COREnet COST Action

🌟 Want to improve your skills and share your expertise? Apply for a #STSM (Short-Term Scientific Mission) on migration and religious diversity by January 20, 2025! 📅 More information ⬇️

🌍 Webinar Announcement: Polarised Narratives on Migration Debates – Insights from Topic and Contextual Analysis Approaches 📅 Date: January 15, 2025 ⏰ Time: 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM (CET) | 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM (Bucharest) 📍 Venue: Zoom Debates on migration in Europe have become increasingly polarised, highlighting tensions over national identity, cultural distance, and societal integration. These discussions are often framed by themes like 'border closures,' 'illegal immigration,' and 'cultural threats.' This webinar explores how Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and BERT models can uncover key themes and ideological factors in migration narratives. By analyzing public and political discourse, and the intersections of religion, nationalism, and cultural patriotism and their influence on migration debates. Speakers: 👤 Presenter: Dr. Alessandro Indelicato, Ph.D. Indelicato, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 👤 Moderator: Prof. Dr. Monica Roman, Bucharest University of Economic Studies Language: English More info here:

As we closed the 3rd year of the COST Action COREnet, we took a look at the many useful, engaging and inspiring activities we have done in 2024: 🎤 11 events with scientists, early-career researchers, stakeholders and society members; 🤝 41 meetings that strengthened scientific collaboration between researchers from different countries; ✈️ 12 Short-Term Scientific Missions in ten different countries; 📽️ 18 media resources presenting our activities to the research community, stakeholders and society members; 💻 1 digital database on activities in the intersection of migration and religious diversity. ✨😊👌 The last year of the project 2025 will be even more exciting, with many new inspiring activities ahead! 

📢 Exciting Opportunity for Master’s Students! 🌍 The COST Action “Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity” (COREnet) invites submissions of practice-based master’s theses on #religiousdiversity and #migration for a chance to participate in person at the 38th Biennial ISSR Conference on “Religion, Migration, and Conflicts in Polarized Societies” in Kaunas, Lithuania 🇱🇹 (June 30 – July 4, 2025, Vytautas Magnus University). 🏆 Travel funds will be available for the author of the best master thesis. 📅 Submission deadline: January 31, 2025. All authors of master's theses or their supervisors are welcome to apply! 🚀 For more information, please follow the link in the comments section ⬇️

⏰ Tick-tock! The deadline for submissions of papers is quickly approaching! Don't miss your chance - apply by December 20, 2024. Find all the details below 👇

#COREnet #AcademicWebinar #InclusiveEducation 👉 INVITATION TO COREnet WEBINAR entitled “Education, Dialogue, and Religion: Shaping Inclusive Narratives for Refugees and Migrants in Europe”. It will take place ONLINE on December 18th at 3 PM (CET) in ENGLISH. 📚 Refugees and migrants often face barriers in accessing quality education and social inclusion due to cultural, linguistic, religious identity and other systemic challenges. Marking and commemorating International Migrants Day, this webinar will showcase different perspectives from experts who are working in the field of migrant education and interreligious and intercultural dialogue, highlighting challenges, but also good practices, innovative and creative methodologies which contribute to inclusive education policies. 👥 The webinar will be moderated by Dr. Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović from the Institute for Balkan Studies (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 🇷🇸) For more information and the link to the webinar, please follow the link in the comments section ⬇️

Interested in gaining new skills, knowledge and bringing expertise to your country? Apply for a #STSM (Short-Term Scientific Mission) within the area of #migration and #religiousdiversity by January 20, 2025! 📅 How to apply? Here are a few steps to follow: 🔹 Propose a STSM relevant to the COST Action COREnet. 🔹 Select a Host Institution. 🔹 And make your innovative proposal! 📍 Financial support: up to a maximum of EUR 2000 in total can be afforded to each successful STSM applicant. For more information about the call 👉 https://bit.ly/3VyMOVp  

👉 INVITATION TO COREnet WEBINAR entitled “Fostering Social Cohesion through Participatory and Art-based Approaches in Migration Studies”. This webinar will be led 🎤 by Dr. Gülay Uğur Göksel from Istanbul Bilgi University 🇹🇷 and will take place ONLINE on November 28nd at 17:00-17:45 CET in ENGLISH. The upcoming webinar is the first in a series of online sessions on innovative participatory and practice-based methodologies developed and applied by COREnet members. This webinar will delve into the role of art in transcultural crossings, fostering social cohesion within migrant and local communities. Dr. Göksel will share compelling insights from her experience with arts-based participatory methods - bridging cultural divides, nurturing empathy, and creating meaningful spaces for collective storytelling and solidarity. 👥 The webinar will be moderated by Dr. Evelyn Reuter from Bundeswehr University Munich 🇩🇪 For more information and the link to the webinar, please follow the link in the comments section ⬇️

Dr Türkay Salim Nefes (Spanish National Research Council 🇪🇸) visited the Istanbul Technical University 🇹🇷 to carry out a COST Action #COREnet funded Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) on Turkish Jews’ perceptions of other non-Muslim #minorities and #migrants. The aim of this STSM was to develop a social scientific understanding of how non-Muslim minorities in Turkey 🇹🇷 - specifically Greeks and Jews - perceive the recent migration of Muslims, particularly Afghans 🇦🇫 and Syrians 🇸🇾 Dr. Nefes will design a new study on these minorities’ views. The activities implemented during the scientific mission were vital in preparing this research. STSM will also help to launch this important study, addressing a significant research gap. According to Dr. Nefes, this STSM also provided a valuable opportunity to advance scholarship on migration and minority studies 🧳 Read more about this STSM on the COREnet website (link to the article is in the comments section).

#COREnet Working Group 3 met in Tilburg 🇳🇱 for the final Reflective Café! Meeting was organized in cooperation with Tilburg University 🇳🇱 and a local, formerly faith-based center for informal social support mainly to migrants (MST Keeping People in Focus). The aim was to identify good practices and challenges faced by #professionals who work with religiously diverse #migrantcommunities stretching from Ukraine to the Middle East and Africa. Participants shared their experiences with the services they provide such as immediate humanitarian assistance (food and shelter), language courses and legal support. They also discussed innovative practices and challenges they face when working with religiously diverse migrants communities. Our researchers are currently working on the outcomes of all the Reflective Cafés held in Oslo 🇳🇴, Zagreb 🇭🇷, Rome 🇮🇹 and Tilburg 🇳🇱. Key findings on good practices and challenges faced by professionals working with religiously diverse migrant communities are expected in the next calendar year. Read more about the meeting on the COREnet website (link to the article is in the comments section).