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TRACHMED – Exploring Transnational Challenges: Climate Change, Migration, and Energy Insecurity in the Mediterranean is a Horizon Europe project funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges (MSCA-SE) programme (Project No: 101182876). The project runs from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2028 with a total budget of €1,150,000. 

The project is coordinated by Marmara University which leads the overall scientific direction, administrative management, financial coordination, reporting, and implementation processes of the consortium.

TRACHMED brings together an international and interdisciplinary network of 9 beneficiary institutions and 5 partner organizations across Europe and the Mediterranean. The project addresses three interconnected transnational challenges that increasingly shape regional stability and governance: climate change, migration, and energy insecurity. These issues transcend national borders and cannot be effectively managed through unilateral policies. Instead, they require coordinated, multi-level, and cross-sectoral cooperation.

Despite decades of regional initiatives and multilateral efforts, sustainable and long-term solutions to these challenges remain limited. TRACHMED responds to this gap by adopting a transnational research perspective and developing new scientific, methodological, and policy-oriented approaches to better understand and manage complex cross-border dynamics in the Mediterranean basin.

The project combines interdisciplinary research, staff exchanges, and capacity-building activities. Through secondments, joint fieldwork, and collaborative knowledge production, researchers collect empirical data, conduct comparative analyses, and develop innovative conceptual frameworks. These efforts aim to strengthen regional research capacity, foster lasting institutional cooperation, and translate scientific findings into actionable policy recommendations for European and Mediterranean decision-makers.

As the coordinating institution, Marmara University also leads researcher mobility and knowledge transfer activities, hosting and sending staff members for secondments across partner countries. A total of 20 researcher-months of exchanges are planned under its coordination.

TRACHMED represents Marmara University’s first Horizon Europe coordinator role and constitutes a strategic step toward enhancing the university’s international research leadership, policy impact, and long-term collaboration networks in the Mediterranean region.