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b) Migration Summer School: “Migration and Asylum in Times of Crises”
In collaboration with Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC)
24-30 July 2023
For a seventh year in a row, the ELGS ran the Migration Summer School (MIGSS). This successful 7-day summer
school ran in English is designed and developed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of

Field trip at Schisto refugee camp - Team of 2022
issues regarding policies of integration of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Europe, especially in the
shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Both migration and asylum issues are central topics in national and global
governance. The rise in the number of international migrants has been unrelenting over the last twenty years,
reaching 281 million people living outside their country of origin in 2022 (United Nations, 2022).

This program offers participants insights into migration in these special circumstances (pandemics) stressing its
relevance for a worldwide discussion on migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. This year’s program also included
the field trips condition which enhanced
participants’ experience in the field.

In this week-long course academics and experts
from European and International Universities,
Institutes and research centers participated. More
specifically:
- Maurizio Ambrosini, Professor, University of
Milan, Italy.
- Eva Duda, Assistant Professor University of
Wroclaw, Poland.
- Massoud Sharifi, Associate Lecturer,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
- Bernd Parusel, Senior Researcher, Swedish
Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS).
- Wenjing Guo, Anthropologist, Researcher,
Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
- Athanasios Vitsentzatos, Director of Social
Integration, Ministry of Migration and Asylum.
- Triantafillia Ipsaralexi, Ministry of Migration
and Asylum, Greece.
- Eugenia Kopsidi, ELGS Resident Lecturer,
EPLO/ELGS, Greece.
- Lénárd Sándor, Associate Professor, Károli
University, Hungary.
Cultural Visit at the Hellenic Parliament - Team of 2023 - Omar Sayfo, Associate Professor, Károli
University, Hungary.
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