Practitioners and end-users on Security and borders: realizing the common consular space

DEL 296 Practitioners and end-users on Security and borders: realizing the common consular space’

WP6 Transparency & Accountability

The series of workshops for end-users and practitioners is designed to run until spring 2009. It will bring together researchers, consular community, police and public and private sector anti-fraud personnel working on border management and cross-border crime and security.

It is informed by five objectives:-

To facilitate the transfer of knowledge from research to practitioners and end-users facing the new demands of border management regime change and the creation of a common consular space

To inform and enrich research endeavour based on the collection of empirical evidence from those implementing border management with citizens

To improve mutual understanding of the challenges facing citizens and practitioners in border management

To reflect on the concept of border and accountable border management implemented using the borderless tools of e-government

To augment understanding of the permeability of responsibilities and needs for practitioners working with the civil and criminal issues arising from permeable borders, especially fraud, ID fraud and trafficking

Report on the

CHALLENGE PROGRAMME

eborders Consultative Meeting on European Cross-Border Collaboration

The Embassy of France, London, 22 May 2008

Author: (Prof) Juliet Lodge, Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

We are especially grateful to the Embassy of France for its hospitality in permitting us to convene this meeting at its premises.

This is followed by workshops scheduled for:-

Leeds – autumn 2008

Newcastle – winter 2008

Newcastle – February 2009

London ---- at the request of the cross-border security personnel, we are looking at a further meeting, which we think we can manage within budget.

Hull and Leeds March 2009 – short presentations of Challenge to be made at conferences with regional police and those promoting Safer Internet to boost citizen security and combat cross border child abduction.