Event: Integrating integration – How to shift the integration of migrants from AMIF to ESF+

The Brussels representation of the Protestant Church in Germany is pleased to invite you to a side event to the European Week of Regions and Cities 2018 on

Integrating integration – How to shift the integration of migrants from AMIF to ESF+

11 October 2018, 13.00-14.30

EKD Office, Rue Joseph II 166, 1000 Brussels

In the proposals for the next MFF, the medium and long-term integration of migrants is shifted from the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) to the future ESF+. Integration is thus no longer a matter of home affairs, but of social policy. At the same time, the funding for the ESF+ is likely to diminish. What does this mean for the future of Cohesion Policy? Which implications go along with this shift, and which lessons from the AMIF can be learned for the ESF+? We want to discuss these questions with representatives from the European Commission, Fund administrators, and practitioners.

Light lunch will be provided from 12.30.

Agenda:

Welcome and introductory remarks                   Katrin Hatzinger, Head of the EKD Office Brussels

Presentation of the “Sprachräume” project          Christian van den Kerckhoff, Deputy Project Lead,

Bonn Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Learning

Overview of the transfer of the integration         Beate Gminder, Director, Directorate E Migration and Security Funds, Financial Resources and Monitoring, DG HOME, European Commission

Panel discussion:                                                Beate Gminder, DG HOME

Daphné Bouteillet-Paquet, European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)

Andreas Bartels, Diakonie Deutschland, Member of the ESF Monitoring Committee Germany

Christian van den Kerckhoff, Bonn Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Learning

Please register by e-mail to susanne.wander@ekd.eu.