EU-wide harmonisation of immigration policies is a long standing and challenging issue, given the need to compromise numerous national immigration policy proposals, practices and procedures towards common, balanced, harmonized and effective EU policies. The challenge stems primarily from the legal, political, technological and societal differences in the various Member States, as well as from the isolation of legal immigrants from the policy making processes and the formulation of balanced migration proposals.

The main objective of ImmigrationPolicy2.0 is to exploit the “wisdom of the crowds” in order to enhance traditional practices for policy-making and harmonisation in the migration domain. ImmigrationPolicy2.0 develops and pilots an interactive web platform based on latest ICT developments (Web2.0, data modelling, ...) for an exchange of experiences and cooperation among experts, staff members of local, regional and national administrations, NGO's and migrants on the implementation of migration policies regarding third country nationals in the EU who migrated for economic purposes (dependent employment, self-employment or entrepreneurship).

ImmigrationPolicy2.0 web platform constitutes a single point of entry to a range of services that aim at enabling and motivating citizens’ participation in the process of migration policy making while at the same time supporting politicians, policy and decision makers to collaboratively provide their contributions towards gaps identification and migration policies modelling and harmonisation.