GDISC is an informal network of European national immigration authorities founded in 2004. The member states are Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, and the United Kingdom.

Its overall objective is to improve practical cooperation between the 34 GDISC Members through a variety of different activities (i.e. mini networks, conferences and workshops) and by jointly addressing the ever-changing challenges in the field of asylum and migration. In particular, the network provides a platform for exchanges in areas where no other bilateral or European cooperation format exists.

The thematic areas of GDISC are:

• Communication strategies of asylum and migration authorities
• IT and digitisation processes in authorities
• Legal developments and EU jurisprudence
• Methods, analyses and verification of Prognosis
• Cooperation in the Migration-Security nexus
• Legal Migration processes and challenges

The GDISC Chair represents the network and supervises all GDISC activities. In carrying out its tasks, the Chair is guided by the Steering Group and supported by the Secretariat that is permanently located at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Germany.

The Chair rotates between the 12 members of the Steering Group. The members of the Steering Group are Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The position of the Chair is held by one country for a period of either one year or two years. The rotating principle is based on the historical order of the chairmanships to date and the alphabetical order of the members who have not yet held the Chair. Currently, Poland is holding the Chair.