EU Funds for integration - How can we better support people with a migrant background?
24 January 2018 - Brussels
Agenda
01.30 p.m. – 02.30 p.m. Registration
02.30 p.m. – 03.00 p.m. Opening remarks
Moderator: Cristian Pîrvulescu, President of the EESC Permanent Study Group on Immigration and Integration
- Corina Creţu, European Commissioner for Regional Policy
- Marianne Thyssen, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility (video message)
- Georges Dassis, President of the European Economic and Social Committee
03.00 p.m. – 03.15 p.m. Launch of the toolkit
- Wallis Goelen Vandebrock, Head of Unit, Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy
03.15 p.m. – 04.00 p.m. Panel 1: Synergies between policies and EU funds
Moderator: Irini Pari, Member of the Employers Group, EESC
- Keynote speaker: Grzegorz Galewski, Programme Manager - EU policies, Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs
- Respondent 1: Marie-Anne Paraskevas, Senior Policy Expert, Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
- Respondent 2: Pauliina Eskola, Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of the Interior, Finland
Open floor discussion
04.00 p.m. – 04.30 p.m. Coffee break
04.30 p.m. – 05.15 p.m. Panel 2: Breaking the social and spatial isolation of people with a migrant background
Moderator: José Antonio Moreno Diaz, Member of the Workers Group, EESC
- Keynote speaker: Thomas Huddleston, Programme Director Migration and Integration, Migration Policy Group
- Respondent 1: Sabrina Le Noach, Migration Officer, Red Cross EU Office
- Respondent 2: Quentin Richard, First Officer (Deputy Director), ERDF Unit, Brussels-Capital Region
Open floor discussion
05.15 p.m. – 05.30 p.m. Closing remarks
Interpretation requested from EN, FR, DE, IT, ES, EL, PT, HU and RO into EN, FR, DE, IT, ES