At Migration Matters, we offer trainings that empower organizations and individuals to craft compelling narratives around their research and initiatives, going beyond migration to include a broad spectrum of social themes. Drawing from our experience in video production, digital storytelling, and engaging diverse communities, we offer tailored training sessions for academics, teachers, journalists, students, and civil society representatives. Our goal is to equip groups with the skills to communicate academic findings and stories in an accessible and engaging manner, whether their focus lies in research, education, or advocacy. Through these efforts, we help to complicate dominant narratives, spotlight nuanced stories, and promote a deeper, more informed dialogue on critical social issues.
In April 2024, participants from our Erasmus+ Youth Project “Digital Storytelling for Active Citizenship: Empowering Youth Through Migration Narratives” gathered in Berlin for a hands-on workshop exploring media techniques such as interviewing, filming, and editing.
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In February 2024, we conducted a media training aimed at amplifying the voices of forcibly displaced people in the media. Organized by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC), this event brought together 20 CSOs from around the world to develop new communication and advocacy tools.
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Digital Migration Stories is an Erasmus+ Youth Exchange (2023-24) led by Migration Matters and Cooperative 3E (Finland) to promote active citizenship through digital storytelling on migration.
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Migration Matters together with CERC Migration led an interactive session on multimedia storytelling and alternative modes of knowledge production at the 20th annual IMISCOE conference in July 2023.
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Migration Matters led a film screening and discussion with academics and students at Uppsala University on the potential of digital storytelling for shifting migration narratives and communicating migration research.
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Migration Matters led a seminar on cross-disciplinary practices in communicating migration research for students from the University of Johannesburg’s Sociology department as part of their Digital Migration Studies seminar series.
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