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NEWS AND EVENTS

INTERVIEW OF DIRECTOR GAVOUNELI ABOUT THE MESSENIA MIGRANT BOAT DISASTER

The RMSHub would like to express its deepest regret for the tragic shipwerck of the fishing vessel in the south-west coastal area of Pylos. 

You can see the interview of the Director of the Refugee and Migration Studies Hub, Maria Gavounelion about the migrant boat disaster on CBC Television here.

As the Greek National Commission for Human...

DIRECTOR GAVOUNELI ON THE LIFO POLITICS PODCAST DISCUSSING THE RECORDING MECHANISM OF INCIDENTS OF INFORMAL FORCED RETURNS

The Director of the Refugee and Migration Studies Hub, Maria Gavouneli, in her role as the President of the Greek National Commission for Human Rights, was invited on the LIFO Politics podcast by journalist Vasiliki Siouti to discuss the newly established Recording Mechanism of Incidents of Informal Forced Returns.

You can listen to the...

OPENING CEREMONY - PRESS REVIEW

On 11 July 2022, we successfully launched our first Summer School on Refugee and Migration Studies. The opening ceremony took place at the ceremony hall of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with the presence of the Minister of Education, the Rector of the University of Athens as well as Deans and Professors from several...

PARTICIPATION OF THE RMS HUB IN THE WEBINAR ‘STUDY IN GREECE VIRTUAL FAIR: EXPANDING BRIDGES BETWEEN GREEK AND USA UNIVERSITIES’

Monday 24 Ιανουαρίου 2022

On the occasion of the International Day of Education, on 24 January 2022 at 18:00 (Athens time), the General Secretariat for Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs & the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad and Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs join forces to organise the webinar: ‘Study in Greece Virtual...

SIGNING OF MEMORANDUM OF COOPERATION: ΤΗΕ COOPERATION BETWEEN HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND UOA OFFICIALLY BEGAN THROUGH THE NEW UOA HUB OF EXCELLENCE FOR ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION

On Wednesday, 19 January 2022 we formally announced the Memorandum of Understanding concluded between the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and the University of Harvard.

FXB CENTER FOR HEALTH & HUMAN RIGHTS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY LAUNCHES AN INTENSIVE SUMMER COURSE ON MIGRATION AND REFUGEE STUDIES IN GREECE

FXB CENTER FOR HEALTH & HUMAN RIGHTS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY LAUNCHES AN INTENSIVE SUMMER COURSE ON MIGRATION AND REFUGEE STUDIES IN GREECE

The François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, in collaboration with the Refugee and Migration Studies Hub at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and with the support of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece and the U.S., has launched a three-week (11-31 July...

RMS HUB LAUNCHES THE SUMMER SCHOOL IN REFUGEE AND MIGRATION STUDIES

RMS HUB LAUNCHES THE SUMMER SCHOOL IN REFUGEE AND MIGRATION STUDIES

One of the first activities undertaken by the RMS Hub is the organisation of a Summer School in Refugee and Migration Studies as a joint project with the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with the support of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece and the US.

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