European Country of Origin Information Network

By securing easy and fast access to high-quality and up-to-date country of origin information for all actors involved in asylum cases, ecoi.net contributes to a fair, effective and efficient refugee status determination procedure.

1,229 Documents since 20 September 2018

335,034 Documents in total

160 sources covered on a regular basis

169 Countries

Blog News

18 October 2018

The October 2018 issue of The Researcher

The Researcher is published two times a year by the Refugee Documentation Centre (RDC) in Ireland. It is a publication which combines academic papers, summaries of caselaw, guides to new legislation, reports of conferences, articles on RDC services and items of country of origin information. 

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9 October 2018

Research Guide on health care reports published by EASO

The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) published a research guide used for the production of medical country of origin information fact sheets.

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28 September 2018

Symposium on the limits of COI research

The Austrian Federal Administrative Court and ACCORD organised a symposium in May 2018 to discuss the possibilities and limits of COI research.

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About ecoi.net

How we work
Cover more than 160 sources like the United Nations, international NGOs, media services or government agencies
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What we want
Offer high quality country of origin information for fair and efficient refugee status determination procedures
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Who we are
Cooperating with partners, managed by ACCORD
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ecoi.net is run by the Austrian Red Cross (department ACCORD) in cooperation with Informationsverbund Asyl & Migration. ecoi.net is funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior and Caritas Austria. ecoi.net is supported by ECRE & UNHCR.