Frontex has developed this manual to promote a shared understanding of child protection and build cross-border cooperation in this field among Member States’ border guard agencies and third countries. With it, we aim to enhance the awareness and improve the professional skills of border guards in the area of child protection. Border guards should understand the concept of child protection and be able to apply the relevant standards to their everyday work. This comprehensive and operational manual builds on best practices and real-life-based case studies. It results from a joint effort that has drawn on the knowledge and expertise of a multidisciplinary team of experts from EU Member States, EU agencies, third countries and international and non-governmental organisations. 

Contact: HoU.TRU@frontex.europa.eu

Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/PRJ36/PRJ-2018-00009/Documents/40%20Deliverables/Project%20Components/VEGA/Training%20handbooks/Frontex%20Training%20on%20the%20Protection%20of%20Children%20at%20the%20Border.pdf#search=Frontex%20course%20manual%20on%20the%20protection%20of%20children%20at%20the%20borders

This manual was drafted in accordance with international and European human rights standards. The manual takes into consideration the complexity of the duties performed by officials at the EU’s borders. In this respect, great care was taken to represent as closely as possible the everyday reality of officers. The goal of the course manual is to provide guidance to training institutions willing to implement a Sectoral Qualifications Framework-based programme for border-related fundamental rights trainers. With this manual Frontex entrusts border guard training institutions and border guard trainers with the implementation of the standards set and consequently with the dissemination and promotion of fundamental rights within the European border guard community.

Contact: HoU.TRU@frontex.europa.eu

Link: Course manual for fundamental rights trainers_web.pdf (europa.eu) 

This handbook has been created to develop competencies for national experts involved in designing training programmes in the border guard field. It is a key enabler for course designers in national institutions, which ensures that courses are designed in line with Bologna/Copenhagen (hereinafter referred to as B/C) Principles using the SQF for Border Guarding (hereinafter referred to as SQF for BG). This handbook is aligned with the Frontex aims of ensuring consistency of standards, harmonisation and interoperability across Europe. It also addresses the Frontex educational aim to promote a European Border Guard culture with high standards on fundamental rights, ethics and leadership. 

The SQF is a framework of high-level learning outcomes that reflects all of the learning, for all border guard activities, across the EU. As an overarching frame of reference, the SQF encompasses all levels of qualifications acquired in vocational and academic education and training in the border guard field. It’s an instrument for reviewing training and for quality assurance that will lead to the development of ‘accreditable’ courses. The SQF is the platform for a coherent strategy that links all training products, from the common standards for basic, mid-level and high-level border guard training, to specialised and further training courses.

Contact: HoU.TRU@frontex.europa.eu

Link: https://myfx.frontex.europa.eu/cases/DMS4/DMS-00005/PRRequests/PR-2023-1384/1.Launch/Final%20TD/Appendix%208%20Sectoral%20Qualifications%20Framework%20%20for%20Border%20Guarding%20vol%20I.pdf#search=Sectoral%20Qualifications%20Framework%20for%20Border%20Guarding%2E%20Setting%20standards%20for%20training%20excellence%20%282013%29