The Universidad Pontificia Comillas will lead a research project for the European Union (EU), laying the foundations for a future common policy on the integration of immigrant children in the long term. The center responsible for the project will be the University Institute for Migration Studies ( IUEM or Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones), which can consider the awarding of such a project as the best possible gift to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It will be leading a research consortium composed of eleven partners from seven countries (Spain, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Belgium and Germany). The project, which has just kicked off, has a four-year span and a budget of three million euros.

If there was someone happy with this great news, it was definitely Mercedes Fernández, who just completed her term as director of the Institute in September. "I have always been very involved in European affairs. We have been working for many years, and we have a team with a huge vocation for Europe that has always applied for these projects", she said.