Contributors of the EAC training Curriculum

GDISC represents the European immigration services

The EAC program is organised under the auspices of the General Directors’ Immigration Services Conference (GDISC), an organisation that represents the 33 General Directors of the European immigration services with the main aim of enhancing and enabling practical cooperation between authorities in the field of migration and asylum.

Experts on asylum and didactics in the development of the modules

Highly qualified asylum experts from more than 15 different GDISC countries have been involved in the development of the 13 training modules mentioned in the EAC Curriculum. These experts have been supported by a Methods team. The methods team consist of the Dutch KLC, Knowledge and Learning Centre, a division within the Dutch IND, who have supported the asylum experts with didactics advises. The other part of the Methods team is the CTE (Centre des Technologies au service de l’Enseignement) from the Université Libre de Bruxelles who have supported the project with expertise in e-learning and other technical questions.

Close cooperation with the European Commission and non-governmental organisations

In this program EAC has also worked closely with the Odysseus Academic Network of university professors, researchers, scholars and NGO´s in order to gain expert knowledge in the theory of European refugee law. Furthermore the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and the International Association for Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ) as well as the European Commission have been regularly invited to participate in the creation of the learning system through the Reference Group. This group contributed to a broader perspective on the issues at hand.

The program has been partly funded by the European Commission.