Due to cross border migration in the European Union, an increase in the number of foreigners without valid identification documents could be noticed in many European countries. This development led to an increasing ask for forensic age estimation of the living. During the „10th Lübeck Talk of German Forensic Doctors“ a superregional analysis of the present state of the forensic age diagnistics took place. On this congress the foundation of a study group containing forensic doctors, dentists, radiologists and anthropologists was proposed to develop guidelines to support expert opinion with the goal to harmonize different approaches concerning expert opinions and to assure the quality of the expert opinions. The interdisciplinary „Study Group on Forensic Age Diagnostics“ was constituted on March the 10th in the year 2000 in Berlin.

At the foundation meeting it was concluded, that age diagnostics of corpses and skeletons also belongs to the tasks of the study group.

Up to now the study group has 123 members that come from Germany, Austria, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United States of America, Switzerland, Spain, Azerbaidjan, Norway, Danmark, Israel, Portugal, Greece and Italy.