Reliability of age assessment methods in the context of security and border management

Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following expected outcomes: Improved protection of minors, including by more reliable age assessments and by minimising the use of intrusive age assessment methods; Improved adaptation, preparedness and cooperation of authorities in the fight against human trafficking; Expanded European-based knowledge on reliability, accuracy and effectiveness of age assessment methods. Scope: Many unaccompanied children and young persons arriving at the external EU borders and seeking asylum, lack official documents showing their identity and age. Age assessment methods are important as they contribute to the determination of, for example, where an individual will be initially housed and what services, supports, and legal processes they will receive to ensure protection and, if applicable, child protection. In other cases, minors are victim of trafficking of human beings (THB) criminal activities, either across the EU external borders, or within the EU borders. In other cases again, age assessment methods are necessary for law enforcement investigations on protecting children, forensic investigation, and/or the identification of victims. No age assessment method can offer a 100% reliability. Different approaches have different sensitivity and specificity, and different sample sizes and representativeness, and some approaches are based on a non-European knowledge base. Furthermore, there is considerable varia…bron

• Minstens 2 Border of Coast Guard Authorities uit minstens 2 verschillende EU-lidstaten of Geassocieerde Landen moeten als begunstigden betrokken zijn
• Applicanten moeten de tabel 'Information about security practitioners' in het aanvraagformulier invullen met alle gevraagde informatie
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• Evaluatie en toekenning volgens criteria in Annex D en F van de Work Programme General Annexes

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