Facilitator: Prof. d-r Irena Rajchinovska Pandeva, Head of the Center for Refugee Law and Migration
• Prof. d-r Nikola Jankulovski, Rector of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius
University in Skopje
• Prof. d-r Goran Koevski, Dean of the Iustinianus Primus Law Faculty-
Skopje
• Mr. Claudio Delfabro, Director, Department of International Refugee Law and Migration Law, International Institute of Humanitarian Law,
Sanremo, Italy

Duration: 90 minutes
Methodology: PPT, case study
Structure:
The lecture will be divided into three parts:
1. lecture on the legal foundation of the protection of refugees and migrants, and
particular vulnerable groups of refugees and migrants (45 minutes)
2. discussion with participants on the vulnerability of refugees and migrants (20 minutes)
3. case study on the recognition of refugees and particular vulnerable groups of migrants (20 minutes)
- final conclusion and remarks (5 minutes)

Duration: 60 minutes
Methodology: presentation, key messages
Structure:
• Mapping the theory behind reality: conflict, refugees and migration
• Conflict and its impact on global crisis of displacement
• Refugee Flows and Forced Displacement
• Showcasing conflict ridden countries

Duration: 60 minutes
Methodology: TBC
Structure: TBC

Duration: 90 min
Methodology: case studies, presentation, key messages, discussion
Structure:
• a series of case studies on identification of categories of individuals in need of protection (incl. international protection): refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, stateless persons, migrant workers, environmental migrants.
• definition of refugee and migrant worker
• common misconceptions and mistakes in definitions
• definition of refugee in 1951 Convention: Art 1(A) inclusion clauses)

Lecturer: Bostjan Zalar
Duration: 70 minutes
Methodology: presentation, case study, discussion
Structure:
• Introduction to the political concept of “war on terrorism” (as an example of emergency situation).
• Landmark court rulings as reactions to emergency situations declared by executive branch of governments.
• Legal status of asylum and subsidiary protection under EU law.
• The concept of exclusion from refugee status and subsidiary protection due to serious reasons for considering that the applicant has committed certain crimes or has been guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
• Exclusion from international protection in the case law of the Court of
justice of the European Union (B&D, C-57/09 and C-101/09; Lounani, C-573/14, Ahmed, C-369/17);
• Eventual interplay between (international) criminal law and law on
international protection.
• The use of undisclosed evidence, principle of non-refoulement and interplay between ECHR and EU law.
• Detention of asylum seekers and national security (J.N., C-601/15 PPU)
• Position of non-removable third-country nationals.
• Conclusions on main challenges for the rule of law in the field of
international protection in the light of emergency situation.

Lecturer: Prof. Slavica Janeshlieva, PhD and prof. Goce Nanevski, MFA, Faculty of Fine Arts, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius; Shergo Mousa, Refugee artist)
Methodology: presentation, key messages, discussion
Duration: 60 minutes
Structure:
• Visual art as a formative document
• Visual artists as advocates for refugees and refugee crises
• Artistic reflections and articulations of experiences of migration

Lecturer: Jaap de Zwaan
Duration: 90 minutes
Methodology: presentation, key messages, discussion
Structure:
• Migration as a problematic of all times;
• the institutional and legal framework of EU policy making;
• the Internal Market as a core objective of EU cooperation;
• the Schengen cooperation;
• the scope of EU competences in asylum and immigration policy;
• the achievements and shortcomings of the EU asylum and immigration policy thus far

Duration: 90 minutes
Methodology: presentation, key messages, discussion
Structure:
1st Part: Theoretical Considerations – The Holistic Approach to Migrant Exclusion
2nd Part: Methodological Considerations – Conducting interviews with
interpreters in a refugee camp setting
3rd Part: Three Spaces of Preparation for Exclusion – Country of Origin, Turkey, Greece
4th Part: Refugees in Moria – Living Conditions and Perceptions
5th Part: COVID-19 in Moria – Continuities and Discontinuities
6th Part: Discussion
The course aims at presenting the present situation in the hotspot of Moria utilising interviews from refugees living the camp. The first part of the presentation will outline a theoretical context through which one can understand the consequences of the management of the crisis on refugees themselves. By tracing important aspects of their journey, it appears that refugees become familiarized with marginalization, while seeing the latter as an inescapable part of their social status. This seems to undoubtedly undermine their future integration in whichever European country they eventually end up in being accepted. The second part of the presentation involves the latest developments concerning the COVID-19 and the consequences, both negative and positive, that these have on refugees. The lack of testing and hygiene conditions could turn Moria into a breeding ground for the virus. However, the isolation of Moria from the rest of the island came at a time when the local and international extreme right was making its presence in Lesvos strongly felt. The nation-wide lockdown acted as a form of temporary protection against extreme right criminality. At the same time, the possibility of Moria being exposed to the virus from a second wave undermines
refugees not only in the obvious manner, but also leaves room from further violent escalation from local and international extremists.

