Conference Programme

Cities as Change Makers in European Asylum and Migration Policy

International Cities4Refugees conference in Berlin

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Thursday, 10 October 2024

Potsdamer Str. 65, 10785 Berlin: Conference Room, 1st floor

• 12:30-13:00

  Registration, Coffee & Tea

• 13:00-13:10

  Welcoming Words

  Katarina Niewiedzial
  Commissioner of the Berlin Senate for Participation, Integration and Migration

• 13:10-13:20

  Introduction to the Conference

  Janne Grote
  Policy Advisor, Berlin Senate Department for Labour, Social Services, Gender Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination

• 13:20-15:00

  Role of Cities and City Networks in the CEAS Implementation Process – Potential and Limitations

  Coordinator: Maria Prsa, Policy Advisor, City of Munich, International Alliance of Safe Harbours and German Alliance of Safe Harbours

  • Niels Tubbing, Chair, Eurocities Working Group Migration and Integration, City of Amsterdam
  • Léa Enon-Baron, Co-Director, ANVITA France
  • Clara Easthill, Policy Advisor to the Mayor, University City of Marburg, German Alliance of Safe Harbours
  • Tiago da Cruz, Coordinator, From the Sea to the City

• 15:00-15:45

  Coffee Break

• 15:45-17:15

  Introducing City-ID Cards – Potential and Challenges for Cities

  Coordinator: Jan Braat, Policy Advisor, City of Utrecht, Chair, City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (C-MISE)

  • Simonet Aglaë, Mission Manager of the Mission Hospitalité and Homelessness Public Policies, City of Villeurbanne

  • Frauke Steuber, Head of Unit, Berlin Senate Department for Labour, Social Services, Gender Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination, Willkommenszentrum Berlin

• 17:15-17:30

  Short Break

• 17:30-19:00

  Cooperation Between Civil Society and Administration in City Networks – Participatory Administrative Approaches

  Coordinator: Lea Rau, Policy Officer, Berlin Governance Platform

  • Nick Dreher, Researcher, Toronto Metropolitan University, Soli*City

  • Effie Thanou, HIAS Greece
  • Nini Farrokhi, Seebrücke / From the Sea to the City
  • Nikos Papakostas, Inter Alia, Greece
  • Meike Karasiewicz-Maouloudi and Betül Gülsen, Policy Advisor, Berlin Senate Department for Labour, Social Services, Gender Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination

• 19:00-19:30

  Transfer to Restaurant

• 19:30-22:00

  Conference Dinner

  Weilands Wellfood
  Eichhornstraße 3, 10785 Berlin at Potsdamer Platz

Friday, 11 October 2024

European House, Unter den Linden 78, 10117 Berlin

Conference Moderation:
Jasmijn Slootjes, Associate Director, Migration Policy Institute Europe

• 08:45-9:30

  Registration, Coffee & Tea

• 09:30-09:40

  Welcoming Words

  • Cansel Kiziltepe, Berlin Senator for Labour, Social Services, Gender Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination
  • Gosia Binczyk, Deputy Head of European Commission Representation in Germany

• 09:40-10:00

  Keynote

  • Nele Allenberg, Head of the Department of Human Rights Policies Germany/Europe of the German Institute for Human Rights

• 10:00-11:30

  Panel I: CEAS Impact on European Cities – Fair Solidarity Mechanism, Organisation of Distribution in Europe and Financing of Host Municipalities

  • Léa Enon-Baron, Co-Director – ANVITA France
  • Gerhard Mayer, Head of Department, Office for Housing and Migration, City of Munich
  • Erik Marquardt, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/European Free Alliance, Germany – Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Jane Oispuu, Advisor, Representation of the European Commission in Germany
  • Dr. Marcus Engler, Research Associate, DeZIM

• 11:30-13:00

  Panel II: CEAS Impact on European Cities – Children, Young People and Families in the Border Procedures

  • Zozan Bulut, Personal Assistant for Migration, Participation and Anti-Discrimination to Elif Eralp – Member of Berlin’s Abgeordnetenhaus (State Parliament)
  • Martin Gött, Head of Department, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Center Überleben Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic
  • Birgit Sippel, Member of the European Parliament, Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, Germany – SPD
  • Dr. Ulrike Hornung, Head of Directorate Migration, Refugees and European Harmonization, Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community

• 13:00-14:15

  Lunch at European House

• 14:15-15:45

  Panel III: CEAS Impact on European Cities – Potential increase in irregular migration

  • Jan Braat, Policy Advisor, City of Utrecht, Chair, City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (C-MISE)
  • Gordan Bosanac, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/European Free Alliance, Croatia – Možemo!
  • Catherine Woollard, Director, European Council on Refugees and Exiles – ECRE
  • Radosław Michalski, Head of Department, City Brand Department, City of Wrocław
  • Aziz Bozkurt, Berlin Secretary of State for Social Services

• 15:45-16:00

  Closing remarks

  Katarina Niewiedzial
  Commissioner of the Berlin Senate for Participation, Integration and Migration

• 16:00

  End (Coffee & Tea)