The Department for International Economic and Political Relations implements the project the International Relations – Determinants of Resilient Sustainable Development (MO4R) project. This project is funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026 over a four-year period from 2024 to 2027. Researchers involved in the MO4R project focus on identifying and analyzing security, economic, political, cultural, and other social processes needed achieve sustainable development and enhance the resilience of the Republic of Croatia in both regional and international contexts. The primary research areas include:
- stability and security (UN Sustainable Development Goals 9, 11, 16 and 17),
- competitiveness and innovation (Goals 8, 9, 11 and 12), and
- global challenges and international context (Goals 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 16 and 17).
Additionally, project addresses, to a lesser extent, issues related to relevant cultural and economic , social, and natural resources and their utilization (Goals 3, 4, 5, 11, and 1).
The Center for Migration Studies is a part of this project.
The research conducted facilitates the identification of relevant social and economic processes, as well as the formulation of necessary policies and measures to enhance resilience and sustainability.
Besides scientific research, project activities encompass the dissemination and expansion of knowledge and the popularization of science.
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Annual meeting of the European Council for Foreign Policy
Senada Šelo Šabić participated, as a Council member, in the annual meeting of the European Council on Foreign Relations. The meeting was held in Madrid, 4-5 July 2024 The annual meeting brought together over 280 participants from Europe and the world. Some of the...
Research ‘Tracing a Migrant Subject: Race, Ethnicity, and Borders’ presented at the IMISCOE Conference
Emina Bužinkić, PhD from IRMO presented a research paper titled "Tracing A Migrant Subject: Race, Ethnicity, Border," which discusses the roots of racialized violence against Muslims and migrants through methods of critical discourse analysis and political ethnography...
Emina Bužinkić presented her research on young refugees from Southeast Asia and North Africa
From June 24 to 29, the biennial international conference of the Social Studies Education Consortium (SSEC) was held at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech, Morocco. The conference, focused on the continuous deepening of the synergy between education and social...
Centre for Migration Studies
The Centre conducts and develops migration studies with the goal of contributing to public debate and raising awareness within Croatian society of the various aspects of migration’s impact on the country’s development.
The establishment of the Centre as a centre of excellence aims to achieve recognition and systematization of migration research and to establish a framework for collaboration with scientists, initiatives, and institutions involved in migration related issues. Topics of focus include the status of foreign workers and the challenges of their integration, border regimes and security issues, the role of local communities in developing cultural policies and integration practices for working with refugees and migrants, the media representation of migrants’ positions and Croatian citizens’ perceptions towards migrations, among others.