Lecturer: Andrea Membretti
Duration: 90 minutes (60 mins lecture + 30 mins question time)
Methodology: Lecturing ‘ex cathedra’
Structure:
The session aims presenting:
• the reversal of the trend of emigration and depopulation in many European mountain contexts in the last 20 years, due mainly to international immigration flows
• the contribution of foreign migrants (labor ones as asylum seekers and
refugees) to local development and community resilience in several mountain territories, with a specific focus on the Alps and Apennines
• the contribution of the new approach defined by MATILDE H2020 Project to the investigation of this phenomenon in rural and mountainous regions of Europe

The session intends also to discuss:
• the first consequences of Covid-19 and anti-pandemic measures with
respect to migrant’s condition in rural and mountain areas
• the emergence of a new “compulsion to locality” as a consequence of a
radically different approach to mobility and proximity in a structural post
Covid-19 situation

Lecturer: UNHCR
Duration: 90 minutes
Methodology: presentation, case studies, key messages, discussion

Duration: 90 min
Methodology: presentation, videos, key messages, discussion
Structure:
• Durable solutions as the end of the displacement cycle
• Preliminary considerations and key components of durable solutions
• Outline of each of the traditional durable solutions (Voluntary Repatriation, Local Integration, Resettlement) supported by Complementary Pathways

Lecturer: UNHCR
Duration: 90 minutes
Methodology: presentation, case studies, key messages, discussion

Duration: 60 minutes
Methodology: presentation, key messages, discussion
Structure:
Historically, Canada has been considered as one of the “classical immigration countries”. Canada considers its acceptance of immigrants as one of the main factors that enhance its global standing and demonstrate its compassion and leadership in the area of migration and human rights. The country has a very structured intake of voluntary migrants, but it has also been open to refugees. Immigration, settlement practices, and multiculturalism have been Canada’s trademark. This session will focus on the importance of immigration, Canada’s recent policy shifts towards highly-skilled workers, and the programs that Canada has in place in order to support immigrants and refugees before, during and after COVID-19 pandemic.

Duration: 60 minutes
Methodology: presentation, key messages, discussion
Structure:
The disruptions of the global pandemic have dismantled our status quo in a space of months. It demonstrates that the baselines of the humanitarian system have fundamentally and irrevocably shifted. We know now that we can’t build back to what it was before - that the global pandemic has shown up in harsh light the fundamental cracks in our global systems and structures. And thus, the institutions we were prior to this cannot be the institutions we must be post this.
What could the new normals in a post-COVID world look like? How do we prepare for the unexpected, so that major disruptions don't keep catching us by surprise?
How do we think about humanitarian aid in a much broader context than we are used to?

Duration: 90 minutes
Methodology: Lecturing ‘ex cathedra’; Team work following the methodology of Future City Game; Competition “Youth and crisis: how to build a post-crisis world”
Structure:
The session has a triple objective:
• to question the theoretical history of the concept of ‘crisis’ and to understand the conceptual hegemony of the crisis as a major metaphor of contemporary society;
• To argue the author’s provocative idea “If the crisis did not exist, it would have been invented by populist leadership”;
• To analyze and compare three crises – refugee, climate, pandemic – in terms of elite’s and citizen’s responses.

Movements in the Western Balkans

Zoran Drangovski - Macedonian Young Lawyers Association (moderator);
Panagiotis Paschalidis - Eliamep, Greece;
Prof. d-r Biljana Djordjevic - MIGREC University of Belgrade;