Imagine trying to guess why someone moves house, but on a global scale. This work uses digital diaries and phone-based surveys to track the actual journey and thoughts of people moving from Africa to Europe. It helps figure out if specific training or laws actually change a person's mind about leaving home.
Policies to manage migration often fail because they are based on guesses rather than how people actually make decisions. Businesses and governments lack precise data on the triggers that cause people to migrate or stay.
A mobile-device-based tool for online choice experiments and a digital diary system for tracking migrants in transit.
If you are a training provider dealing with low engagement in migration-prone areas — this project developed a randomised controlled trial of an entrepreneurship training intervention in Senegal that identifies what actually motivates people to start businesses locally.
If you are a research firm dealing with hard-to-reach mobile populations — this project developed a mobile-device-based tool for online choice experiments capable of reaching tens of thousands of individuals in transit countries.
If you are a consultant dealing with ineffective border or labor policies — this project developed a method to analyze how EU and African policies interact with migrant decision-making using textual analysis and high-level interviews.
Based on available project data, there is no pricing information provided as this is a research-funded project.
The project specifically focuses on Africa as the primary region of origin, but the mobile-device-based tool for choice experiments is designed to handle tens of thousands of individuals, suggesting technical scalability.
Based on available project data, no patents or licensing terms are mentioned; the project focuses on joint knowledge creation.
The project analyzes the design of EU and Member State policies to identify gaps, helping organizations align their operations with more effective policy directions.
The project runs from 2023-01-01 to 2025-12-31, with initial data collection phases occurring in the first 12 months.
The consortium is purely academic and research-driven, consisting of 8 partners from 8 countries. With 5 universities and 3 research centers and 0% industry participation, the project is heavily weighted toward theoretical and causal discovery rather than immediate commercial productization.
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