Deadline: 16-Sep-25
The European Commission is seeking proposals for its Measures to Support Member States in the Field of Protection of Children in Migration Program.
Objectives
- The objective of the topic is to stimulate and support capacity building and the sharing of experience among national authorities and other stakeholders on how to conduct age assessment in line with the multi-disciplinary approach required by Article 25 of the Asylum Procedures Regulation (2024/1348). (’APR’).
Funding Information
- Grant amount: EUR 6 000 000
Expected Outcomes
- Proposals should present methodologies and metrics as appropriate for measuring progress with significance towards the following outcomes:
- Increased know-how on non-invasive age assessment methods and capacity to use these methods for conducting multidisciplinary age assessment;
- Increased availability and access to good practices, guidance, relevant workflows and/or learning tools for determining authorities and professionals conducting age assessment about non-invasive age assessment methods;
- Reinforced offer of trainings, exchange programs, study visits and other relevant activities for supporting the capacity to conduct multidisciplinary age assessment;
- Increased availability of practical non-invasive age assessment tools for determining authorities and professionals carrying out age assessment;
- Facilitated exchange of good practices and know-how on Multidisciplinary age assessment.
Eligible Activities
- Proposals should include activities aimed at increasing the capacity and knowledge amongst relevant actors, such as the determining authorities within the meaning of the APR, but also other bodies and professionals conducting age assessments and otherwise being involved in any way in the age assessment process (for example, guardianship services, insofar as guardians must assist the persons during the age assessment procedure):
- Capacity building for offering training to multidisciplinary teams combining professionals from various fields (e. g psychologists, education or child protection specialists, social workers, cultural mediators, paediatricians etc.) who will be tasked to carry out multi-disciplinary age assessment under the new requirements of the Asylum Procedure Regulation 2024/1348.
- Developing training modules and/or (physical presence or online) knowledgesharing platforms for professionals conducting age assessment under the multidisciplinary method.
- Study visits and exchange programs for allowing peer to peer learning of national authorities or other entities involved in applying the multi-disciplinary age assessment method;
- Developing recommendations, guidance, SOPs and/or workflows for national authorities and professionals responsible for applying the multi-disciplinary age assessment method that are consistent with the EUAA guidelines;
- Developing practical non-invasive age assessment tools, including introducing new (digital) tools that could be used in age determination process, while maintaining hight ethical standards (e.g age-assessment checklists, interview techniques tailored to minors, tools for cognitive testing or developmental assessments etc).
- Conferences/workshops/seminars/thematic meetings to advance the knowledge about the multidisciplinary age assessment methodology or relevant methods, and to facilitate communication between different stakeholders involved in age assessment.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)), excluding Denmark
- non-EU countries:
- countries associated to the AMIF (associated countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
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