The DEI community, the CSR/RSE Department and the GreenTeam are pleased to invite you to a seminar on Tuesday May 28 with Francesca Rosignoli, a Senior Professor within the Institute for Minority Rights at Eurac Research (Bolzano, Italy): "Why Gender Matters in Climate-Induced Migration and Displacement. Exploring the EU Response."


The event will take place from 2 to 3.30pm in the Jules Bordet room, on the ground floor of the Metchnikoff building, and online via Teams.   

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Francesca Rosignoli is a specialist in human rights, environmental governance and migration. Her research explores the intersection between gender equality, human mobility and climate justice, with a particular focus on European policies and international legal frameworks.

During the seminar, she will examine the central role of gender in understanding migrations and displacements induced by climate change, showing how climate impacts interact with existing social, economic and cultural inequalities to produce differentiated vulnerabilities depending on gender.

Her analysis will highlight the European Union's responses to these challenges and the extent to which the 2024 reform of the EU's migration and asylum policy introduced significant changes to border management and to control and governance procedures during crises, especially pinpointing the lack of specific legal recognition for environmentally displaced people.


She will also emphasize the progress made by the European institutions in integrating gender questions in environmental and development policies, through strategies and resolutions that link gender equality, human rights and sustainable development.

The seminar will offer an opportunity to discuss the need for intersectional, gender-sensitive approaches rooted in human rights to better deal with the complex realities of contemporary climate-related migrations.