TCP 1 2021 Insights

For TCP1, two workshops were organised and carried out, the participants being practitioners and experts from the MEDEA network, along with EASO, Frontex, the Hellenic Police, Professors of Migration Law, and the Red Cross EU, Italy, and Spain. In addition, representatives from the Hellenic First Reception Office and the Border Protection Division joined the workshop to provide first-hand experiences and insight. 

The first workshop (October 23rd 2020) aimed at bringing together various stakeholders in migration and asylum management in order to hold a productive interaction on various common and recurrent identified gaps that have emerged through the TCP1 working scenarios. The gaps were grouped under three topic areas (namely (a) Policies and Legal Issues; (b) Tools, Means, Risks, and Training and (c) Practitioners’ cooperation and Common processes). Based on the outcomes of the workshop, TCP1 partners developed and circulated a comprehensive document – and later on, a newsletter – summarising the workshop’s findings.

The second workshop (March 23rd, 2020) was dedicated to the THOR analysis of the gaps already identified in the previous workshop. This analysis focused on all pertinent attributes that relate to the gaps, regarding technological, human, organisational, and regulatory challenges and shortcomings and centered around assessing the urgency and feasibility aspects of requirements, as well as prevention and response capabilities.

MEDEA is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Programme, under grant agreement no 787111