Policy REcommendations to Maximise the beneficial Impact of Unexplored Mobilities in and beyond the European Union

Project Information

PREMIUM_EU

Grant agreement ID: 101094345

DOI

10.3030/101094345

Project closed

EC signature date 13 December 2022

Start date 1 April 2023

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 2 999 672,50

EU contribution

€ 2 999 672,00

Coordinated by

KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW
Netherlands

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PREMIUM_EU (Policy REcommendations to Maximise the beneficial Impact of Unexplored Mobilities in and beyond the European Union)

Reporting period: 2023-04-01 to 2024-06-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

PREMIUM_EU aims to address the challenges of migration in Europe by promoting spatial mobility as a means of benefiting both sending and receiving regions. It seeks to identify the positive impacts of migration that are often overlooked and to mitigate the negative effects of talent and expertise loss. PREMIUM_EU will use original research to find out how vulnerable regions can benefit from migration and offer tailor-made policy suggestions to local decision makers that counter brain drain and demographic decline.

PREMIUM_EU takes a three-fold approach to exploring positive effects of future migration to and within Europe. First PREMIUM_EU sets out to explore why people move, where they move, and what makes them stay and settle. The opening milestone, the Mobility Module, will collect unique data from social media to help us gain insight into key drivers of migration flows. Second, a closer look at the regions. Both the regions which people move away from and the ones they flock to. The Regional Development Effects Module will identify the spatial effects of mobility on the economic, social, and environmental conditions of both sending and receiving regions. Finally, an evidence-based palette of feasible regional policy alternatives for turning the individual benefits of mobility into societal benefits.

The final product of PREMIUM-EU is a Regional Policy Dashboard, that will help local and regional policy makers and stakeholders to design policies that benefit both migrants and the host communities, promoting sustainable regional development.

PREMIUM_EU looks at the impact of mobilities on regions and the impact of policies on mobilites. The project will supply new knowledge to help policy makers, rural European interest groups, civil society organisations as well as the scientific communit better understand individual motivations, societal consequences and unseen benefits of migration.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

The project formally started on April 1st 2023, and the kick-off meeting was organized from 2-5 April in Utrecht. Its main aims were to introduce the project partners to each other, and to agree on a concrete plan of action for each Working Package. Since then, work on the ethics requirements and deliverables has commenced, and work on the communication plan. The website was aired shortly after the launch of the project, and the data management plan was filed as well.

A second meeting was held in Krakow from 9-10 October 2023. Each WP presented the key activities so far. Important progress was made specifically in WP2, on the estimation of European migration flows, and on the planning of the fieldwork in Poland, Turkey, Denmark, Spain, Austria and the Netherlands. The final structure of the ethics approval procedure was presented, which has been in place since then, involving both the local ethics committees, the KNAW (coordinating partner) ethics committee, and an external ethics advisor (Dr. Sabina Kubiciel-Lodzińska). In this meeting a number of representatives of the SHERPA project also participated, to explore how the results of that project could be beneficial to our project.

From 8-10 April 2024 the third consortium meeting was organized in Copenhagen, back to back with the first public event, an online meeting, with more than 100 subscriptions. In the consortium meeting the first sketch of the overall Dashboard meeting was presented and discussed. Moreover, there were presentations of the sister projects RE-PLACE and MOBI-TWIN, and discussion of how the three projects can create synergy.
In the spring/summer of 2024 various conference presentations were held, at the bi-annual European Population Conference in Edinburgh (June 20224), the IMISCOE conference (July 2024) and the European Regional Science Conference (August 2024), with research results from WP2, WP4 and WP5.

in July a technical report was written, with an overview of the results so far.

The next consortium meeting will be held in Barcelona, from 7-9 October.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

It is currently too early to describe results and impacts.