European Economic
and Social Committee
Programme
6th meeting of the EUROPEAN MIGRATION FORUM
“From pandemic to recovery: challenges and best practices in migration management”
Virtual event via Swapcard
27-28 October 2021
#EUMigrationForum
Draft Agenda - Wednesday 27 October
08.30 a.m. - 09.00 a.m. | Connecting to the Swapcard platform
09.00 a.m. - 09.30 a.m. | Opening statements
Moderator: Ali Al-Jaberi
- Carlos Trindade, Member of the European Migration Forum Bureau, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee
- Magdalena Jagiello, Deputy Head of Unit “Legal pathways and Integration”, Directorate-General for Home Affairs, European Commission
09.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Introduction to the Forum - Migrants’ role in the recovery of our economies and societies
Moderator: Anila Noor, Managing Director, New Women Connectors, Member of the Commission expert group on the views of migrants
- Tülay Ates-Brunner, Managing Director, Tür an Tür Integrationsprojekte gGmbH, Member of the Commission expert group on the views of migrants
- Juliana Santos Wahlgren, Senior Advocacy Officer - Acting Director ENAR, Member of the Commission expert group on the views of migrants
- Maarten van Ooijen, Eurocities Social Affairs Chair, Deputy mayor of Utrecht
Q & A session
10.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Coffee break
10.45 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Parallel workshops
- Workshop 1 - Exchanging on legal pathways to protection and in particular community sponsorships
- Workshop 2 - The contribution of migrants towards recovery
- Workshop 3 - Access to education for migrant children
- Workshop 4 - Addressing the digital divide and digital disadvantage of migrants
12.30 p.m. - 01.30 p.m. | Lunch break
01.30 p.m. - 01.55 p.m. | Keynote speeches
Moderator: Laurenţiu Plosceanu, President of the European Economic and Social Committee’s Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship
- Christa Schweng, President of the European Economic and Social Committee
- Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs
01.55 p.m. - 02.15 p.m. | Brief reporting of the outcome of the workshops' discussion
02.15 p.m. - 02.45 p.m. | Presentation of the candidates for the Forum Bureau
Moderator: Rossella Nicoletti, Member of the Forum Bureau
Starting with remarks by the outgoing Bureau members Fernando Biague and Adem Kumcu
Info on how and when the participants can vote
02.45 p.m. - 03.00 p.m. | Wrap up of the first day and info on the second day
Draft Agenda - Thursday 28 October
08.30 a.m. - 09.00 a.m. | Connecting to the Swapcard platform
09.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. | Interactive debate
Moderator: Ali Al-Jaberi
- Johannes Luchner, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for Home Affairs, European Commission
- Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Member of European Parliament, Chair of the LIBE Committee
- Nataša Potočnik, General Director, Directorate for Migration, Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia
- Vincenzo Bianco, Vice-Chair of the Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs (CIVEX), Committee of Regions
Q & A session
10.00 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. | Announcement of the results of the Forum Bureau elections
Moderator: Rossella Nicoletti, Member of the Forum Bureau
10.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Coffee break
10.30 a.m. - 10.40 a.m. | Final remarks
- Marie Paule D. E. N'Guessan, Member of the European Migration Forum Bureau
- Paul Soete, President of the European Economic and Social Committee’s Permanent Study Group on Immigration and Integration
10.40 a.m. - 11.45 a.m. | The floor is yours – participants suggest further topics to be discussed in parallel break-out rooms
11.45 a.m. - 12.45 a.m. | Marketplace of projects/best practices and Networking
Participants are invited to visit virtual booths at the Marketplace. They can reach out to the organisers of the virtual booths and to schedule a virtual meeting individually/in a group via networking tool.
Networking will be open until 16:00.
Languages: The workshops and the session “The floor is yours’’ are held in English. All other sessions are interpreted from/into EN, FR, DE, ES, PT and IT