Regions benefitting from returning migrants
Economically motivated migration of people from the New Member States to high-income countries is currently dominating international migration flows in Europe thanks to the free right to work in any other EU Member State. This is intensifying a brain drain process of many regions. On the other hand statistics show willingness of people to come back to their countries, however this process is  often associated  with significant problems of reintegration and regions‘ neglecting of returning migrants to support regional economic development of their countries.

This led to the realisation of the importance of this policy issue and was the starting point for development of Re-Turn project as attracting and supporting returning migrants not only improves the regional knowledge base but also strengthens  intercultural competence of innovative actors in an increasingly internationally networked world.

Therefore project‘s main activities are linked to development and implementation of services needed to support migrants in their wish to return, promoting  of returning migrants as a source of innovative enterprise development,  creating  framework conditions for retaining human capital. The project sets to develop, test and implement joint strategies, new support policies, tools and services in participating regions to achieve this in a sustainable way.