New FP7 project launched at CPS

A new three-year research project entitled 'Ethnic differences in education and diverging prospects for urban youth in an enlarged Europe' has been successfully launched.

The research project EDUMIGROM aims to study how ethnic differences in education contribute to the diverging prospects for minority ethnic youth and their peers in urban settings. It is a comparative endeavour involving nine countries from among old and new member states of the European Union, including Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. EDUMIGROM will explore how far existing educational policies, practices and experiences in markedly different welfare regimes protect minority ethnic youth against marginalization and eventual social exclusion.

The project is funded through the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission, and was launched on March 1, 2008. The research involves 10 partner institutions from across Europe and is led by the Center for Policy Studies  at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.