In a heart-breaking disaster, southern Turkey and Syria went through agonizing days. By a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in the early hours of the morning of February 6, tens of thousands of people lost their lives, and millions were displaced from their homes. A few hours after, the region was shaken by another major earthquake. Almost...Read More

-BROAD-ER kicks-off its Seminar Series for the Spring 2023. The first Seminar will be given by Prof. Ricard Zapata-Barrero from GRITIM, Pompeu Fabra University- MiReKoc is delighted to invite all interested participants to join us for the upcoming MiReKoc-BROAD-ER Wednesday Seminar Series, organized under the BROAD-ER Project and in collaboration with Koç University College of...Read More

-The kick-off meeting of the BROAD-ER (Bridging the Migration and Urban Studies Nexus) Project was held during 24-25 November 2022 at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.- The BROAD-ER Project is an EU-funded Twinning Project that primarily intends to lay the foundations of strategic networking and collaboration in the themes of migration and urban studies. BROAD-ER received...Read More

BROAD-ER aims at building a Research Excellence Network which will foster interdisciplinary research and education at the nexus of migration and urban studies. The project will cover three main dimensions, the Internationalization of Cities (MiReKoc – Turkish Team), Establishing New Relations between the National and the Local and increasing autonomy from National Government (GRITIM-UPF –...Read More

Koç University Department of International Relations faculty member and director of Migration Research Center (MiReKoc) Professor Ahmet İçduygu and his team was awarded a grant of ~1.4 million euros from the European Commission Twinning Action fund for his project, entitled “Bridging the Migration and Urban Studies Nexus BROAD-ER” making it the second Twinning project to...Read More