Project duration: April 2013 – April 2015
Financed:
Implementing Partners: Ministry of Interior of Hungary; International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD);
Project budget: 1.014.398,30 EUR
The overall goal:
To contribute to strategic and operational cooperation in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region in the area of cross-border crimes prevention with a special focus on irregular migration, and more effective and coordinated border management.
The main objectives:
- Preventing and fighting irregular migration;
- Promoting readmission, voluntary return and sustainable reintegration;
- Promoting integration of legally residing migrants in their host societies;
- Asylum and international protection.
The main activities:
- To enhance bi- and multilateral international cooperation between EU-EaP and EaP-EaP countries in line with existing border management concepts
- To improve national inter-agency cooperation in the participating countries in line with existing border management concepts
- To improve training programme in the national migration/law enforcement training institutions in the EaP countries