“Integration Policies in Europe: Testing Community Sponsorship and Competing Models”

A Summer Training School (STS) gathering leading scholars and experts to provide participants a theoretical and practical knowledge of the multidimensionality of community sponsorship and competing models in Europe.

WHEN: 30 June – 4 July 2025

WHERE: Viterbo (Italy), DISTU Dept., Room 6 – hybrid mode

🎓 La Summer Training School (STS) del corso di laurea magistrale internazionale in Security and Human Rights del DIKE: un’eccellenza UNITUS! Qui il Welcome Address di Daniela Vitiello e Tamta Gventsadze, coordinatrice e trainer della School!

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🎓 The Summer Training School (STS) of DIKE’s international master’s degree programme in Security and Human Rights is a UNITUS excellence! Below is the welcome address by Daniela Vitiello and Tamta Gventsadze, the School’s coordinator and trainer!

Integration Policies in Europe: Testing Community Sponsorship and Competing Models

The Summer Training School (STS) on ‘Integration Policies in Europe: Testing Community Sponsorship and Competing Models’, is an intensive 5-day course exploring the multidimensionality of community sponsorship and competing models in Europe. The course focuses on the legal underpinnings of these models, with the aim of identifying the main features of a European model.
Hosted by the PRIN 2022 ‘Community Sponsorship for Migrants in Europe’ (CoSME) project and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on the Integration of Migrants in Europe (IntoME) project, the course will take place at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo. It will provide attendees with an extensive and thorough understanding of the following four key aspects: a) the EU’s contribution to the design and standard-setting of sponsorship-based pathways; b) the complex relationship between admission, reception, and integration in sponsorship schemes in Europe; c) the impact of fragmented status and rights on durable solutions for beneficiaries; and d) the principles and values underpinning the creation of a common European sponsorship model. These dimensions will be explored from various viewpoints, including legal, political, social and economic
perspectives.

Target group

Master’s and PhD students, Erasmus and international students, practitioners in the field of migrant studies. The STS activities have been scheduled in hybrid mode to allow participation both in person and online.