Dear Fellows,
We are pleased to invite you to join our first national conference to be held in Palermo, Sicily, which aims at bringing international students, migrants, Gambian communities in Italy and other Community Based Organizations for the first time to share a platform.
This conference will start with the welcoming of our guests/invitees; followed by presentations, group activities, group discussions etc. You can follow our facebook page for any updates regarding this particular event: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100071452043893 Topics will be centred around stories of international students and migrants, migration and the potential options for those students, phd candidates, researchers who wish to stay in Italy or return to their home country. Don’t forget to tell us if you wish to join us! Take a moment to fill this form now: https://docs.google.com/…/1ih5xMi0XvyI6IiE0fkAfLHI…/edit
Face-to face meeting with MOFA 26/01/2024
We had a face-to-face meeting with the Permanent Secretary and Director of Migration and Diaspora of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians abroad to unveil a strategic plan that our organization wishes to explore starting this year. We shared our organizational plans, discussed common objectives, and strategized on potential collaborations to address challenges encountered by Gambians in both The Gambia and Italy, as well as across Europe. We also made a follow-up on our draft Memorandum of Agreement(MoA) that we sent to the Ministry on the 14th February, 2023.
A quick check in on students at the University of Padova 16/01/2024
In our move to bring all Gambians in academia under one umbrella in Italy, our top priority is to continue mapping and reaching out to Gambians who are in Italy to pursue their studies.
We affirm our willingness to meet not only students/academics but also Gambians who are in other walks of life trying to pursue their careers or make ends meet.
During the meeting, we shared our plans, discussed our common objectives in line with our constitution and plan on how to work together as students/academics to address our common challenges both in The Gambian and in Italy as well as in Europe
Press Release
Gambian students and researchers in Italy: a milestone reached
The Gambian-Italian Association of Students and Researchers (GIASR) is a non-profit organization registered in Italy on 22nd November 2022. It is the first time an association composed of Gambian-Italian students, researchers and other professionals from various walks of life is created in Italy. This milestone has been reached through years of collective and systemic consultations, mapping and research on the challenges faced by Gambians in Italy and more generally in The Gambia and Europe. The main goal of GIASR is to improve existing migration management challenges through active participation in both Italy and The Gambia. GIASR believes its establishment highlights the possibility to co-create together a bright and sustainable future. Accordingly, any such future can only be achieved through discussion tables, systemic co-designing, evaluation, and implementation of project-programmes aimed at common interests of all relevant stakeholders within the migration ecology… Read More