MICADO

MICADO aims to facilitate the exchange between migrants, public authorities and engaged civic society and ease migrants’ access to regular social systems (housing, education, health care, and labour) and counselling services through attractive digital services. Thus, it will lower the socio-economic effort and expenditure in migrant integration, both for host economies and individuals.

Out-of-the-box, One-fits-all solution

The MICADO solution is an integrated “out-of-the-box” system which provides digital tools for managing the integration of migrants in urban societies across the EU. By exploiting state-of-the-art data technologies, it consolidates and valorises migrant-related data from local, regional, and national sources.

The MICADO project on “Migrant Integration Cockpits and Dashboards” is a 3.5 years Innovation Action, coordinated by Hafencity University Hamburg, with partners from 4 other European countries. The project targets lowering the socio-economic effort and expenditure in migrant integration, both for host economies and individuals. SYNYO is in charge of dissemination and exploitation of project results, thus working closely with other partners on spreading the outcomes to a broad audience. Furthermore, the SYNYO designers are working on the user interface and user experience of the MICADO applications.

MICADO is an interdisciplinary and international project that involves research institutions, public authority agencies and SMEs from Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Austria, whose purpose is to co-develop a MICADO- “one-fits-all”-solution (generic solution) that can be adapted by the local actors to their respective local challenges and manage migration issues with a local solution.

The generic solution will first be piloted in the MICADO-partner cities Hamburg, Bologna, Madrid, and Antwerp, and will then eventually be modified by the local communities. The outcome of the project will empower public authorities and local communities that attend migrants and refugees from their moment of arrival in the EU with more efficient and more effective digital services. It will also support migrants and refugees by enabling essential communication, orientation, and navigation within their new living environments.

In the end, the MICADO solution will be offered on an open-source platform which will be transferable to communities in other European cities.

Links

https://www.micadoproject.eu/

Keywords

Dashboard, cockpits, digital e-governance solution, migrants integration, ICT