Duration: January 2013 – September 2014
The project’s aim was to contribute to strengthening and building synergies within family tracing procedures and methodologies in the EU Member States and enhancing the sustainable reintegration and family support for unaccompanied minors choosing to return voluntarily to their countries of origin. The project was implemented in five countries of destination: Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, as well as in five countries of origin: Afghanistan, Albania, Iraq, Kosovo* and Pakistan.
The project consisted of two phases:
The project was co-financed by the European Return Fund, Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Belgian Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers and the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.
*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).