The course has a dual objective. First it focuses on those who do not have a right to stay and are subject to return procedures. Second, it explains the policy considerations and legal concepts related to asylum law as developed in the EU’s Common European Asylum System (CEAS) Some other aspects of the European Union’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice will also feature in the training. (Schengen, human smuggling, regular migration of third country nationals). The training will explain the challenges of policy formulation and regulation of asylum matters, and it is within this context that the training seeks to specifically address the EU’s failure to react with new rules to the large scale movements of 2015-2016. A look at the New Pact on Migration and Asylum will reveal if it can indeed serve as a new start. The much broader questions about the EU’s future, identity and responsibility will also be addressed.