Wednesday 6 April
12:00 - 02:00 p.m. | Registration of participants and welcome lunch
02:00 - 02:30 p.m. | Opening statements
- Dimitris Avramopoulos, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship
- Georges Dassis, President of the European Economic and Social Committee
- Markku Markkula, President of the Committee of the Regions
02:30 - 03:00 p.m. | Participatory workshops – Introduction and explanation of working method
03:00 - 05:30 p.m. | Participatory workshops – Good practices, challenges and solutions
A) Low and medium skilled migration: specific challenges in this sector in particular as regards domestic and care work
B) Undeclared work and labour exploitation of migrants
C) Access to the labour market and integration of third-country nationals, including asylum seekers and refugees
D) The role of the local level in the effective integration of third-country nationals, including asylum seekers and refugees
05:30 - 06:00 p.m. | Presentation of candidates for the election of two European Migration Forum Bureau members representing civil society organisations
06:00 - 07:30 p.m. | Cocktail reception
Thursday 7 April
09:30 - 10:00 a.m. | Election of two Bureau members representing civil society organisations
10:00 - 10:45 a.m. | Reporting from previous day's workshops
10:45 - 11:15 a.m. | The floor is yours! – on the basis of the results of workshops A to D of 6 April, participants suggest topics for follow-up workshops
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | The floor is yours! – round 1
12:15 - 01:45 p.m. | Buffet lunch
01:45 - 02:45 p.m. | The floor is yours! – round 2
02:45 - 03:00 p.m. | Break / Change of rooms
03:00 - 04:00 p.m. | Reporting from the follow-up workshops (The floor is yours! session)
04:00 - 06:00 p.m. | Panel debate chaired by Belinda Pyke, Director, Migration and Mobility, DG Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission
- Matthias Ruete, Director-General for Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission
- Claude Moraes, Chair of the LIBE Committee, European Parliament
- Roel Gans, Director for International Affairs, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment - on behalf of the Dutch Presidency of the Council of the EU
- Dimitris Kalogeropoulos, Member of the Committee of the Regions, Rapporteur of the opinion on the New European Agenda for Integration
- Cristian Pîrvulescu, President of the Immigration and Integration Permanent Study Group of the European Economic and Social Committee
06:00 p.m. | Networking drink