Download the detailed program here
Overview of the program:
| Day 0 – 8th of October 2025 | ||
| 10:00 – 18:00 – PhD workshop ( overall program available on the workshop page) 18:00-20:00– Welcoming reception at ASA building, Vänrikinkatu 3, Turku | ||
| Day 1 – 9th of October 2025 | ||
| 8:30- Registration (open whole day through) | ||
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Session 1.1 Special track: Digitalization in refugee-led business ventures Chair: Stefan Lång | Session 2.1. Migrant and refugee entrepreneurship in the Nordics and beyond Chair: Maria Ivanova-Gongne |
| 10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee break | ||
| 11:00-12:30 – | Session 2.1: Special track: Belongingness in Migrant Entrepreneurship Chair: Alexandra David & Judith Terstriep | Session 2.2. Special track: Migration and Displacement due to Conflicts Chair: Natalia Vershinina |
| 12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch | ||
| 13:30 – 13:45 Welcome words from Refugee Entrepreneurship Research Group | ||
| 13:45-15:00 Opening Panel by Prof. Leo-Paul Dana, Prof. Maria Elo, Saara Pelander and Muntaser AlHamad | ||
| 15:00 – 15:30 – Coffee break | ||
| 15:30-17:00 | Session 1.3 – Special track: Belongingness in Migrant Entrepreneurship Chair: Alexandra David & Judith Terstriep | Session 2.3 – Identity and intersectionality Chair: Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen |
| 18:30 – 21:30 – Conference dinner | ||
| Day 2 -10th of October | ||
| 9-10:30 | Session 1.4 – Special track: Sectoral perspectives on migration Chair: Maria Elo | Session 2.4 – Ecosystems and migrant entrepreneurship Chair: Malin Brännback |
| 10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee break | ||
| 11:00 – 12:15 – Keynote by Juliane Marie Neiiendam Room: TBA | ||
| 12:15– 13:15 – Lunch | ||
| 13:15:13:45 | Meet the editors: Prof. Leo-Paul Dana, Prof. Maria Elo, Prof. Niina Nummela | |
| 13:45-15:15 | Session 1.5 – Immigrant entrepreneurs in the Arctic context Chair: Nafisa Yeasmin | Session 2.5 – Migrant entrepreneurship across contexts Chair: Leo-Paul Dana |
| 15:15 – 15:30 – wrap up and farewell | ||