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.
