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You can also download the draft programme in pdf version here 13.09.2024 ICC agenda.pdf

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

Moderator: Ali Al-Jaberi

Francisco Javier Ayala Ortega, Mayor, Fuenlabrada
Aurélie Belzunces, Head of Sector, Integration & Resettlement, European Commission
Shada Islam, Journalist and Founder of New Horizons Project
Miriam Koch, Commissioner for Culture and Integration, Dusseldorf
Yves Pascoau, Vicepresident, Nantes Metropole
Patrick Zaki, Minority Rights Researcher and Human Rights Defender, University of Bologna.

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

(in cooperation with C-MISE)

Moderator: Myriam Cherti, COMPAS, Oxford University

Guido Acquaviva, Milan
Jan Braat, Utrecht
Jennie Corbett, Manchester
Ramon Sanahuja, Barcelona (TBC)

11:30 — 13:00
Workshop 2: Participatory art and culture for an inclusive society in European cities

Moderator: Ceri Hutton, MigrationWork

Amir Issaa, Rapper and Artist
Rita Monticelli, Councillor in charge of rights and interreligious dialogue, Bologna and Professor, Università degli Studi di Bologna
Mika Penttilä, Director of Education and Cultural Services, Oulu

11:30 — 13:00
Workshop 3: Co-design in “emergencies”: examples from European cities

Moderator: Dirk Gebhardt, MigrationWork

Luca Barani, Policy Officer, DG HOME, European Commission (TBC)
Panagiotis Psathas, Athens
Eugenia Rozbitskaya, Project Manager, Volunteer in Timișoara

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

Moderator: Razan Ismail

Ari Alatossava, Mayor, Oulu
Kirstie Angstmann, Migrants board council, Freiburg
Daro Sakho, Diversity Manager, Bologna
Antonella Valmorbida, ALDA Secretary General

14:30 — 16:00
Workshop 5: A peer-learning journey with the Integration Champions: A Eurocities initiative

Moderators: Sue Lukes and Richard Williams, MigrationWork

Jan Janoušek, Prague (TBC)
Caroline Schlenker, Grenoble Alpes Metropole
Priyanka Sood, Oulu

14:30 — 16:00
Workshop 6: Community participation and well-being among migrants and refugees

Moderator: Bella Kosmala, MigrationWork

Adem Kumcu, President, UNITEE
Sara Martinez‐Damia, Professor in Psychology, University Cattolica del
Sacro Cuore, Milan
Abd Alhrman Marae, Representative of the Agora, Grenoble Alpes Metropole
Ronke Oluwadare, Systemic Social constructivist Psychotherapist and
EtnoPsychologist

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, Grenoble-Alpes Metropole & 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

Moderator: Ali Al-Jaberi

Faouzi Achbar, Deputy Mayor, Rotterdam
Simona Bieliūnė, Deputy Mayor, Vilnius
Emily Marion Clancy, Deputy Mayor, Bologna
Fatemeh Jailani, COO, SINGA Global
Tineke Strik, Member of the European Parliament (TBC)
Kim Smouter-Umans, Director General, European Network Against Racism

10:45 — 11:00
Coffee break & Networking
11:00 — 13:30
Site Visits

A bus will drive you to the different site visits

11:00 — 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.

11:00 — 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.

11:00 — 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.

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

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