Warsaw Talent Cluster: Warszawski Klaster Talentów
Warsaw Talent Cluster: Warszawski Klaster Talentów
Partners:
CRASH Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility Kozminski University
and
Strategy and Analysis Office, Capital City of Warsaw
Project goals
The aim of the project is to learn about:
- migration corridors of both established and intermediate highly skilled workers currently living in Warsaw;
- migration patterns of highly skilled workers currently living in Warsaw; and
- retention of international students and highly skilled migrant workers.
The project is part of the work of the Warsaw City Hall on the Warsaw 2030 Strategy and the City's position towards the development strategy of the Warsaw Metropolitan Area.
Project effects
The expected effects of the project are:
1.Development of a methodology for examining the mobility of highly qualified migrant workers in Warsaw;
2. Acquiring knowledge and data regarding the project goals;
3. Establishing relations with other cities - talent clusters and entering the circulation of information regarding the functioning of clusters.
Analyzed data
The project will analyze the following data:
1. LinkedIn data
2. 3 FGI with highly qualified migrants, residents of Warsaw
3. Data from the My Migration portal
Project duration: January - December 2024
Project Leader
Professor Izabela Grabowska is sociologist and economist; full professor of social sciences; I was granted PhD by Department of Economics at University of Warsaw and Master Degrees (in economic sciences by University College Dublin and in sociology by University of Wroclaw); in 2021 I joined the Department of Economics at Kozminski University, and set up, as a director, CRASH Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility; in 2016-2021 I was a director of Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of SWPS University, Warsaw; in 2002-2019 I was Research Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research in Warsaw (currently I am a member of its Scientific Board); in 2008-2019 I was a member of IMISCOE Executive Board and Board of Directors; I am a national expert of the European Commission in: ESCO and European Mobility Partnership; now for European Labour Agency, for European Employment Services EURES; I am a co-author of research monograph: Migration and the Transfer of Informal Human Capital. Insights from Central Europe and Mexico (with Jastrzebowska; Routledge 2022); The Impact of Migration on Poland: EU Mobility and Social Change (with White, Kaczmarczyk and Slany, UCL Press 2018) and Migrants as Agents of Change (with Garapich, Jazwinska and Radziwinowiczowna, Palgrave Macmillan 2017); co-editor of Mobility in Transition. Migration Patterns After EU Enlargement (Amsterdam University Press 2013). I led research projects on: migrants’ careers, social remittances, peer-groups & migration (ended in 2020), life courses of young migrants & Brexit (ended in 2021), migrant liquid integration (H2020 MIMY, ended in 2023). In 2023 I won as a scientific coordinator Horizon Europe research project Link4Skills.
Social researcher, doctor of social sciences in the discipline of political science. She completed her Master's degree at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University in Ukraine (Museology and protection of historical and cultural heritage) and at University of Warsaw in Poland (Center for East European Studies). Member of the Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility (CRASH) at Kozminski University. Member of the Polish Sociological Association (Migration Sociology and Qualitative Sociology sections). Her research interests mainly include Ukrainian migration, women's migration, the relationship at the interface of state and international migration, migrants' political inclusion and participation, their social integration and qualitative research methods. Her doctoral thesis was on the political rights and participation of foreigners in Poland.
She is currently a researcher in the projects "BigMig: Digital and non-digital traces of migrants in Big and Small Data approaches to human capacities" (OPUS-19, NCN), Link4Skills (Horizon 2023), and the Warsaw Talent Cluster project (in cooperation with the Warsaw City Hall).
She was also a researcher in the projects: "MIMY: Empowerment through liquid integration of migrant youth in vulnerable conditions" (Horizon 2020) and "The Impact of COVID 19 on Ukrainian Women Migrants in Poland" (funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation). Between 2017 and 2023, she was the coordinator of integration projects at the Ukrainian House Foundation.
PhD of Information Technology, scientific researcher in Social Informatics, academic lecturer, Associate of the Center for Research on Social Change and Mobility (CRASH)
Post doc in the research project “BigMig: Digital and non-digital traces of migrants in Big and Small Data approaches to human capacities” carried out at the Kozminski University in Warsaw (Poland), under the supervision of prof. dr hab. Izabela Grabowska.
He conducts research in the realm of Social Informatics with use of natural language processing, text mining, big data analysis, processing of data from social media, Wikipedia, dialogue systems.
Since 2019 Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Computer Technology- Warsaw, Poland (PJATK). In 2019 he defended his PhD thesis “Formal model, methods and algorithms for detecting controversy of Wikipedia articles and search queries”.
Social researcher in the field of sociological, cultural and political sciences.
PhD student at the University of Warsaw's Interdisciplinary Doctoral School. The main research topic of his doctoral studies is national identity. Research interests also include international relations, migration and diasporic issues. Qualitative researcher in many scientific projects, including OPUS and foreign projects, such as. Aspirations for return and secondary migration among Ukrainian refugees, project No: 83347, managed by The Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research and funded by Norwegian Directorate of Immigration.
At the Kozminski University he is a researcher in project “BigMig: Digital and non-digital traces of migrants in Big and Small Data approaches to human capacities” (2020/37/B/HS6/02342 OPUS), which is financed by Poland’s National Science Centre; and in project Warsaw Talent Cluster. Since May 2024 he has been a Research Assistant in Link 4 Skill Project (Horizon Europe).