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Day 1 - Wednesday 20 November
Day 2 - Thursday 21 November
08:30 — 09:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:00 — 09:45
Conference opening & welcome speeches

Moderator: Ali Al-Jaberi

  • Matteo Lepore, Mayor, Bologna
  • Rutger Groot Wassink, Deputy Mayor, Amsterdam & Chair of Eurocities Working Group Migration & Integration
09:45 — 11:00
Panel debate I – Rethinking Participation: cities and migrants building stronger local democracies
11:00 — 11:30
Coffee break & Networking
11:30 — 13:00
Parallel workshops - session I
11:30 — 13:00
Workshop 1: Homelessness and migrants with a precarious status: an overview from the local level – in cooperation with C-MISE
11:30 — 13:00
Workshop 2: Participatory art and culture for an inclusive society in European cities
11:30 — 13:00
Workshop 3: Co-design in “emergencies”: examples from European cities
13:00 — 14:30
Lunch Break
14:30 — 16:00
Parallel workshops - session II
14:30 — 16:00
Workshop 4: Cities fostering safer spaces for the participation of vulnerable migrants
14:30 — 16:00
Workshop 5: A peer-learning journey with the Integration Champions: A Eurocities initiative
14:30 — 16:00
Workshop 6: Community participation and well-being among migrants and refugees
16:00 — 19:00
Free time
19:00
Cultural activity by Bologna municipality (TBC)
20:00 — 22:00
Integrating Cities Charter signing ceremony & Reception dinner

New signatory cities: Bologna, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Vilnius

  • Matteo Lepore, Mayor, Bologna
  • André Sobczak, Secretary General, Eurocities
08:45 — 09:15
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:15 — 09:30
Presentation of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
09:30 — 10:45
Panel II – Co-designing narratives to shape an inclusive society
10:45 — 11:15
Coffee break & Networking
11:15 — 13:30
Site Visits

A bus will drive you to the different site visits

11:15 — 13:30
Site Visit 1: SALUS Space

Via Malvezza, 2/2, Bologna

SALUS is a space for social innovation through a participatory design process (co-design), with a generative and intercultural Welfare approach. It is a centre of local services for citizens in a multi-purpose building.

11:15 — 13:30
Site Visit 2: Intercultural Centre Massimo Zonarelli

Via Giovanni Antonio Sacco, 14, Bologna

The Intercultural Centre promotes the participation of new citizens in the Municipality and supports migrant and intercultural associations.

11:15 — 13:30
Site Visit 3: Cantieri Meticci and Centro NEAR at MET Space

Via Massimo Gorki, 6, Bologna

MET Space was a warehouse, now regenerated with a view to recycling. It hosts exhibitions, shows, intercultural evenings, events and a youth day center for unaccompanied minor migrants and young adults.

13:30 — 14:00
Transport back to the venue
14:00 — 15:00
Closing words and Lunch

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