Dr. Slobodan Janković, Head of the IIPE Centre for Neighbourhood and Mediterranean Countries, participated at the international conference “Migration, Refugees, and Humanity” held at the Kartepe Summit, in Kocaeli municipality, Turkey, from 26 to 28 October 2018. Dr. Janković had presentation titled “Migration Challenge and European Response”, in which he analysed the causes of migrant crises, and reasons for which the European Union changed its migration management policies, comparing it with the situation of the migrants in Serbia. The Kartepe Summit was initiated in October 2017 and is named after the Kartepe Mountain, a ski resort situated south off Istanbul. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan envisages the Municipality Kocaeli, the official organiser of the event, becoming traditional place of gathering scholars, academicians, politicians, and representatives of humanitarian CSOs. This year the most prominent guests at the conference were ministers of foreign affairs and of Interior of the Republic of Turkey, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, and Süleyman Soylu, Greek minister for migration Dimitrios Vitsas, former prime minister of Hellenic country, George Papandreou, representatives of EU, UN and number of the presidents of municipalities and in neighbouring countries.