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Integrating Cities V Conference Making integration work in Europe's cities Amsterdam 8-9 March 2012
Conference moderator: Ali Al-Jaberi
DAY 1
8 March 2012
8.45
REGISTRATION & COFFEE
9.30
OPENING
Welcome by Andrée van Es, Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam
Paul Bevan, Secretary General of EUROCITIES
Keynote presentation on diversity management and political discourses: The “local turn”by Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Professor of Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
10.30
COFFEE BREAK and departure to site visits (masterclasses are at the location of site visits)
11.15
SITE VISITS & master classes (at 8 different locations in Amsterdam, including lunch)
15.15
Departure for plenary session
16.00
HIGH LEVEL POLICY DIALOGUE
The role of states, cities and Europe in the new EU agenda for integration.
Introduction by Eberhard van der Laan, Mayor of Amsterdam
Pekka Sauri, Deputy Mayor, Helsinki
Signe Færch, Committee for Integration, Copenhagen
Karine Daniel, Deputy Mayor, Nantes Metropole
Fahrad Dilmaghnani-Marand, State Secretary for Integration and Employment, Berlin
Luc van den Brande, Chairman of Commission for Citizenship, governance, institutional and external affairs (CIVEX), Committee of the Regions
Judith Sargentini, Member European Parliament
17.30
SIGNING CEREMONY OF THE INTEGRATING CITIES CHARTER
19.00
Canal cruise through Amsterdam (departure from Felix Meritis)
20.00
DINNER at NEMO Science Center
DAY 2
9 March 2012
9.00
THE INTEGRATING CITIES CHARTER - TWO YEARS ON
Launch presentation of MIXITIES video – Migrant youth’s views of integration
Paul Bevan, Secretary General EUROCITIES
Integrating Cities report presentation and commentary
Moawia M. Ahmed, Greek Migrants Forum
9.30
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP ON MIGRANT INTEGRATION
Keynote presentation by Stefano Manservisi, Director General for Home Affairs, European Commission
10.00
COFFEE BREAK
10.30
MAKING INTEGRATION WORK: WORKSHOP SESSIONS
- Making procurement work for diversity and equal opportunities
- Transnational city learning on migrant integration
- How to measure what counts - integration monitoring and indicators
- Leadership and public commitment to migration and integration
- The role of cities in refugee resettlement
- Introductory and Language courses – a multi-level governance issue?
- Urban planning - a solution for integration policies?
- closed door session with Stefano Manservisi (by invitation only)
12.15
CLOSING SESSION
Keynote presentation by Saskia Sassen, Robert S Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University.
Keynote presentation by Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam
13.15
CLOSING LUNCH
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