MAPS 1ST CONFERENCE
👉🏽 SAVE THE DATE : 🗓️ 28 July 2025 (9.00-18.30) | 📍 Serena Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Hybrid modality
key infos
The MAPS Conference 2025, scheduled for July 28th in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, aims to be an interactive platform for scholars, policy makers, practitioners, and key stakeholders to exchange knowledge on migration and displacement challenges across Sub-Saharan Africa.
The conference brings together diverse perspectives, connecting African and European academia, international organizations, EU agencies and delegations, civil society organizations, private sector representatives, media, diaspora communities, and national authorities actively involved in migration and higher education policy. The initiative prioritizes human rights, gender equality, environmental sustainability, and the protection of vulnerable groups such as women, children, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
Four thematic roundtables will be held to foster research, debate, and dialogue on key dimensions of migration and forced displacement, exploring the following areas:
Peace – Conflicts, borders and border policies, human rights
People – Gender, age, disabilities, and vulnerabilities
Planet – Climate change, disasters, natural hazard stressors, resilience
Prosperity – Education, employment, health, housing, equality, socio-spatial inclusion
The Conference is supported by the European Union in the framework of the MAPS project* – “Migration and Displacement Action Plan for Sub-Saharan Africa. Developing policy-oriented research on Migration and Displacement in the Sub-Saharan Region”.
Conference Schedule – Monday, July 28th, 2025
09:00 – Opening Ceremony and Welcome Address
09:30 – Introduction to the MAPS Project. Cristina Giudici, University of Rome La Sapienza
10:00 – Roundtable 1. People. Introduction by Opportuna KWEKA, University of Dar Es Salaam
11:45 – Roundtable 2. Planet. Introduction by Valérie GOLAZ, INED
13:15-14:30 – Lunch Break
14:30 – Roundtable 3. Peace. Introduction by Leben Nelson MORO, University of Juba
16:15 – Roundtable 4. Prosperity. Introduction by Natal AYIGA, Kabale University
18:00 – Advancing Analytical Approaches in Migration Studies – Lessons Learned and Future Directions
18: 30 – Closing Ceremony
How to attend
Participation is free, both in person and online
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!! > the link will be available soon
information and full details coming shortly: 🔔 Stay tuned!
* The MAPS Project—coordinated by the UNESCO Chair in Migrations, Population, and Development at Sapienza University of Rome— promotes evidence-based policy solutions on migration and displacement and involves a multidisciplinary consortium from Europe and Africa. Partner institutions include six Italian universities hosting UNESCO Chairs (Sapienza, Udine, University Iuav of Venice, Brescia, Ferrara, and Reggio Calabria), the University of Barcelona (Spain), the University of Dodoma (Tanzania), the University of Kabale (Uganda), and AMREF International University (Kenya). Advisory institutions contributing to the MAPS initiative include the IOM Regional Data Hub for West and Central Africa, the Catholic University of Rwanda, and the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa).
