OPENMIN - Consolidating Open Science and Data Initiatives on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities in Europe

The project

The OPENMIN project will consolidate and expand a range of Open Science and Open Data initiatives that foster comparative knowledge generation and research capacities on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities and Migration Studies in Europe. 

It is funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) in the context of the multi-national CHIST-ERA Open Science (ORD) call for a two-year period (March 2024 - February 2026).

Project objectives

The project will build on existing collaborations (for example the ETHMIGSURVEYDATA network) and cross-fertilising initiatives of Open Science with the aim of generating European-wide infrastructures that make research and data focusing on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities and on Migration findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). 

OPENMIN will consolidate and expand some existing FAIR tools: 

• the Ethnic and Migrant Minorities (EMM) Survey Registry, the EMM Question Data Bank, and the EMM Post-Harmonized Survey Data Bank, set up as part of the ETHMIGSURVEYDATA project;
• the nccr On the Move Migration-Mobility Survey data analysis and reuse tools; 
• the IMISCOE Migration Research Hub. 

It will also allow for cross-national learning and tool development through the conception and/or generation of new Open Science and Open Data infrastructure tools and resources: 

• a prototype for a new Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Qualitative Study Registry, 
• a self-depositing Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Open Data Repository, 
• a metadata collection on surveys conducted with Ukrainian migrants and refugees,
• the prototype for an Ethnic and Migrant Minorities Survey Data Playground. 

In so doing, OPENMIN will contribute to the Open Science and Open Data strategic agenda for the field of studies on Ethnic and Migrant Minorities, and on Migration more generally. In addition, it is designed to find synergies and opportunities for contribution to the EOSC - EU Node, by mobilizing already existing collaborations with EOSC projects and with the RDA.

Team at the CEE

• Laura Morales, Full Professor (Professeure des Universités), Project Coordinator
• Dimitrios Rafail Tservenis, Post-doctoral Researcher
• Yuma Ando, CNRS Statistician

Partners

OPENMIN brings together a consortium of researchers and technological experts from six European countries. In particular, besides the team at Sciences Po (CEE) that coordinates the OPENMIN consortium, the international team consists of the following partners:

• Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (PI: Prof Dimitri Prandner); 
• University of Liège, Belgium (PI: Prof Jean-Michel Lafleur); 
• Kozminski University, Poland (PI: Prof Justyna Salamonska); 
• Youngminds company, Romania (PI: Bogdan Taut); 
• University of Neuchâtel / nccr - on the move, Switzerland (PI: Prof Gianni D’Amato).