"In order to discuss migration in the context of Europe and Mediterranean it is essential to take a step back in history: to a period where the current situation has its roots. And that is back in the ’90, when Europe started to erect a series of barriers to mobility across the Mediterranean: visa started to [...]
MEDRESET's Elite Survey in numbers Our partner institutions conducted a regional survey between July 2017 and May 2018, with 169 interviews in 9 countries. The aim of the study was to assess the perception of the EU, and the effectiveness and potential of EU policies in the Mediterranean region from the perspective of local elite. The results will [...]
MEDRESET is going to be present, together with MENARA, another EU-funded research project, at the World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Seville between 16 and 20 July with a series of research panels. The panels will revolve around issues such as the water-food-energy nexus, the challenges to the regional order and the EU policies towards [...]
In the framework of the 2018 IMISCOE Annual Conference, MEDRESET partner FIERI has organized a panel. The conference took place in Barcelona from the 2nd to the 4th of July and it is considered to be the largest European conference on migration studies. MEDRESET's panel, chaired by Ferruccio Pastore (Fieri), was entitled "(Re)framing migration in the Mediterranean". The [...]
"The aim of our project is to press the reset bottun in the Euro-mediterranean relations". Watch our latest video where our researchers explain the aims and the challenges of MEDRESET
MedRset has launched its Young Writers Prize in Arabic, English and French. If you have written a B.A., M.A. or PhD thesis on Mediterranean issues that has not yet been published and you are under 35 years old participate! You can send your texts (3-5000 words) in Arabic, English or French until the 1st of September 2018 [...]
On the 13th and 14th of December, part of the MedReset Consortium will meet in Meknes at the Université Moulay Ismail to work on the current research work packages as well as a Public Conference entitled "Key policy challenges in the Mediterranean after the Arab uprisings" Draft Programme Programme_14 Décembre 2017 Conference Report
Second MedReset Policy lecture by Anoush Ehteshami, from Durham University, which focuses on the main themes of MedReset WP2. WP2 (geopolitics) aims at assessing how EU policies still match the changing geopolitical configuration of the Mediterranean area by examining the role, influence, and impact of rising major powers on the Mediterranean. Visit the publications section for in-depth [...]
First MedReset Policy lecture by Professor Tobias Schumacher, from the College of Europe - Natolin Campus, which focuses on the main themes of MedReset WP1: The WP1 (EU Construction of the Mediterranean), MEDRESET identified the EU construction of the Mediterranean and its own role understanding in this process. By observing its discourses and policies in the region, [...]
