COMET: COMplementary pathways network
An interlocking system of legal channels for migration into Europe.
The starting point is the need for international protection – but COMET participants will be viewed through a wider lens in order to be matched to the programme and location best adapted to maximise their potential and eventual contribution to a host society.
COMET partners are seeking through experience and practice to develop a blueprint for Europe; tools and quality standards for matching, pre-departure orientation, reception and post-arrival support; to build capacity for host communities and to deliver 130 new European admission places for participants. Careful monitoring and reflection through dialogue, materials and structured exchange will enable COMET partners to build on lessons learnt and provide a basis for continued advocacy to expand legal migration.
COMET pathways will:
Facilitate enrolment in European universities and schools
Enable safe and legal family reunification
Support new and existing community sponsorship programmes
Expand humanitarian admission
University Corridor, Safe Path to Build a Solid Professional Career
Primitive arrived at the Université Jean Monnet in Saint Etienne (France) though the UNIV’R university corridors programme – University for Refugees, a broad network piloted by UNHCR which, through Forum Réfugiés, is part of the COMET project [...]
Mahyadine and the Story of the Family who Welcomed Him
Mahyadine is 17, he comes from Darfour in Sudan. He has been living with Wanda and her family in Turin, in the North of Italy, for about 2 months, through the project Pagella in Tasca. Pagella in Tasca is one of the programmes participating in the COMET network of legal pathways facilitating a new start for people in need of international protection. Promoted by Intersos and UNHCR, it brings unaccompanied minors to Italy to complete their primary and secondary studies. [...]
Pagella in Tasca – Interview with Elena Rozzi
Pagella in Tasca is one of the programmes participating in the COMET network of legal pathways facilitating a new start for people in need of international protection. [...]
Implementing the pathways
Meeting with relevant Ministries at national level
Deliverables:
formal agreement/MoU in 6 countries
Interviewing, identifying and matching
Deliverables: personal files of potential participants, personal matching files
Visa procedure
Deliverables: Visa printed
Pre-departure orientation
Deliverables: pre-departure orientation attendance record, pre-departure modules
Common post-arrival orientation
Deliverables: 10 thematic meetings for beneficiaries x 4 times, 9 thematic meetings for host countries x 4 times
