The Prague Process

This process is a new political process promoting migration partnerships among the participating states of the European Union, the Schengen Area, South Eastern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, in addition to Turkey, which started with a Ministerial Conference in Prague 2009. ICMPD hosts the organisational support team, which provides the organisational and substantial assistance to the leading states, which are the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

Guiding Principles

The guiding principles are defined by the "Building Migration Partnerships" Joint Declaration endorsed at a ministerial level by 49 states at the Prague Ministerial Conference in April 2009.

BMP Knowledge Base: I-Map and Extended Migration Profiles

The established knowledge base of BMP represented by a set of Extended Migration Profiles and visualisation of other relevant information is accessible online at the interactive BMP i-map