YOUMIG Improving institutional capacities and fostering cooperation to tackle the impacts of transnational youth migration

Youth migration is intensifying in the Danube Region and it challenges all levels of administrations. It has new drivers (such as online communication channels and new behaviour patterns) and serious developmental consequences. Emigration of young people may cause a severe loss of labour force and human capital, coupled with untraced incoming transfers (such as social and financial remittances), while immigration, if not properly managed, may result in marginalisation and the underuse of human resources.

YOUMIG final brochure

  • Most root causes and consequences of youth migration (age 15-34) affect local governments and services
  • Local authorities are often not sufficiently prepared to deal with these situations
  • More precise evidence base, data and policy tools are needed for local governments in the Danube area to respond to challenges
  • A transnational approach which includes statistical and academic institutions can best build the framework for coordinated actions of migrant-sending, -receiving and transit communities

In YOUMIG, 19 partners from 8 countries will work together to support local governments in exploiting the developmental potential of youth migration, leading to a better-governed and more competitive Danube region. The project aims at boosting their institutional capacities to enhance the scarce local evidence on youth migration, contributing to improved policymaking with a focus on human capital. Statistical offices & academic organisations team up with local governments in a complex and tailored transnational cooperation to create local developmental strategies based on improved impact indicators of youth migration. They will also work together to introduce transnationally tested tools to manage local challenges.

Improving institutional capacities and fostering cooperation to tackle the impacts of transnational youth migration
Start date
01-01-2017
End date
30-06-2019
Budget in Euro
Overall: 2718853,1
ERDF Contribution: 2055178,93
IPA Contribution: 255846,17
ENI Contribution: 0
Call number
Call 1
Priority
Well-governed Danube region
Specific objective
Improve institutional capacities to tackle major societal challenges

Library

Filename Date of upload
YOUMIG Working Paper No.1 15-02-2018 16:42:31
YOUMIG Working Paper No.2 06-05-2019 13:07:45
YOUMIG Working Paper No.3 29-05-2019 14:07:17
YOUMIG Working Paper No.4 05-06-2019 14:52:29
O 6.2 YOUMIG National policy recommendations - Austria 07-06-2019 15:55:21
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Project Partners

Name Type Email Country
Hungarian Central Statistical Office Lead partner marcell.kovacs@ksh.hu HUNGARY
Institute for Economic Research ERDF partner stropnikn@ier.si SLOVENIA
Maribor Development Agency ERDF partner amna.potocnik@mra.si SLOVENIA
Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities ERDF partner t_kiss77@yahoo.com ROMANIA
Municipality of Sfantu Gheorghe ERDF partner gergely.buja@sepsi.ro ROMANIA
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Project News

  • YOUMIG - VIDEOS SHOW YOUTH MIGRATION KEY TOPIC FOR DANUBE REGION
    - 17-06-2019
    VIDEOS SHOW YOUTH MIGRATION KEY TOPIC FOR DANUBE REGION

    Please view our project videos and help spread the word about the important evidence-based approach to the topic of youth migration that YOUMIG (2017-2019) has carried out in collaboration with municipalities, statisticians and...

  • YOUMIG - 7 COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS PUBLISHED
    - 07-06-2019
    7 COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS PUBLISHED

    As one of their final tasks to complete, YOUMIG researchers collaborated on putting together national-level remmondations for improved cooperation on youth migration. These documents, one for each YOUMIG country, are hoped to close the often...

  • YOUMIG - Working Paper 4 completes the series
    - 06-06-2019
    Working Paper 4 completes the series

    YOUMIG has published Working Paper 4, the last in its Working Papers Series, with a focus on the meeting points between local development, policy and youth migration. ’Youth migration and local governance in the Danube region. Challenges and...

  • YOUMIG - INVITATION TO CLOSING EVENT IN BURGAS, BULGARIA
    - 29-05-2019
    INVITATION TO CLOSING EVENT IN BURGAS, BULGARIA

    The YOUMIG project (2017-2019) is drawing to a close. To share the project's results and discuss possibilities for research and policy as well as cooperation in the topic of (youth) migration, the project partners are cordially inviting you to...

  • YOUMIG - Local partners' videos ready for viewing
    - 16-05-2019
    Local partners' videos ready for viewing

    In YOUMIG, 7 local videos were prepared to catch the best moments from the two-and-a-half years' of work undertaking in the project, researching and assessing the administrative challenges around youth migration. The videos were prepared by local...

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