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What is migrants’ economic impact on European rural and mountain regions? Does migration stimulate innovation in firms and causes change in communities? The new MATILDE report, which includes a cross-country examination of the migration’s economic impact of in 14 rural and mountain regions, provides answer to these questions. In the new

MATILDE researchers will organize a panel discussion at the 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference held online between 7-9 July 2021. Europe’s largest interdisciplinary research network in the field of migration, integration and diversity studies, IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe) organizes its 18th Annual Conference ‘Crossing borders, connecting cultures’

The Horizon 2020 project MATILDE publishes the impact assessments of policies on migrants’ interaction with the social and economic structure of the remote and rural areas in the MATILDE countries – Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and in the United Kingdom. The MATILDE Policy Brief (Deliverable 3.1

The University of Eastern Finland (UEF) replaced Eurac Research as Lead Partner in the MATILDE Project. On 15 January 2021, the Extraordinary General Assembly (GEAS) of the MATILDE Consortium unanimously endorsed the proposal to transfer the role of Lead Partner from Eurac Research to University of Eastern Finland. Prof. Jussi P.

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