EU governmental organisations are seeking effective ways of monitoring, tracing and auditing movement and employment of illegal immigrants, while at the same time facilitating legal immigrants to move freely or seek employment within the EU. However, EU countries have significant organisational legal, technological, societal and political differences in the way they adopt migration policies, which is a serious setback to the effective monitoring and management of immigration flows.
ImmigrationPolicy2.0 will take advantage of state-of-the-art ICT technologies, Business Process Modelling, the semantics web and policy models in order to pilot a range of citizen-centric services, which facilitate the participation of citizens in the migration policy development process, while at the same time boosting the harmonization of migration policies and actions across EU countries. Hence, the project will provide a motivating and user-friendly environment empowering citizens participation in the policy making process. Accordingly the project will pilot services targeting both citizens and decision makers, in particular:
• Empower public administrators, politicians and decision makers to work and collaborate towards a harmonized E.U. migration policy.
• Facilitate societal groups of immigrants or individual legal immigrants in order to be able to get informed and evaluate various migration-related proposals and policies, while also expressing their feelings and opinions about the policies under development.