The VSPS Migration Program was launched with 2 session in Warsaw and Strasbourg. On 3 – 6 November the participants met for the first time during a family dinner and a home cooked Chechen meal. The delicious food was accompanying a discussion on the life of migrants in Poland, lead by Elsi Adajew from Sintar Foundation. In the following days the participant attended workshops on the refugee and migrant crises and Islamophobia.

On 7 – 9 November the participants of the VSPS Migration Program attended the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg organized by the Council of Europe. Apart from taking part in panels and labs on the theme of democracy and education, they visited the European Court of Human Rights and had a meeting with their counterparts from the Moroccan, Tunisian and Turkish Schools of Political Studies.