The consortium members

The University of Lille is the coordinating institution of the consortium, which is composed of 11 full partners universities. In addition, 17 associate partners (NGOs, administrative institutions, and academic organizations) are members of the consortium.

  • Higher Institute of Information and Communication (ISIC, Rabat, Morocco)

  • Peace Action Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR, Cluj, Romania)

  • Médecins du monde (MDM, Athens/Lesbos, Greece)

  • Médecins sans frontières (MSF, Athens/Lesbos, Greece)

  • Association for Social Development and Aid Mobilization (ASAM, Ankara, Turkey)

  • Migration Research Association (GAR, Istanbul, Turkey)

  • Cáritas Arquidiocesana do Rio de Janeiro (CARJ, Rio, Brazil)

  • Associação Brasileira de Apoio à Integração de Migrantes e Refugiados (MAWON
    Rio, Brazil)

  • Diaspora Development Education Migration (DIADEM, Dakar, Senegal)

  • PROMotion Intégration Société nouvelle (PROMIS, Montréal, Canada)

  • Municipalité de Wroclaw (Wroclaw, Poland)

  • CCFD-Terre Solidaire (Lille, France)

  • Association for Multicultural Integration (NOMADA, Wroclaw, Poland)

  • Sclabrini Migration Center (SMC, Manilla, Philippines)

  • Oasis Belgium (Brussels, Belgium)

  • Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (OFPRA, Paris, France)

  • Institute of French Studies (IFS, New York University, U.S.A.)

How the consortium operates

The partner universities of the MITRA consortium host MITRA Master’s students for one or two semesters and award them a degree. The consortium universities offer opportunities for supervising students' field research and professional internships. Three of them (ULB, Aegean, and UGR) provide occasional courses as part of their annual Summer School. All consortium universities organize scientific events in which students can participate.

The non-academic partners associated with the consortium introduce students to the professional world by welcoming them for volunteer activities and internships. Located across four continents, these partners include humanitarian associations, administrative institutions, and academic organizations. The list of these partners is available under About MITRA > Consortium Members.

The consortium has established connections with many other organizations and associations that also offer internship opportunities and experience-sharing activities by regularly participating in the program.