ODYSSEUS: An Advanced, Collaborative and Trusted Framework for the Provision of Migration Services

Migration policy making and monitoring constitute critical issues for European countries, given the impact of modern phenomena such as illegal employment on economic growth and future prosperity. The dynamic and complex nature of migration problems demands common approaches and collaborative actions among all stakeholders both at National and European level. Policy and decision makers need to systematically collaborate towards sophisticated approaches that facilitate legal immigrants to be effectively integrated in labor markets and public administration processes. Existing research initiatives and migration-oriented automated tools and services fail to provide a complete, robust and widely available framework for the collaborative development of common pan-European migration policies and the harmonization of processes and documents formats. Identifying these weaknesses as well as the need for enabling and supporting legal immigrants to be informed and provide their valuable feedback, this paper focuses on the description of a web-based communication framework for open collaboration on migration issues. The proposed system, ODYSSEUS, aims at enhancing existing Migration Information Systems by providing an advanced, collaborative and trusted framework for the provision of migration services.