Horizon Border Security: Age Assessment Reliability
Funds a €1.33M project, run with border and coast guard authorities, that compares how reliable different ways of estimating a young migrant's age really are.
Every year, unaccompanied children and young people arrive at EU borders without papers that prove who they are or how old they are. Their assessed age decides where they're housed, what protection and services they get, and whether they go through the system as a child or an adult. Age assessment also matters for identifying trafficking victims and for law enforcement investigations that protect …
Analysing and comparing the reliability of methods used to assess the age of unaccompanied minors and young migrants at EU borders — interview-based, psychological, medical (X-ray, CT, dental, DNA methylation) and image- or AI-based approaches — for scientific accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and risk to fundamental rights. The action does not build a new age-assessment method or technology: it produces EU-wide, evidence-based comparisons and recommendations, done together with Border and Coast Guard Authorities and drawing on existing EUAA, European Migration Network and national research.
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