Intergovernmental Dialogues and Research

The objective of the Department of Intergovernmental Dialogues and Research is the elaboration, implementation and contribution to long-term strategies to cope with growing migration pressures, including the facilitation of early warning, the combat of root causes, the harmonisation of entry control and the co-ordination of aliens, asylum and refugee policies with a view to making migration management more effective. A further objective is to contribute to the reinforcement of international migration co-operation in order to facilitate the development of regional (European) and global concepts and systems for more manageable migration.

As of June 2008 Michael Tschanz, who has more than 20 years of international professional experience, mainly in humanitarian affairs and migration, is Director of the department.