This project aims to provide direct support to both refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants and the agencies and volunteers who support them. Compass will tackle the basic language problems immediately faced by arriving migrants

Compass will use innovative technology to provide a multiway translation of keywords and phrases covering the major issues as defined by both refugees and support agencies. The platform will be free, open access and easily transferable to support agencies to build on and expand.

Language support will be migrant centered and highly relevant - the vocabulary will cover the key issues migrants face, whereas existing language tools tend to be aimed at students, tourists, and business people.

The language content will cover the 6 most widely spoken migrant languages (Arabic, Persian (Dair/Farsi) Pashto, Kurdish, Albanian) and the 7 most relevant EU languages (German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Turkish). 

The key results will be:

 

A mobile technology (and PC) solution to provide easily accessible language support to a transient population.

The project expects to easily achieve 2000 refugee/ migrant users.

200 refugees/migrants will be involved in the testing of materials and will have early access to the site.

 

The key target market is people in receiving countries who deal with or assist migrants: public officials - police, immigration, social services and hospitals.