A new report by the JRC on international migration investigates the drivers of different dimensions of migration, helping policymakers to better understand current and potential future trends across the world.
Evidence-informed policymaking needs advocates and skilled practitioners. The summer school aims to help researchers to have more impact and policymakers to use evidence for policy solutions. The workshop will focus on the tools and approaches to inform the policymaking process through evidence. Deadline for application: 17 May 2018.
In a world flooded with information making sense of and communicating knowledge, or evidence, is highly challenging. Evidence-informed policymaking needs advocates and skilled practitioners. The summer school aims to help researchers to have more impact and policymakers to use evidence for policy solutions.
Migrants are particularly exposed to the effects of the digital transformation and are therefore more in need of specific interventions – from education and training to social protection.
The European Commission’s Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) and the IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) launch the Big Data for Migration Alliance (BD4M). Its purpose is to advance discussions on how to harness the potential of big data sources for the analysis of migration and its relevance for policymaking, while ensuring the ethical use of data and the protection of individuals’ privacy.
This month we celebrated the 2nd anniversary of the European Commission's Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) In its first two years of existence scientists and policy makers have been working hard together to forge the KCMD. The Centre has already achieved achieved a lot, successfully providing analysis and evidence for EU policymaking on one of the most important issues of our time.
If population dynamics remain similar to the averages observed between 1960 and 2015, the European Union population could increase to 512 million by 2035 and the population of Sub-Saharan Africa could double to around 2.2 billion by 2060.
Assessing the impact of migration on Europe's changing population is essential for policymaking.
This workshop aims to develop alternative quantitative migration scenarios that correspond to possible alternative policies and help demographers to provide projections which should better inform the policy making process.
A new global analysis of intentions to migrate suggests that individuals preparing to move abroad are more likely to do so out of aspiration for a better life, economic opportunities and development of skills, rather than sheer desperation.
A summary report, the presentations and video resources related to the workshop on big data and alternative sources on migration are now available. The workshop took place in Ispra, northern Italy, on 30 November 2017.
A new web portal provides a single point of entry to knowledge relevant to EU policies on migration and related fields.
The European Commission’s Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) and IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) hold the workshop "Big data and alternative data sources on migration: from case studies to policy support".
The JRC launches a pilot programme to welcome refugee scientists for one-week training programmes at its premises.
The Dynamic Data Hub, run by the Knowledge Centre on migration and demography, has been expanded and now includes data on children in migration.
One year from its conception, the European Commission's Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) has made significant progress and has provided EU policymakers with valuable instruments to access information and data about migration.
On the 1-year anniversary of the KCMD, let's have a look at the main achievements and future plans of the Knowledge Centre, as well as at a new migration profile of Mali.
The European Commission's Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) has expanded the datasets within its Dynamic Data Hub to include forced displacement.
