On 19 September, the Centre for Fundamental Rights will host AFAR - Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees - project researchers and select stakeholders to reflect on key findings and implications of the 4-year project.
The Conference, organised by the Project Lead Professor Cathryn Costello, AFAR Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre, Dr. Mirko Đuković, and AFAR Science Communication Officer Ida Reihani, brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to explore questions of fairness in the use of automation in asylum and migration governance. Sessions will address both theoretical and empirical insights into public perceptions, legal frameworks, rights-based approaches, and algorithmic design.
The two-day conference is the culmination of the 4-year Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (AFAR) collaborative research project hosted at the Centre from 2021 to 2025. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation through its “Challenges for Europe” funding programme, the project includes five other institutions across Europe, aiming to explore the fairness of automation in the highly contested field of migration and asylum governance.
The event is by invitation only; however, the keynote address on 18 September (17:30 – 19:00 CEST) by Dr. Matt Mahmoudi (Cambridge University), which will open the Conference, is open to the public. For more information and registration, please visit this page.
The programme for this workshop is available here.
