Aims: The aim of the programme is to train professional researchers with a comprehensive view of the world migration processes, being those processes between countries or of internal mobility, and produced by the uneven development in countries, by social violence, or by race, sex and religion discrimination. Researchers who respect human rights and who respond to the demands coming from institutions for the development and implementation of the various migration policies. In particular, doctors should be able to apply knowledge in practice and to be competitive in national and international labour markets (e.g., social institutions and social education centres, local governments, municipalities, European institutions, international organizations, NGOs).

Description: The aim of the agreement is to get the contracting institutions promote the development of a common policy in the “Doctoral Programme in Human Mobility” in the form of an integrated programme, jointly administered by the signatory institutions of this Consortium. These should promote research and training projects conducted by professors and researchers from the participating institutions, as well as the exchange of information, publications and other educational materials. The signatory institutions of the Consortium undertake to promote the mobility of professors and researchers involved in research exchange or training activities offered by associated institutions mentioned in the agreement. On the other hand, it will promote the mobility of postgraduate students and in particular their participation in the doctoral programme. Within this framework, the institutions promote, with special care, the development of intensive joint research on advanced aspects and applications of human mobility, favouring the participation of students and professors. The doctoral programme aims to promote mobility of students within a network of research departments spread over 6 European countries (France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland). (Mobility is compulsory in at least 3 countries). The doctoral programme, together with the prestigious institutions associated, also has the ability to create joint projects to develop lines of cooperation between the EU and third-country institutions, thus contributing to increase the visibility of the European higher education and transmitting the values and principles of the European Culture.