The European Asylum Curriculum (EAC) is for the moment the biggest practical cooperation EU project in the field of asylum and is an important tool to reach a more harmonized asylum procedure within

Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...

. The EAC is an

EU Member State The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership. They have agreed by the treaties to share their o ...

initiative intending to enhance the capacity and quality of the European asylum process as well as to strengthen practical cooperation among the European asylum/

immigration Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as Permanent residency, permanent residents. Commuting, Commuter ...

systems. With the motto "Knowledge and skills for protection in Europe" the cooperation between the Odysseus Academic Network and several EU member states' Immigration Services creates a European Asylum Curriculum, which provides common

vocational training Vocational education is education that prepares people for a Skilled worker, skilled craft. Vocational education can also be seen as that type of education given to an individual to prepare that individual to be gainfully employed or self em ...

for employees of the Immigration and Asylum Services in Europe.

References

Immigration to Europe Right of asylum in the European Union {{EU-stub

See also

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