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| Title | European Asylum Curriculum (EAC) Phase II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of Project | European Refugee Fund | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Description | Objective: The European Asylum Curriculum (EAC) is a EU Member State Initiative aiming to enhance the capacity and quality of the European asylum process as well as to strengthen practical cooperation among the European asylum/immigration systems. The project objective is to produce a common vocational training for employees of the Immigration Services in the EU.
Funding: Phase I was funded via ARGO and Phase II is funded via ERF Community Action Program.
Overview: EAC is a co-operation between the Swedish, Dutch, Czech, Spanish and British Immigration Services with the Odysseus Academic Network to create a European Asylum Curriculum for common vocational training of employees of the Immigration Services in the EU. The EAC-project is realised under the auspices of the General Directors’ Immigration Services Conference (GDISC).
EAC aspires at creating a complete and harmonised learning tool for primarily case workers. Based on the EU-legislation on asylum and relevant international norms EAC will create a learning system that can be used as a common foundation in all 27 Member States. It will build on developments of and experiences from different learning strategies in the Member States as well as relevant NGO’s.
EAC offers a practical approach to training in the field of asylum with an interaction between training in knowledge (theory related to international European legal instruments) and skills (the necessary practical competence for a case office). EAC will provide a “tool-box” that allows the Member States to “pick and choose” from the modules in the Curriculum based on their particular training needs. The practical approach will be evident in the various training methods such as the case-based method, self-training in the form of e-learning with interactive learning methods such as “questions and answers”, exchanges of ideas through web-forums (under tutoring of the trainer). Face-to-face session between the trainer and the trainees will be held for each module, and the trainer’s manual/guide will provide the trainer with useful input for these sessions via cases and role-plays for the specific module.
Realising the EAC: During the first phase in 2006, the EAC team made an inventory of existing training programmes among the Member States as well as among independent university education. The outcome of the inventory and the needs analysis provided a foundation for the Madrid Conference in the beginning of June. The aim of the Conference was to discuss suggested content, methods and implementation of EAC with representatives from the Immigration Services’ asylum managers and training sections. The Curriculum, setting out the framework for the full EAC, was thereafter developed along with a pilot module on EU-Law. The syllabus of the Curriculum was presented at the GDISC Annual Conference in October 2006. (See further the Curriculum)
The second phase (2007-2008) will focus on producing the toolbox from the Curriculum. The management team and experts on content and methodology from the Member States Immigration Services, the Odysseus Academic Network and the Centre for Education Technologies will develop the modules on the different topics. Various didactical methods will be used and training material will be developed in forms of texts, trainer's guides, learning materials with audio-visual and electronic support etc.
In the third phase (2009) the remaining modules of the Curriculum will developed. The project aspires to train national trainers from the Member States on the common toolbox and administration of the EAC Online training, depending on available funding. The project will furthermore promote the development of some kind of coordination office for update, maintenance and coordination of the finalised EAC.
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| Phase | Implementing the second phase of EAC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Results | See documents below. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Contact | The Swedish Migration Board Louise Wahlström (Project Leader) International Coordination Unit Pyramidvägen 2.A, Box 507, 169 29 Solna +46 8 5539 7838 +46 11 15 66 48 (fax) +46 11 708 365 111 (mobile) louise.wahlstrom@migrationsverket.se
The Swedish Migration Board Göran Larsson Sphere of Operations Asylum Legal Practice Division Tegelängsgatan 19A SE 601 70 Norrköping Sweden +46 11 15 61 91 +46 11 15 62 70 (fax) +46 708 15 61 97 (mobile) goran.larsson@migrationsverket.se
Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service Minke Vorstenbosch Hoftzichtpark, room 4.04 P.O. Box 16502 2500 BM The Hague The Netherlands +31 70 3709375 +31 70 3703299 (fax) +31 6 2250 4331 (mobile)
The Czech Ministry of the Interior Martina Vlková Dublin Unit P.O. Box 21/OAM 170 34 Prague 7 Czech Republic +420 974 832 266 +420 974 827 050 (fax)
The Spanish Ministry of Interior Raphael Garcia Directorate General of Internal Policy Asylum Office Pradillo, 40 28002-Madrid Spain +34 915372103 +34 915372141 (fax)
Odysseus Academic Network Philippe De Bruycker Université Libre de Bruxelles CP 137 Roosevelt Avenue, 50 1050 Brussels Belgium +32 2 650 38 90 +32 2 650 45 46 (fax) +32 476 28 22 49 (mobile) +32 650 49 96 (Secretary, Ms Bosmans)
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| Link | www.ulb.ac.be/assoc/odysseus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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News Letter 1