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The aims of the center are: 

  • ● To create a BGU based platform for academic research, education and public debate on local and global issues related to migrants' lives.
  • ●  To encourage departments from all over BGU to develop and teach courses, in which the students will address the experiences and lives of migrants on a personal and experiential level. To put at the teachers' disposal materials and methodologies developed in DEMO.  
  • ●  To organize events on ​migrants' lives, such as academic and community conferences, exhibits, artistic events etc.
  • ● To support and recruit advanced students interested in the study of migrants' lives.
  • ● To work on obtaining fundin​g to support research and teaching activities of the center.


 

Objectives for the upcoming years are:

Academic Year 2020-2021

  • ●  Granting the annual prizes for excellence in research on migrants' lives and holding a community conference with the prize winners.

Academic Year 2021-2022

  • ●  Developing a bi-monthly colloquium on migrants' lives, open to graduate students and faculty from BGU and later, to other universities in Israel.
  • ●  Creating a website for the Center and linking it with the website of previous projects.
  • ●  Developing a series of seminars of experiential teaching methods on migrants' lives, for teachers at BGU and other academic institutions.

 Academic Year 2022-2023

  • ●  Continuing the bi-monthly colloquium on migrants' lives.
  • ●  Continuing the seminars on experiential teaching methods on migrants' lives, for teachers at BGU and other academic institutions in Israel.
  • ●  Granting the bi-annual prizes for excellence in research on migrants' lives and holding a seminar with the prize winners.
  • ●  Organizing an International Conference on Migrants' Lives. This event will be organized in partnership with: The School of Global Studies at the Gothenburg University, Sweden, and The Department of History, Archeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Greece.
  • ●​  ​Preparing grant proposals to fund the conference and the center's activities.