<< Objectives >>- Use digital storytelling and solutions journalism as tools for promoting active citizenship and strengthening diversity, equityand inclusion (DEI) competences among youth.- Empower youth to understand and to discuss migration, diversity and inclusion questions through enhanced media literacy skills and digital competience.- Produce and promote a digital self-learning guide for strengthening DEI competences, media literacy skills and migration knowledge among youth.<< Implementation >>- Kick-off meeting in Finland- Virtual learning events focusing on digital storytelling and solutions journalism- Hybrid workshops focusing on migration in the European context and in the European media coverage- Practical digital production workshop in Germany- Production and publication of digital stories produced by youth - Production of digital strory and guide describing the process and results << Results >>- Participating youth have the skills, courage, and competence to use digital storytelling and solution journalism approach tovoice their views, and participate in the public debate.- Participating youth have improved knowledge on migration in the European context and the ability and tools tocritically view the media content handling migration and have developed their own DEI competences.- Published project results contribute to local and national level youth and media education work.

GAPs is a comprehensive study on the drivers of return policies and barriers/enablers in international cooperation on returns. The project examines the disconnects between expectations of return policies and their actual outcomes by de-centering the dominant, one-sided understanding of “return policymaking.” GAPs will: a) scrutinize the shortcomings of the EU’s governance of returns with both its internal and external dimensions; b) analyse enablers and barriers of international cooperation c) shed light on the perspectives of migrants themselves to understand their knowledge of return policies, aspirations and experiences. By taking a close look at governance, cooperation and actor’s agency, the project is able to suggest new avenues for international cooperation, develop recommendations for stakeholders and explore alternative pathways to returning migrants. The project combines its decentering approach with three innovative concepts: a focus on return migration infrastructures that enable GAPs to analyze governance fissures; an analysis of return migration diplomacy to understand how relations among EU MSs and with third countries hinder cooperation on returns; and a trajectory approach that uses a socio-spatial and temporal lens to understand migrant agency. The project achieves its aims via multi-disciplinary, qualitative and quantitative comparative research in 11 countries in Europe, Africa and the broader Middle East (including Afghanistan). The project involves wide-ranging and innovative impacts, including the creation of interactive data repository on returns, a return cooperation index, return governance indicators, policy briefs and workshops, the formation of stakeholder expert panels, a digital storytelling and video series, the launching of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) as well as open access policy and scholarly publications.