GAPS project Policy Brief

November 15, 2024admin

Five Shades of Grey: Policy and Practice in Return Migration
Terry Martin – Science-Policy Interface Agency

September 2024

Executive Summary

This policy brief is the result of a meticulous analysis of the key findings in country dossiers (Germany, Greece, Poland, Sweden, and the Netherlands) and the Horizon Europe GAPs project – WP2 Comparative Report 1 on Legal and Policy Infrastructures of Returns in the EU. The country dossiers systematically examine regulations, policies, and statistics on the return and readmission in each country, relying on legislative documents, reports, and other relevant secondary literature. The comprehensive comparative report compares the return policies of these five countries, along with the examination of fundamental statistics, key political developments and legislations at the EU level, and the analysis of the institutional frameworks. The policy brief, a culmination of this thorough analysis, presents critical policy-related insights from the project and provides recommendations.

GAPS

November 4, 2024November 15, 2024admin

http://returnmigration.eu

SPIA is delighted to be a partner in GAPS, an EU-funded (Horizon) research project studying the drivers of return policies as well as barrier and enablers in international cooperation on returns. Exploring disconnects between expectations of return policies and their actual outcomes, GAPS takes a decentered, multi-disciplinary approach that emphasises migrant agency. We are conducting qualitative and quantitative comparative research in 11 countries, including Afghanistan and states in North- and West Africa. In addition to holding workshops and stakeholder panels in these countries, we are producing an interactive data repository on returns, a return cooperation index and policy briefs. SPIA’s contribution to the project centres on communicating its policy-relevant findings.

Link4Skills

November 3, 2024November 15, 2024admin

http://link4skills.eu

SPIA is proud to be a partner in Link4Skills, an EU-funded global research and innovation project helping to address skill shortages in the EU. Aimed at fostering fair skill flows globally, Link4Skills is designed to support decision-makers in their effort to calibrate the mix of policy options available for responding to skill shortages. Specifically, we are weighing the options of re/up skilling of established populations (incl. migrants and inactive women), automation, and migration. We are developing an AI-powered Skill Navigator to assist decision-makers in developing a fair and effective approach to addressing skill needs . SPIA is leading the project’s dissemination and communication efforts.