Rese­arch services

ACCORD provides indi­vi­dual rese­arch on human rights, poli­tical and huma­ni­ta­rian situa­tion in coun­tries of origin of asylum seekers.

The rese­arch services are open to asylum lawyers, refugee coun­sels as well as persons deci­ding on claims for asylum and other forms of inter­na­tional protec­tion in Austria and selected other coun­tries.

The results of rese­arch conducted by ACCORD can be found on ecoi.​net by clicking the follo­wing links:

• reports
• query responses
• all ACCORD products

For ques­tions about our reserach services please write us at accord(at)redcross.at.

Online Infor­ma­tion System on Country Condi­tions

www.​ecoi.​net is an online country of origin infor­ma­tion system acces­sible publicly and free of cost. ecoi.​net aims to contri­bute to fair and efficient refugee status deter­mi­na­tion proce­dures by secu­ring easy and fast access to high-quality and up-to-date country of origin infor­ma­tion (COI) for all actors involved in asylum cases.

ecoi.​net gathers and processes publicly available country of origin infor­ma­tion with a focus on the needs of asylum lawyers, refugee coun­sels and persons deci­ding on claims for asylum and other forms of inter­na­tional protec­tion.

ecoi.​net is committed to an impar­tial infor­ma­tion policy and to the objec­tive and neutral presen­ta­tion of country of origin infor­ma­tion.

ecoi.​net is main­tained by ACCORD in coope­ra­tion with the Infor­ma­ti­ons­ver­bund Asyl & Migra­tion (Germany). The offi­cial COI data­base of the Austrian Federal Asylum Agency, www.​sta​aten​doku​ment​atio​n.​at, is based on ecoi.​net.

COI Trai­ning

High quality COI is a prere­qui­site for fair and efficient proce­dures for inter­na­tional protec­tion. The know­ledge and under­stan­ding of quality stan­dards and prac­tical rese­arch skills form the main content of COI trai­ning.

ACCORD provides COI trai­ning to eligi­bi­lity offi­cers, judges, lawyers, legal coun­sels and law students.

Trai­ning sessions are based on the trai­ning manual (available for down­load in multiple languages, see down­load area on the right) or the COI Module of the European Asylum Curri­culum.

COI Trai­ning pres­ents back­ground infor­ma­tion and prac­tical exer­cises enab­ling persons working with COI to:

•     under­stand basic princi­ples of the refugee status deter­mi­na­tion (RSD) proce­dure;
•     under­stand the role of COI in the context of RSD;
•     apply quality stan­dards in COI rese­arch;
•     iden­tify and select rele­vant and reliable sources and infor­ma­tion;
•     conduct efficient and crea­tive rese­arch; and
•     admi­nis­trate and docu­ment rese­arch results.

For more infor­ma­tion on COI trai­ning please visit www.​coi-​training.​net.