VEGA Handbook at land borders include best practices and recommendations provided by MS and other experts aimed at providing border guards with practical information and guidelines to enhance the identification and subsequent protection of children at risk of being trafficked or smuggled. The handbook also provide practical guidelines on how to interact with children during border checks. 

Contact: thb@frontex.europa.eu 

Link: VEGA Handbook: Children at land borders (europa.eu)

VEGA Handbook at air borders include best practices and recommendations provided by MS and other experts aimed at providing border guards with practical information and guidelines to enhance the identification and subsequent protection of children at risk of being trafficked or smuggled. The handbook also provide practical guidelines on how to interact with children during border checks. 

Contact: thb@frontex.europa.eu 

Link: VEGA Handbook: VEGA_Children_Handbook.pdf (europa.eu)

This manual presents a comprehensive foresight methodology tailor-made to Frontex’s needs and specificities. It provides Frontex with the practical knowledge required to conduct Technology Foresight (TF) studies in key technological fields and research areas. In Frontex, TF is understood as a research-driven process specifically designed for the technological assessment and identification of key future technologies for a particular subject. Unlike forecasting, TF focuses on assessing the current state of technology and identifying a wide range of plausible future consequences of technological development. Results are presented as linked to scenarios for the future.

Link: https://www.frontex.europa.eu/assets/Publications/Research/Technology_Foresight_on_Biometrics_for_the_Future_of_Travel_Annex_I.pdf

This study examines how border security research is set up, managed and operationalised in and beyond Europe.

Link: https://prd.frontex.europa.eu/wp-content/uploads/study-from-lab-to-field-challenges-and-oportunities-for-operationalizing-border-security-research.pdf

The objective of the RVS is to provide a list of recommended vaccinations as a prevention measure for particular communicable diseases, specifically designed for the individual and community protection of personnel assigned to Frontex coordinated operational activities.  A secondary objective of the survey was to raise awareness on both the need of considering vaccinations as a useful tool to improve the OSH of all personnel deployed by Frontex via national partner authorities, and on the importance of recommendations/procedures for such personnel.

Contact: OSH@frontex.europa.eu