As part of the “Demand Analysis & Forecasting for Border control Units and Policymakers” work carried out within the CRiTERIA project, the University of Malta, the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board, and the L3S Research Centre hosted a series of end-user workshops in November and December.
The sessions were organized to collect information from key stakeholder groups at the immigration police authorities in Estonia, Malta, Sweden, Croatia, and Romania on the challenges and information demands in the risk analysis field from their respective countries. In addition, participants were asked to provide feedback on their expectations for a new system to be developed as part of the project.
The workshops attracted many attendees, who provided invaluable feedback and insights, which will in turn greatly contribute to the CRiTERIA project’s work of designing the novel risk and vulnerability analysis framework for border agencies. It was noted that the expectations expressed by representatives of immigration police authorities from different countries shared many similarities. The interest in better technical solutions was widely shared among the end-users. The wish list for a new system included the most needed features, such as improved information exchange, automated open-source searches and information provision including risk indicators.
We would like to thank the workshop participants from the immigration police authorities in Estonia, Malta, Sweden, Croatia, and Romania, for their time and contributions.
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About CRiTERIA
CRiTERIA – Comprehensive data-driven Risk and Threat Assessment Methods for the Early and Reliable Identification, Validation and Analysis of migration-related risks – seeks to strengthen and expand existing risk analysis methods, by introducing novel approaches, such as identifying risk factors from qualitative evidence (e.g. narrative analysis), building composite indicators (e.g. using sentiment indicators to predict behaviour), incorporating risk interaction and risk cascading assessments and consolidating the human security and human rights dimensions of border security. CRiTERIA has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation action program under grant agreement No 101021866.
