Programme

Youth inclusion: key to successful migrant integration

Thursday, 20 October 2022


09.30 a.m. - 10.25 a.m. | Registration and Welcome coffee

10.25 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Start of Day 1 - JDE 62

Ali Al-Jaberi, Master of Ceremony

10.30 a.m. - 10.50 a.m. | Opening of the 7th European Migration Forum - JDE62

Moderator: Ali Al-Jaberi

  • Paul Soete, President of the Permanent Group on Immigration and Integration
  • Michael Shotter, Director, Asylum and Migration, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission
  • Mahdiyah Ayub, Young leader, Former Member of the project Football for Unity, Ireland

10.50 a.m. - 12.00 p.m. | Introduction to the Forum: young migrants as actors
of youth inclusion - JDE62

Moderator: Anila Noor, New Women Connectors

  • Seyran Khalili, Project lead, Young Connectors - Women Connectors, Norway
  • Rachel Streefland, Deputy Mayor of Utrecht
  • Catriona Graham, Director, Advocacy and partnerships, World Scout Bureau – European Support Centre
  • Belén Vallina González, founder of Yaran, Spanish NGO

Q&A session

12.00 p.m. - 01.30 p.m. | Lunch break - Atrium 6

01.30 p.m. - 03.00 p.m. | Parallel workshops

  • Workshop 1 - Young migrants’ access to education and training - JDE60
  • Workshop 2 - Specific challenges and measures regarding integration of young refugees - JDE63
  • Workshop 3 - Legal migration: youth mobility, both in the context of education and labour mobility of young people - JDE61
  • Workshop 4 - Advancing participation and engagement of young migrants - Atrium 6

03.00 p.m. - 03.30 p.m. | Coffee break - Outside JDE 62

03.30 p.m. - 03.50 p.m. | Brief reporting of the outcome of the workshops'
discussion - JDE62

03.50 p.m. - 04.50 p.m. | Public attitudes towards migrants - JDE62

Moderator: Michael Palmer, Deputy Head of Communication, Directorate-General for Migration and Home, European Commission

  • Amara Makhoul, Editor in chief, InfoMigrants
  • Fridoon Joinda, Filmmaker, Migratory Birds
  • Luca Barani, Policy officer, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission

Q&A session

04.50 p.m. - 05.40 p.m. | Presentation of the candidates for the Forum
Bureau elections - JDE62

Moderator: Rossella Nicoletti, Member of the Forum Bureau

Insights by Julie Martinaud and Marie Paule D. E. N'Guessan, Members of the Forum Bureau

Info on how and when participants vote

04.50 p.m. - 06.10 p.m. | In parallel - Co-creative space for youth networks - JDE63

Moderator: Ali Al-Jaberi

Young experts will exchange ideas about migration among each other and co-create some recommendations to the Forum.

05.40 p.m. - 08.30 p.m. | Networking village and Networking dinner - Atria 5 & 6

With voting in the Forum Bureau elections (until 19.15)

Live session: World music by MIKSI - Atrium 5

Without speaking the same language the five musicians of Miksi were brought together by notes, an ideal means of communication and the European project Migrants Music Manifesto.
Their repertoire is inspired by traditional Albanian, Kurdish or Syrian pieces rearranged by the group's coordinator.
Five children from Athénée Royal de Bruxelles 2 – a school involved in their project ‘’Day 1 in Europe’’ – will join the show for the song "Moj e bukura more’’.


Youth inclusion: key to successful migrant integration

Friday, 21 October 2022

08.30 a.m. - 09.30 a.m. | Registration and Welcome coffee

09.30 a.m. - 09.45 a.m. | Start of Day 2 and Announcement of results
of the Forum Bureau elections - JDE 62

Moderator: Rossella Nicoletti, Member of the Forum Bureau

09.45 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. | Highlights from the youth co-creative space - JDE62

10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. | Keynote talk - JDE62

Moderator: Ali Al-Jaberi

  • Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs
  • Christa Schweng, President of the European Economic and Social Committee

Q&A session

11.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. | Coffee break - Outside JDE62

11.30 a.m. - 01.00 p.m. | The floor is yours - Atrium 5

Participants suggest further topics to be discussed in parallel break-out rooms

01.00 a.m. - 02.30 a.m. | Lunch break - Atrium 6

02.30 p.m. - 04.00 p.m. | Interactive debate - JDE62

Moderator: Ali Al-Jaberi

  • Beate Gminder, Deputy Director-General or Migration & Home Affairs, European Commission
  • Giuseppe Varacalli, member of the Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs, European Committee of the Regions
  • Michael McLoughlin, Member of the EESC Coordination Group for the European Year of Youth, Youth Work Ireland
  • David Vondrácek, The Czech Presidency

Q&A session

04.00 p.m. - 04.05 p.m. | Closing session - JDE62

 


The workshops and the session "The floor is yours" are held in English. All other sessions are interpreted from/into EN, FR, ES, PT and IT

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