVZ...

22.07.2025 07:23 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

📅 WEBINAR: Moving back or moving forward? Rethinking return migration

Join us on 10 Sept, 13-14:30 CEST for a dive into the motivations, challenges and policy blind spots around return migration.

🔗 Register: premium-eu.org/news/webinar...

#regionaldevelopment #migration @horizoneu.bsky.social

18.07.2025 11:44 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Presentation slide, workshop title in Spanish and organisor logos

PREMIUM_EU researchers presenting at University of Barcelona in May

📍 How do migrants move within #Spain after they settle?

A recent workshop hosted at @ub.edu looked at #InternalMigration among immigrant communities and its links to regional demographics.

🔗 Read more and subscribe to project news via premium-eu.org

#PREMIUM_EU #HorizonEU @horizoneu.bsky.social

14.07.2025 15:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

PREMIUM_EU: Unlocking regional growth through strategic interregional mobility policies The PREMIUM_EU project seeks to explore and provide recommendations on interregional mobility involving the movement of people between regions

Why does #mobility without #policy deepen regional divides?
Prof Leo van Wissen explores this paradox in an article via Open Access Government, showing how datadriven interregional mobility policies can support and grow communities.

Read more🔗 premium-eu.org/news/unlocki... #HorizonEU #OpenAccess

08.05.2025 10:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rural re-population: Attracting skilled migrants | Nordregio At this event, we explore which indicators might explain why certain regions are particularly attractive to move to compared to others. We also ask regional policymakers how they changed their…

💬 "Ingredients are identity, opportunity, and imagination.”

Did you miss yesterday's event? Don't worry—we recorded it. Watch it back for insights from researchers, policymakers and local officials across Europe.

Recording 👉 nordregio.org/events/rural-re-population-attracting-skilled-migrants

30.04.2025 08:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Historically, regional development has been defined in economic terms: GDP, unemployment rates, and industrial output.

While these remain important, our new report takes a holistic approach and tells the story of regional well-being across 37 indicators.

Learn more👉 premium-eu.org/fume-publica...

23.04.2025 11:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

This topic has significant knowledge gaps. With regions facing major demographic challenges, migration matters for their future. Our research leverages social media data to understand how mobility can benefit European regions. Thanks for sharing 💡

19.04.2025 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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14.04.2025 11:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From #webscraping policies to mapping #migration flows and interviewing migrants, the team met in Ankara last week to discuss how to present the research findings in our upcoming regional policy dashboard!

Want to test the tool before its launch? Sign up👉 premium-eu.org/news/resilie...

#HorizonEU

14.04.2025 11:52 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Presentation of the demographic state of Sweden

Workshop participants discussing

Window view from a snowy mountain in Sundsvall, Västernorrland County, Sweden

Is your region resilient to #braindrain?

Attracting and retaining skilled people is key to building robust communities. Last week, we organised a workshop on the topic at #Reglab, Sweden.

Solving related issues in your region? Join the Resilient Regions Expert Group! premium-eu.org/news/resilie...

19.03.2025 08:53 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Rural re-population: Attracting skilled migrants | Nordregio At this event, we explore which indicators might explain why certain regions are particularly attractive to move to compared to others. We also ask regional policymakers how they changed their…

#Depopulation is reshaping rural regions across Europe. How can policymakers respond?

Get research insights and join the discussions for attractive and resilient rural regions:
🔗 nordregio.org/events/rural...

🖥️ Webinar, 'Rural re-population: Attracting skilled migrants'
📅 29 April 🕙 10-12 (CEST)

21.02.2025 15:54 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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3 legs of 🔗premium-eu.org

🔎 Migration motivations: Analysing social media data to map #migration flows

📈 Spatial effects of #mobility: Exploring impacts on regions people leave vs. flock to

💡 Smart policies: Forming a knowledge base for policy design to serve both migrants and host communities

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05.02.2025 10:41 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0