"The EUReKA Consortium, which is financed by the European Union (GA826666) and coordinated by the Centro Studi e Ricerche IDOS, interviewed its stakeholders from various European countries - via a questionnaire and then through custom-tailored focus groups – on the nature and cause of the difficulties encountered by EU citizens on mobility. A common factor clearly emerged: surprisingly, it’s not so much an issue about legislative or procedural issues, as much as a problem related to the access to essential information on citizens’ rights and the procedures to follow.”
On “Agenda Digitale,” Antonio Ricci, a researcher at the Centro studi e ricerche Idos, describes the tools developed by the EUReKa Consortium.
“The interested parties suggested a range of recommendations that naturally led to the use of digital platforms. In fact, stakeholders called for greater interactivity, information visibility, and universal and custom-tailored access to allow users to pragmatically select useful, reliable and up-to-date information, as well as evaluate its quality. Moreover, the information should be available even in the languages of newcomers, as there is no obligation for EU citizens residing abroad to learn the language of the state in which they live.”
Digital Citizenship is Key to EU Mobility: Tools for Orientation
Free circulation within the EU is not always a simple process and issues are not so much related to legislative or procedural issues, as much as a problem related to the access to essential information on citizens’ rights and the procedures to follow.
By Antonio Ricci
Agenda Digitale, Oct. 6, 2021
Project EUReKA - A Key Access to EU Rights is funded by the European Rights, Equality and Citizenship – REC Programme (GA826666). The project is coordinated by Centro Studi e Ricerche Idos. The EU Mobile Citizens Go Digital handbook, the portal and the Key4mobility app were produced by the partnership, which includes Italian partners (ACLI Italia and Patronato ACLI, Fondazione Mondo Digitale, ANCI Lazio), German partners (acli e.V., the ACLI office in Germany), Romanian partners (Institutul European din Romania, Novapolis, Cartel ALFA), Croatian partners (Zagreb Grad), and French and Portuguese partners (Tandem Plus).
