On 20th and 21st February, the first meeting of partners in the research project MAGnituDe: Migration, Affective Geopolitics, and European Democracy in Times of Military Conflicts, funded by Horizon Europe, took place in Gothenburg. The aim of this four-year project is to strengthen democracy and civil society in the Baltic region by improving the relationship between people migrating from war zones and the societies of host countries within the region. The consortium is made up of seven research institutions and two non-governmental civil organisations from a total of eight countries: Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Germany, Slovenia and Spain.

The inaugural meeting was devoted to general issues concerning the division of labour and its organisation in the coming months. Among other things, the ways and channels of communication and the rules for storing the empirical data that will be collected during the planned research were agreed. The researchers representing the University of Gdańsk: Maja Grabkowska, PhD, from our department, and Marta Grzechnik, PhD, from the Institute of Scandinavian and Fennist Studies and Elżbieta Czapka from the Institute of Sociology attended the consortium meeting online. The next project team meeting in the form of a methodological workshop will take place in July in Ljubljana.

You can read more about the project here: MAGnituDe – a new project under the Horizon Programme