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Mandate (Reg. 168/2007)

Objective: to provide institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Community and its Member States, when implementing Community law, with relevant assistance and expertise

Tasks:

Conducting policy driven and policy relevant research and analysis

Communicating the results and raising awareness

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Victims of crime and access to justice;
Equality and discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation, or on the grounds of nationality;
Information society and, in particular, respect for private life and protection of personal data;
Judicial cooperation, except in criminal matters;
Migration, borders, asylum and integration of refugees and migrants;
Racism, xenophobia and related intolerance;
Rights of the child;
Integration and social inclusion of Roma.

Multi-annual Framework: areas of work 2018-2022

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Data collection and in-house analysis

FRANET data collection & research network (correspondents EU28 + FYROM)

28 National Focal Points for desk research and some qualitative fieldwork

Quantitative large-scale survey based research

Typically with hard-to-survey and elusive populations, such as Roma or immigrants
Fieldwork data collection contracted out
Questionnaire design, fieldwork oversight, data analysis and report drafting in-house

Qualitative interview & focus group based research

Typically with hard-to-sample and survey groups, e.g. irregular migrants, children, etc.
Fieldwork data collection contracted out, mostly to FRANET
Interview schedules, fieldwork oversight, data analysis and report drafting in-house

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Project

Data Collection

n-2 planning

Stakeholder consultation

PROCUREMENT

Inception meeting

Evaluation

Contracting

52 days

Draft deliverables

Final

deliverables

FRA products

Monitoring, feedback to contractors, networking

Revision

DISSEMINATION

Evidence based assistance & expertise

FRA Quality Control

Scientific Committee
Internal mechanisms

Kick off

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Operational engagement - asylum & migration

Responding to the current refugee emergency
In cooperation/coordination with COM, EASO, FRONTEX, eu-LISA
Hotspots: training and development of SOPs
Weekly (2016) and monthly (2017) reports
Technical reports, e.g. on fingerprinting, guardianship, etc.

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Facilitating engagement with Member States