Regional growth through strategic interregional mobility policies

Tens of millions of people move within and across European countries each year in search of better jobs, housing, or quality of life. People move for...

Is your region resilient to brain drain? Policy workshop at Reglab 2025

Local communities in Sweden are losing population and skilled people to the larger cities. Most regions rely on migration for upholding and developing...

Event: Rural re-population: Attracting skilled migrants

More deaths than births – a growing list of regions and countries are hitting this somber milestone. Some populations are only growing because of migr...

Join the Resilient Regions Expert Group!

Which policies attract skilled migrants? The Regional Policy Dashboard is an interactive database that transforms our research into tangible policy re...

Rural resilience and policy labs in Kiruna

PREMIUM once again participated in the Nordic Conference for Rural Research, this year hosted in Kiruna in the most Northern part of Sweden, with the...

PREMIUM_EU at the Conference “Sustainability, Water, and Territory”

From October 16-18, 2024, the Spanish regional science association (AECR) and the University of Castilla-La Mancha hosted the conference Sustainabilit...

Tapas, Talk, and Transformation: Inside the Barcelona consortium meeting

Two weeks ago PREMIUM_EU held a fourth physical meeting in the glowing city of Barcelona. Although we are spread throughout nine countries and ten ins...

New Report Develops Key Regional Indicators to Measure Migration’s Impact on Development

A newly released report, "Regional Development Indicators," by Dr. Korrie Melis and Dr. Elles Bulder, is providing the PREMIUM_EU project and eventual...

Cross-Country Migration Analysis at IMISCOE 2024

From July 2-4, 2024, the IMISCOE network—Europe’s largest interdisciplinary research association in the field of migration, integration, and social co...

Scotland & sustainability, policy & populations

Blog by PREMIUM_EU researcher, Becky Arnold. Last week I was fortunate enough to attend the European Population Conference 2024 in Edinburgh, arranged...

First annual event went off with a bang – watch the recording

PREMIUM_EU's digital open-house was widely anticipated, with  over 120 sign-ups, four external panelists and five speakers from the PREMIUM_EU team ea...

PREMIUM_EU at The Population Association of America’s

Our Spanish team from The Centre for Demographic Study, Autonomous University of Barcelona represented the European perspective and PREMIUM_EU’s metho...

PREMIUM_EU’s first year – consortium meeting in Copenhagen

Our project has just rounded its first year. What happens in a single project year when researching migration’s effect on regional development? A happ...

Full programme for: “Meet PREMIUM_EU” event

Panelists are confirmed and the full programme is now available for our first annual event: "Meet PREMIUM_EU". Download the programme here Register he...

First annual event: Meet PREMIUM_EU

How can the individual benefits of migration translate into societal benefits for the left-behind regions? Join us at the PREMIUM_EU project's first a...

PREMIUM establishes a partnership with the MOBI-TWIN project

PREMIUM has begun a partnership with the MOBI-TWIN project, starting off 2024 with an even more cooperative approach to understanding the challenges a...

What has PREMIUM been up to in 2023?

Quite a lot… Research is ongoing and already showing promising potential. There are seven work packages, working together and in parallel, to make sur...

See you at EU Week of The Regions and Cities

PREMIUM_EU sends consortium representatives to scope out one of the biggest knowledge hubs for regional development in practice. A chance to connect a...

Next consortium meeting in Krakow

Every half year all the project partners check in to take the temperature on PREMIUM_EU's research developments and strategic direction. This time the...

Introducing PREMIUM_EU: A new project to prevent brain drain in Europe

Can research and AI-generated policies counter migration trends that tend to harm vulnerable regions? A new project kicks-off an ambitious attempt to...