Programme

Enhancing the role of civil society in implementing the Pact on Migration and Asylum

EESC Jacques Delors building, Rue Belliard 99, 1000 Brussels

28-29 November 2024

9th European Migration Forum

Programme, Day 1 - Thursday, 28 November 2024

08.30 a.m. - 09.30 a.m. | Registration and Welcome coffee (Coffee outside JDE62)

09.35 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Opening: a high-level overview of the Pact on Migration and Asylum - JDE62 

Ali Al-Jaberi, Master of Ceremony

• Ylva Johansson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs 
• Oliver Röpke, President of the European and Economic Committee

Q&A session

10.45 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. | Experience from the ground: testimonial from Greece - JDE62 

• Yonous Muhammadi, Greek Forum of Refugees, Co-founder and Director, Member of the Forum Bureau

11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Implementing the Pact, Parallel Roundtables

Roundtable 1 - Closer links between asylum and return procedures  - JDE51 (5th floor)

• Sub-group 1 – JDE 51
• Sub-group 2 – JDE 60
• Sub-group 3 – JDE 61

Roundtable 2 - The new permanent solidarity mechanism  - JDE62 

• Sub-group 1 – JDE 62
• Sub-group 2 – JDE 53
• Sub-group 3 – JDE 63

Fundamental rights of migrants as a cross-cutting theme, central to all subthemes.

12.45 p.m. - 02.00 p.m. | Lunch break - (Business Card Wall for networking) -
Atrium 6

02.00 p.m. - 03.30 p.m. | Implementing the Pact, Parallel Roundtables

Roundtable 3 - Adequate reception conditions - JDE51 (5th floor)

• Sub-group 1 – JDE 51
• Sub-group 2 – JDE 60
• Sub-group 3 – JDE 61

Roundtable 4 - The Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion 2021-2027  - JDE62 

• Sub-group 1 – JDE 62
• Sub-group 2 – JDE 53
• Sub-group 3 – JDE 63

Fundamental rights of migrants as a cross-cutting theme, central to all subthemes.

03.30 p.m. - 04.00 p.m. | Coffee break - Outside JDE62

04.00 p.m. - 05.15 p.m. | Inspiring stories from the Bureau members  - JDE62 

Moderator: Ali Al-Jaberi

• Anila Noor, New Women Connectors
• Rudi Osman, Union des étudiants exiles

04.00 p.m. - 05.15 p.m. | Presentation of the candidates for the Forum Bureau  - JDE62 

Moderator: Anna Coulibaly, Member of the Forum Bureau

Info on how and when the participants can vote: start of the Forum Bureau Elections

05.15 p.m. - 05.20 p.m. | Wrap up of the first day and information on the second day - JDE62 

05.30 p.m. - 07.30 p.m. | Networking reception - Atrium 6

Voting in the Forum Bureau elections in parallel to the Networking reception

Enhancing the role of civil society in implementing the Pact on Migration and Asylum

9th European Migration Forum

Programme, Day 2 - Friday, 29 November 2024

08.30 a.m. - 09.00 a.m. | Registration and coffee - (Coffee outside JDE62)

09.00 a.m. - 09.15 a.m. | Announcement of the results of the Forum Bureau elections - JDE62 

Moderator: Anna Coulibaly, Member of the Forum Bureau

09.15 a.m. - 10.00 00 a.m. | Fundamental rights of migrants under the Pact - JDE62

• Adriano Silvestri, Head of Migration & Asylum Sector, European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
• Pauline Chaigne, Policy Officer, European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

Q&A session

10.00 a.m. - 11.15 a.m. | The floor is yours - participants suggest further topics to be discussed in parallel break-out rooms - Atrium 6, Foyer 6, JDE60, JDE61 & JDE63

11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | New common approach on returns: the future legislative framework 

• Sub-group 1 – JDE 62
• Sub-group 3 – JDE 51

12.45 p.m. - 02.00 p.m. | Lunch break - Atrium 6

02.00 p.m. - 02.45 p.m. | Plenary Harvest - JDE62

02.45 p.m. - 03.15 p.m. | Concluding session: looking forward - JDE62

• Victoria Hernandez, Counsellor on Labour, Migration and Social Security in the Spanish Permanent Representation
• Luis Cerdán Ortiz-Quintana, Home Affairs Counsellor in the Spanish Permanent Representation
• Dingfen Zhong, Assistant Principal Officer, Department of Justice, Ireland
• Corinna Ullrich, Director, DG HOME
• Cristian Pîrvulescu, President of the EESC Permanent Group on Immigration and Integration

Web streaming: The sessions taking place in the plenary room JDE 62 are web streamed (except roundtable sessions, the parallel sub-groups and "The floor is yours")

Languages: The roundtables, sub-groups and "The floor is yours" are held in English. All other sessions are interpreted from/into EN, FR an IT