Tea TammistuIntegration and Migration Foundation

1. About the IMP2.0

2. IMP2.0 services

3. Benefits for the IMP2.0 platform users

4. Challenges

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Project full title: “Participatory Immigration Policy Making and Harmonization based on Collaborative Web2.0 Technologies”

Project acronym: ImmigrationPolicy2.0 (IMP2.0)

Duration: September 2010 - September 2013

Pilot countries: Estonia (Integration and Migration Foundation), Germany (European Forum for Migration Studies), Greece (University of Piraeus) & Italy (Municipality of Forli)

Project & technical managers: Atos, University of Piraeus, SingularLogic S.A & BOC

Funding: “Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme” (CIP)

(7th Framework Programme of the European Commission)

 

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Differences in immigration policies (procedures, practices) in various member states.

Isolation of legal residents and migration stakeholders from the policy making processes.

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Taking advantage of state-of-the-art ICT technologies, IMP2.0 pilots a range of citizen-centric services that:

•Facilitate the participation of citizens in the migration policy development process.

•Boost the harmonization of migration policies and actions across the EU countries.

•Empower and enable legal immigrants participation in the policy making process.

To offer legal immigrants and migration stakeholders in the domain of migration the possibility to contribute their knowledge and experience to national as well as European migration policy making and realization.

To enhance current efforts of migration policy harmonization at European level.

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IMP2.0 is a policy driven, user centric project.

IMP2.0 concentrates on helping policy makers to harmonize employment related migration policies and providing collaborative services to legal residents.

IMP2.0 will focus on the migration issues related to employment civil status documents (work permits, reunification documents, etc), practices, directives, procedures.

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Collecting and analyzing requirements for the IMP2.0 services from all the users.

Creating IMP2.0 services.

Piloting the services in Greece, Italy, Germany and Estonia.

Evaluating the pilots.

Producing best practices and blueprints.

Evolving business plans.

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Legal residents

Stakeholders

Experts, politicians, policy-makers, public administrators

1st & 2nd generation immigrants, their representative organisations and

groups

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Legal residents

Acquire Information

Evaluate Proposals

Provide Feedback

Record / Imprint their Opinions

Articulate Ideas /Problems /

Anticipations

Participate in the shaping of

policies

Stakeholders

Post Policies and Procedures

Model Policies and Procedures

Analyze Policies and Procedures

Harmonize Policies and Procedures

Report their skills

Monitor of labour migration

Generate new collaboration

channels

BuildSynergies

BuildStandardized

formats

Incorporate migrants in labour markets

Government Process Modelling & Management

Open Surveys Support

Knowledge Harvesting & Content Extraction

Information Asset Management

Migration Policy Synchronization & Homogenization

Users Requirements Services

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Information Asset Management Services

LegalResidents

Politicians

Public Administrators

PolicyMakers

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Knowledge Harvesting & Content Extraction Services

Legal Residents

Politicians

Public Administrators

PolicyMakers

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Open Survey Support Services

Legal Residents

Politicians

Public Administrators

PolicyMakers

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Governmental Process Modelling & Management Services

Legal Residents

Politicians

Public Administrators

PolicyMakers

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Policy Synchronization & Homogenization Services

Legal Residents

Politicians

Public Administrators

PolicyMakers

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Benefits for the legal residents:

- getting information;

- a possibility to participate.

Benefits for the stakeholders:

- getting information;

- a possibility to participate;

- tools for monitoring national migration policies, building harmonized EU policies, etc.

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Creating a user-friendly and reliable platform

Motivating users to use the platform

Sustainability of the platform

Cooperation with initiatives with similar aims

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Web:

www.immigrationpolicy2.eu (information about the project in English)

Platform:

immigrationpolicy2.cs.unipi.gr

(in Estonian, English, Greek, Spanish, Italian and German)

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For more information, please contact:Tea Tammistu

tea.tammistu@meis.ee+372 52 08 901