Call for Papers: Conference "Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: Transnational Skill Partnerships" 24-26/5/2023 (68th AWR Conference)

01/27/2023

CALL EXTENDED UNTIL FEBRUARY 28, 2023! ONLINE CONTRIBUTIONS POSSIBLE!

The Conference ”Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: Transnational Skill Partnerships" is a three-day multidisciplinary scientific international conference hosted by the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS) during its 2023 International Week in cooperation with the Association for the Study of the World Refugee Problem (AWR), the Nuremberg Institute of Technology (NIT), and the German Jordanian University (GJU) (May 24-26, 2023).

See for the related call for papers: https://ifas.thws.de/transnational-skill-partnerships/.

The objective is to explore the potentials of, as well as the need, success factors and required arrangements for Transnational Skill Partnerships to create a triple win in line with the 2018 Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM, A/Res/73/195).

Five years after the endorsement of the 2018 Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM, A/Res/73/195), the envisioned outcome of the conference is a thematic and inclusive contribution to the development of its objective 18 “Invest in skills development and facilitate mutual recognition of skills, qualifications and competences”, and specifically the topic of transnational skill partnerships.

The scientific objectives are six-fold:

  1. Evaluation of transnational skills partnerships’ claim to create a triple win for countries of origin, countries of destination and migrant workers.
  2. Evaluation of needed transnational management structures
  3. Identification of the potentials, limits and needed arrangements for transnational skill partnerships on the levels of skilled workers and academic degree holders.
  4. Evaluation of transnational education institution as hubs for skill partnerships.
  5. Evaluation of potentials, limitations and needed arrangements for transnational skill partnerships with the MENA and Sub-Saharan African regions.
  6. Creation of a scientific network on transnational skill partnerships as a contribution to save, orderly and regular migration.