This proposal seeks to assess how migration governance has been influenced by the recent ‘refugee crisis’, and how crises at large shape policy responses on migration. Since the beginning of the ‘refugee crisis’ in 2014, different policy responses have been put forward by governments and international organisations alike. Albeit very different from one another, these different responses had two common traits: - They were generally presented as the sole realistic solution in the face of a situation that was often characterized as ‘unsustainable’. - They were often geared towards a more efficient control and surveillance of the borders. As the humanitarian crisis and the dire situation in countries such as Italy, Greece or Hungary should have prompted more cooperation in the EU, policy responses usually hinted at less cooperation, with the notable exception of the control and surveillance of the EU external border. This meant that the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean soon transformed into a political crisis with the EU, culminating in the Brexit referendum, where the issue of border control played a decisive role in the decision of the British electorate to leave the EU. As an attempt to revive the idea of a global governance of migration, the United Nations issued on 19 September 2016 the New York Declaration, which led to the launch of the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees - both are them are still being negotiated at the time of submitting this proposal. Therefore, MAGYC seeks to appraise these policy responses in the light of the crisis and assess their efficiency for the long-term governance of migration.

This consortium recognises the resurgence of China as a top tier great power is changing the world, and the EU needs to develop a long-term approach based on knowledge to engage strategically with the resurgent and increasingly assertive China as well as the global changes unleashed thereby, including the process of selective ‘de-coupling’ and persistent US-China tension. To assist this, this consortium will bring together some of the best researchers across seven countries to work in a synergetic way to build up a world class independent knowledge base on China in Europe. We will do so by engaging in critical scientific research, nurturing a generation of younger scholars and building up a collaborative network that endures. The key subjects we will address will cover all the key areas identified in the Horizon call, namely, society and culture, politics, economy and foreign policy. Furthermore, this consortium will prioritise impact and dissemination for the EU, the corporate world, the media and the wider public across Europe. The building up of independent knowledge on a resurgent China will enable the EU to better deal with it.

PROJECT SUMMARY OPENMIN brings together a consortium of researchers and technological experts from six countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Poland, Romania and Switzerland) that will collaborate to consolidate and expand a range of Open Science and Open Data initiatives that foster comparative knowledge generation and research capacities on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities and Migration Studies in Europe. The project will build on existing collaborations and cross-fertilising initiatives of Open Science that have been supported by a combination of national and EU-level programmes with the aim of generating European-wide infrastructures that make research and data focusing on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities and on Migration findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). OPENMIN will consolidate and expand the following FAIR tools: (1) the Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Survey Registry, (2) the Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Question Data Bank, (3) the Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Post-Harmonized Survey Data Bank, (4) the Nccr On the Move Migration-Mobility Survey data analysis and reuse tools, and (5) the IMISCOE Migration Research Hub. It will also allow for cross-national learning and tool development through the conception and/or generation of new Open Science and Open Data infrastructure tools and resources: (1) a prototype for a new Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Qualitative Study Registry, (2) a self-depositing Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Open Data Repository, (3) a metadata collection on surveys conducted with Ukrainian migrants and refugees, and (4) the prototype for an Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Survey Data Playground. In so doing, OPENMIN will contribute to the Open Science and Open Data strategic agenda for one of the core areas of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in the social sciences and the humanities in Europe: the field of studies on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities and on Migration more generally. RELEVANCE TO THE CALL OPENMIN directly addresses the core goals of the CHIST-ERA ORD call by generating, expanding and consolidating several infrastructures and tools that establish the conditions for research data reuse and which, in most cases, are designed with reusable (and open) software or programming code. These are: - The Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Survey Registry: it creates the conditions for data reuse of thousands of quantitative survey datasets produced across Europe since 2000 through the publication of detailed metadata on the surveys (in DDI 2.5), and the architecture of this tool has been produced with reusable programming code. - The Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Question Data Bank: it creates the conditions for data reuse of survey questionnaires through metadata using DDI Lifecycle. - The Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Post-Harmonized Survey Data Bank: it creates the conditions for data reuse of independently produced surveys that are pooled together in a single file through processes of data post-harmonization that are documented in open access code. - The Nccr On the Move Migration-Mobility Survey data analysis and reuse tools: they provide the conditions of data reuse and data reanalysis to large audiences, with reusable and open code. - The IMISCOE Migration Research Hub: it creates the conditions for the reuse of a larger range of research on migration through its detailed metadata documentation of research expertise, publications, projects and datasets. The new datasets, collections and tools that will also be generated through OPENMIN will all adhere to the FAIR principles. Additionally, we will start the process to link them to EOSC through their onboarding on the EOSC Catalogue.