It is with great pleasure that we inform that the CEDU is involved in the project "Transnational Migration, Citizenship and the Circulation of Rights and Responsibilities" (TRANSMIC), a project funded under the European Commission's Marie Curie actions and which will run from 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2018. The aim of the project is to contribute to the understanding of transnational migration, in particular by looking at the conditions for and effects of transnational migration, possibilities for the mobility of migrants' rights to be enhanced, and the links between migration, citizenship, and migration and development. 

The TRANSMIC project is coordinated by Maastricht University (The Netherlands), and also includes as partner institutions, besides the University of Minho, the Universities of Liège (Belgium), Oxford (UK), Aix-Marseille (France), Tampere (Finland) and Warsaw (Poland), as well as the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels.

The Law School of the University of Minho and CEDU will contribute to the project through the hosting and supervision of a PhD student who will work on a research project on the topic "Transnational Migration, Postcolonial Ties and Mobility Partnerships between the EU and Third Countries". The PhD project will be supervised by Professor Patrícia Jerónimo (a collaborating member of CEDU) and co-supervised by Professor Maarten Vink, of Maastricht University. The Law School will also host, in April 2015, a one-week training session, which will gather Professors and PhD students from all the partner Universities.