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Join us for the first GS4S webinar, titled ''Migration more important than ever: reflecting on the situation in Bangladesh, its relationship with Italy, and insights for EU policy.'' 🌟 On July 8th 2024, the European Commission launched the program “Supporting a Talent Partnership with Bangladesh’’ to promote mutually beneficial, regular, and safe mobility and legal migration pathways to the EU, as well as reduce illegal migration, and risks that come with it. On August 5th, Bangladesh experienced an important political shift. What happens next? With this question as a starting point, Tesseltje de Lange, Jasmijn Slootjes, Shakirul Islam, Ferruccio Pastore and Jessica Hagen-Zanker from the Horizon Europe project ‘Global Strategy for Skills, Migration and Development’ (GS4S) and Michalis Moschovakos from the European Commission embrace the uncertainty to explore: (i) the current situation in Bangladesh and the role of migration, (ii) the potential and drawbacks of Bangladesh’s bilateral relations, with a focus on migration corridor between Bangladesh and Italy, and (iii) insights for EU policy.   The webinar will take place on November 12th, 2024, at 2 PM CET. To attend and read more about our speakers, please register on the event page (link in comments). ⭐

📢 Join Our Upcoming Webinar: Insights on Bangladesh-Italy Migration & EU Policy 📢 On November 12th, Horizon GS4S is hosting an engaging webinar to discuss the evolving migration dynamics between Bangladesh and Italy, and the policy focus needed for this significant migration pathway to the EU. This session will provide updates on the European Commission's "Talent Partnership with Bangladesh" initiative, exploring how it aims to support safe, legal, and mutually-beneficial mobility by creating formal migration pathways for Bangladeshi talent to the EU, reducing irregular migration, and mitigating associated risks. In light of the significant political shift in Bangladesh that took place in August, this conversation is now more relevant than ever. Our expert panel will dive into the implications of these recent changes and offer valuable policy insights to strengthen EU-Bangladesh cooperation: ⭐ Tesseltje de Lange, Centre for Migration Law - Radboud University (The Netherlands) ⭐ Shakirul Islam, OKUP - Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Program (Bangladesh) ⭐ Ferruccio Pastore, FIERI - Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull'Immigrazione (Italy) ⭐ Jessica Hagen-Zanker, ODI (UK), and ⭐ Moderator: Jasmijn Slootjes, Migration Policy Institute Europe (Belgium) with the participation of ⭐ Michalis Moschovakos, European Commission 🔹 Date: November 12th 🔹 Time: 14:00 PM - 15:00 PM CET 🔹 Register Here: https://lnkd.in/gPtFEWws Don't miss this opportunity to be part of the conversation on migration, policy, and international cooperation!

This week our project manager Konstantinos Georgiou presented the paper "SKILLAB: Creating a Skills Supply and Demand Data Space" at #eSAAM2024 discussing the interconnection between SKILLAB as a skills demand platform and data spaces! Great conference, great people, great minds! Open Community Experience Eclipse Foundation Rosaria Rossini Philippe Krief Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ebCdq_PJ

📣 Our first newsletter is now available! Have a look to find out more about the GS4S consortium, advisory board, upcoming and past events, as well as deliverables. Find the newsletter below, or here: https://lnkd.in/gMZXWgS2

Another contribution from our team! Tesseltje de Lange, a member of our coordinating team at the Radboud University and the Centre for Migration Law - Radboud University writes on case-law concerning international student visas. Our project investigates skilled migration pathways into the EU. International students' rights are part of those pathways.

The second GS4S working paper is out! 💡 ''The overeducation of migrants in Europe'' - written by @Angela Dalmonte, @Tommaso Frattini and @Sofia Giorgini from Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano - underscores the need for policies that better align immigrants’ skills with labour market demands in Europe. Such policies would avoid the waste of valuable immigrants’ skills - harmful not only to migrants but to the economies of receiving countries too.  Using data from the European Labour Force Survey (2012–2022), the authors show that: 📚 Immigrants, particularly those from non-EU countries, are significantly more likely to be overeducated than natives. 📣 Despite a general decline in overeducation levels for all groups over time, the immigrant-native gap remains, especially for foreign-educated migrants. 🔺 The likelihood of overeducation for foreign-educated migrants increases until 15–19 years after migration - a pattern consistent across all areas of origin and migration cohorts. ⚪ Differences in educational quality between origin and destination countries do not primarily account for these overeducation differentials. ❕ The paper is accompanied by an interactive dashboard, Skill Waste Across EU Member States. The dashboard is accessible via the project website. We invite you to explore our data and have a look at the working paper. Both links are provided in the comment section. ✨

Registrations are now open (link in comments) for the first GS4S Webinar - 'Migration more important than ever.' The webinar is taking place on November 12th at 2 PM CET. In this event, we will learn from experts representing 5 GS4S partner organizations: ⭐ Tesseltje de Lange, Centre for Migration Law - Radboud University (The Netherlands) ⭐ Jessica Hagen-Zanker, ODI (The UK), ⭐ Shakirul Islam, OKUP - Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Program (Bangladesh) ⭐ Ferruccio Pastore, FIERI - Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull'Immigrazione (Italy), and ⭐ Jasmijn Slootjes, Migration Policy Institute Europe (Belgium). GS4S researchers will also be joined by ⭐ Michalis Moschovakos from the European Commission. Join the conversation!

Today, we held the first Annual meeting of the GS4S consortium and the Social and Scientific Advisory Board (SSAB) of our project! ✨ We are glad to have had the opportunity to share more details about the project and get feedback from members of the board. During the meeting, project coordinators Tesseltje de Lange, Pascal Beckers and Colleen Boland from the Radboud University first gave a comprehensive update on activities and milestones achieved since the start of the project in January 2024. In continuation, team members Friedrich Poeschel from the European University Institute (EUI) and Dina Abdel Fattah from the American University in Cairo (AUC) presented in more detail some of the current GS4S research. For more information, stay tuned and sign up for the upcoming GS4S newsletters at the bottom of the page (link in comments). 🤩

The Recast #SinglePermitDirective Recognizing that #migration fuels growth, innovation, and social dynamism, the RSPD is moving forward, but not on more legal migration pathways. While the initiative envisions a “well-managed system” that not only bolsters economic development but also creates sustainable legal routes to attract global talent to the EU, the Single Permit Directive recast was one of the instruments named to achieve the 2020 Pact promise of more sustainable legal pathways to attract talent to the EU. While the recast can be seen as an improvement on most counts discussed above, it could have offered more. Read the discourse exploring the potential consequences of limited legal migration pathways in the latest blog post by Prof. Tesseltje de Lange, Director of the Centre for Migration Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Horizon GS4S PI at the Odysseus Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe blog: https://lnkd.in/dj4gQ97D #SinglePermitDirective #EUMigration #TalentAttraction #LegalMigration #SustainableGrowth #EUReform #LabourMigration

The first GS4S Working Paper, 'Skills-Oriented Migration in the Western Balkans,' is now also available in Serbo-Croatian (link in the comment section). 💡 After the initial analysis presented here, GS4S researchers are now looking in more depth at policy implications for Western Balkan and EU countries. 🌍 Stay tuned!