CENS colleagues Gabi Gőbl and Andras Szalai have participated in a panel discussion in Vienna on June 9, 2016, on the first public event of an Austrian initiative seeking transborder cooperation related to the refugee crisis and migration. It was the first joint event of the project titled Joint solutions for common challenges: How to deal with the refugee and migration crisis across borders. 

CENS is a partner in the project - led by the Austrian Society for European Politics - about developing joint initiatives and cross-border cooperation in the CEE region, focusing mainly on civil society.

Besides the brief presentation of each partnering country's social and political background in context of the refugee crisis. The panel summarized the project aims and the preliminary results and ideas of the first joint workshop of the initiative that was also held in Vienna on the same day.

Please see the article of the Austrian newspaper Der Standard on the project and the event as attachment below

More pictures on the event HERE