With Southern Europe suffering deeply from the financial crisis, a renewed public discussion on emigration from this region has emerged. The European South, which had only recently become a destination for immigration, seems to be experiencing a new major emigration wave. This is especially true for Greece, the country which has been hit hardest by the economic crisis and concomitant austerity measures. Despite public attention on the matter, however, little is known about who is emigrating, what alternative mobility strategies are considered and pursued, or the reasons underling migration decisions. EUMIGRE will provide an answer to these questions by introducing an innovative mixed methods approach. This approach allows identifying and studying a sizeable and diverse group of young adults whose spatial and social trajectories are retrospectively traced to explore the influence of the current crisis on their strategies. In so doing, it will also contribute to migration theory at a period when space-time flexibilizations, processes of neoliberalization, and the economic crisis are changing established modalities of and motivations for migration in ways that render the emigration–immigration country distinction obsolete.

Transbountary environmental pollution constitutes a major challenge in international collaboration. Although global cooperation and coordination can benefit everyone involved, each country would like to unilaterally free ride on everyone else’s efforts. A number of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) are drafted and ratified to this date, in an effort to address this problem. While the process is ongoing it is widely accepted that IEAs are either of small size (in terms of signatories) or non-enforceable. The proposed study will provide a framework that captures the current situation better than the models in the existing literature, by explicitly formalizing the negotiation process underlining the formation of an IEA. Moreover, it will formalize the linkage between environmental problems and other political and economical issues (e.g. trade agreements and R&D). Shedding light on the issues that surround and on the mechanisms that generate the constitution of an IEA will assist in identifying strategies and tools that can enhance IEA participation and enforceability in the future. IEAs have been studied during the recent years in an effort to both explain why they are ratified by a fraction of the total number of countries, and suggest ways in which the number of signatories could increase. In order to capture the interdependence among countries' choices and the widely spread externalities that lead to the strategic behaviour of countries involved in negotiations of IEAs we use game theory as the tool of analysis.

Southeast European Institute for Law and Economics of Intellectual Property (SEILEIP) will be established, as intellectual property (IP) research and educational pillar. Interdisciplinary doctoral studies and professional courses for target group members (IP professionals) will be developed and designed for securing effective links between education, research and business, as one of the key priorities of the EU (Article 118 TFEU; Single Market Act - Lever 3; EUROPE 2020 Strategy references to IP management and valuation; and latest t developments in EU IP legislation ( IP Enforcement Directive; the new EU trademark package); the tendencies of the European patent system and the efforts for copyright harmonization in Europe (specially in the digital environment). 30 professors and university managers from MK, BG & GR will be retrained in respective academic fields. Professors will develop the curricula and deliver 12 doctoral and 21 professional courses and will prepare e-books and teaching materials in areas such as: Theoretical Foundations of Intellectual Property Law & Economics; Methodology of Scientific Research in Intellectual Property; Valuation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) ; Quantitative Research Methods in Intellectual Property;Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement; Economic Analysis of Law ; EU Competition Law; EU Industrial Property Law (Patents, Trademarks and Industrial Designs);European Law of Copyright and Related Rights; IPRs in the Digital Environment; Licensing and Technology Transfer; Management of Intellectual Property and Intangible Assets. 10 doctoral students will be admitted in a three year Ph .D. programme, out of which 3 students with fewer opportunities and obstacles (scholarships provided). 40 IP professionals (IP managers; IP intermediaries; IP agents, judges, prosecutors, attorneys at law; IP offices employees, enforcement agencies employees) will be retrained in the area of :1. International IP Law; 2. IT Law; 3. Dispute Resolution in IP; 4. Trademark Law; 5. Patent Law; 6. Law on Industrial Designs; 7. Contract Law;8.Traditional Knowledge in IP; 9. Media Law; 10. Pharmaceuticals and IP; 11. ;Legal Research and Writing; 12. International and Comparative Patent Law;13. Protection of Geographical Indications; 14. European and International IP Law; 15. Managerial Finance; 16. Computer crime; 17.Taxation of IP;18. Protection of Bio-technological Inventions; 19. TRIPS, Patents and Public Health; 20. Cross-border Trade in IP; 21. Collective Management of Copyright & Related Rights. Dissemination activities include development of IP e-learning portal/ web page; a European Conference of Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and publishing of a peer-reviewed Journal of Law & Economics of IP. The research and education offered through the project aims at higher enforcement level and promotion of IP management and valuation, as tools for economic development. Sustainability is based on subsequent doctoral studies tuition fee and course fees from IP professionals, as well through Southeast European IP networking action plan . Quality control and monitoring in accordance with ENQA standards is foreseen. The main indicators of progress would be a reduction of infringement cases and higher awareness for the importance of IPRs protection. The project deliverables will be measured through EU and international reports concerning number of intellectual property rights infringement cases and IP violation cases before the courts and the increased number of trained professionals and researchers with Ph.D. in IP related topics.

<< Objectives >>In this program there will be a partnership between vocational education, a university and the IT company from another country. Student with the help of the University and a IT company will learn how to develop a drone and get in touch with the Internet of Things. They will make a prototype drone. Through this project Vocational students will learn how IT companies operate and will learn the modern problems that an IT company has to face.<< Implementation >>Activity 1 : Project coordination, Financial, Scientific and technical management Activity 2. Technical Requirements in Software and Hardware for the Construction of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Activity 3: Online Lessons from the IT Company Activity 4: Lessons from UOWMActivity 5: Educational trip Activity 6: Dissemination - Construction of the Website and Social media dissemination Activity 7: Equipment acquisition for UOWM Activity 8: Equipment acquisition for Vocational School<< Results >>Vocational students:Will know how IT companies operate.Will learn the modern problems that an IT company has to face.Will get to know the employment opportunities that exist in the IT sector both in Greece and abroad.Will see the way in which large IT programs are implemented and will interact with professionals in the field. Will get in touch with professors from a university.Will participate in lectures in a university. Will get to know the facilities of a university.