BROAD-ER: Bridging Migration and Urban Studies
The research project BROAD-ER: Bridging Migration and Urban Studies received 1.4M € from the European Commission Twinning Action fund (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03).
Jan Rath is one of the Principal Investigators. Next to him, one new postdoc researcher has been appointed at the University of Amsterdam: Norma Schemschat. The other PI's are Ahmet Içduygu, Director of MiReKoc at Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey; project coordinator) and Ricard Zapata-Barrero at Gritim, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. The project will run for 36 months starting November, 2022.
BROAD-ER aims at building a Research Excellence Network which will foster interdisciplinary research and education at the nexus of migration and urban studies. The complementary knowledge, skills, and expertise of two top-class universities, UvA and UPF will be leveraged alongside their structured institutional capacity, to turn KU’s weaknesses into strengths. BROAD-ER will reinforce MiReKoc, leading Turkish institution in the migration field, position and develop its scientific, technological, and development-driven management capacities. The collaboration of these 3 universities aims at closing the research gap within the ERA by establishing innovative and interdisciplinary approaches while also increasing Research & Innovation capacities in Turkey in pivotal emergent fields namely migration and urban studies. BROAD-ER aspires for KU to become an important regional Centre of Excellence for South-Eastern Europe and enhance its collaboration with ERA countries.
It will achieve these objectives through diverse activities focusing on research knowledge transfer, enhancing KU’s research capacity and a developing a comprehensive sustainability strategy. BROADER will offer scientific and research management training activities to researchers including research proposal management, key transferable skills (ethical issues, diversity, equity and inclusion, scientific outreach, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, etc.) while addressing research excellence in the project’s fields. The training plans will be complemented with mobility activities allowing the establishment of networking structures and increasing KU’s internationalization. BROAD-ER will result in multiple (joint) publications in high impact top-tier journals, an increased capacity to attract research funding and undertake proposal management and an updated open and transparent recruitment process for researchers.
For more details, go to the BROAD-ER website.
