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Implemented across 10 countries, the Horizon 2020 project MATILDE publishes portraits of its 13 pilot areas and sketches the conceptual framework that will guide the research In order to assess the socio-economic and territorial impact of international migration of Third Country Nationals in rural and mountain areas, MATILDE researchers began with

Funded by EU’s Horizon 2020 facility, Migration Impact Assessment to Enhance Integration and Local Development in European Rural and Mountain Areas (MATILDE) project has been launched earlier this year, on February. The project will last 3 years and seek to uncover the true developmental potential of migration across 13 rural and

Migration is steadily at the core of European debate. Against this backdrop, MATILDE seeks to inform the discussion by focusing on the migration perspectives of rural and mountain regions. How does foreign immigration impact on these regions, often marred by the feeling of being “places that do not matter”? Funded under

Despite global trends of urbanization and agglomeration, economic and forced migration flows are moving outside urban areas. So far, this has largely been perceived as yet another burden for already marginalized territories. AIMMATILDE aims to examine migration impacts on local development and territorial cohesion in European rural and mountain regions, to