Project description
How EU migration funding can increase solidarity
Migration is not a new phenomenon but it has recently emerged as a hot button issue in the European Union, challenging the notion of EU solidarity. The EU has allocated considerable funding for migration and cohesion policies. Funding has played a crucial role in tackling inter-state solidarity problems that emerged during the recent migrant wave. The EU-funded FINGOV project will launch a comparative study of the legal and administrative framework of migration and cohesion policies in Greece and the Netherlands. It will evaluate the impact of EU funding on migration policymaking. A conference will be held at the end of the project to disseminate findings and table proposals on how to reform EU migration funding.
Objective
‘FINGOV – Financial Governance’ tests the hypothesis that EU funding could play a crucial role in steering policy implementation and enhancing inter-state solidarity in migration, an area European citizens identify as a key challenge for the EU. The project undertakes a cross-policy (migration and cohesion policies) and comparative (Greece and the Netherlands) analysis of the legal design and administration modes of two types of EU funding: Migration Funds and Structural and Investment Funds. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, and combines doctrinal legal research with empirical qualitative research, incorporating findings through semi-structured interviews with institutional and civil society experts at EU level, the Netherlands and Greece. It delivers an evidence-based evaluation of EU funding’s impact to steer policy implementation and realise inter-state solidarity, yielding proposals to reform EU migration funding. Conceptually, it analyses trends the management of EU funding reveals about the changing nature of the European administrative system, advancing debates on federalism, governance and public policy. To achieve these objectives, I will be based at Maastricht University’s Centre for European Law, a top research institute, home to one of the largest groups of scholars in the world studying EU law. I will follow training in public policy and in problem based learning teaching methodologies, and will acquire transferable skills in leadership, project management, and communication under Prof. De Witte’s supervision. The research is relevant for academics, policy-makers, and civil society: I will distil findings in a journal article and a book manuscript, and formulate evidence based proposals to reform EU migration funding in a policy brief. Dissemination to the scientific and policy community will culminate in a conference. Communication targeting wider audiences will include contributions in open access blogs, online newspapers, and social media.
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2018
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6200 MD Maastricht
Netherlands
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