CLIP Network High Level Meeting

CLIP Network High Level Meeting, 30 November - 1 December 2009, Brussels, Belgium

Intercultural approaches to community-building and cohesion in European cities – what can European integration policy learn from cities on how to manage migration and diversity in times of economic slump?

Venue: Committee of the Regions, 101 Rue Belliard, B-1040 Brussels – Room JDE52

Programme

DAY 1 - DAY 2

DAY 1 - Monday 30 November 2009

08.45 Registration - 101 Rue Belliard, B-1040 Brussels – Room JDE52

09.30 Opening and welcome

• Luc van den Brande, President, Committee of the Regions

• Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, Director General for Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport and Co-ordinator for Intercultural Dialogue, Council of Europe

• Jorma Karppinen, Director, Eurofound [presentation, .pdf, 212kb]

• Kent Andersson, Deputy Mayor, Malmö

10.10 Keynote address:

Importance of intercultural policies for the social cohesion of European societies in times of economic challenges

Maroš Šefčovič, European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth

10.30 Concerns and strategies of intercultural relations in European cities

Moderator: Anna Ludwinek, Research Officer, Eurofound

Focus:

• Shortcomings, challenges, concerns and opportunities of intercultural policies in European cities as regards the integration and social inclusion of migrants

• Need for a new paradigm of intercultural policies for community-building and deficits of traditional policy responses to diversity and integration in European cities

Intercultural strategies and practices of European cities
Hubert Krieger, Research Manager, Eurofound

Intercultural policies as a new paradigm for the integration of migrants
Robert Palmer, Director of Culture and Cultural Heritage, Council of Europe [presentation, .pdf, 708kb]

11.15 Coffee

11.35 First round of four parallel workshops – strategies of intercultural policies

Focus:

• Discuss presentations of previous session

• Practical examples of local strategies for intercultural policies

• Need for effective social inclusion and anti-discrimination

Moderators - Sergey Khrychikov, Migration Division, Council of Europe
Christoph Meier, Head of Integration Promotion, City of Zürich
Silke Tönshoff, Head of Unit 2, Directorate for Consultative Works, Committee of the Regions
Michaela Kauer, Head of Brussels Office, City of Vienna

Rapporteurs - Heinz Fassmann, Managing Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Science
Patrycja Matusz, Institute of International Relations, University of Wrocław (P)
Phil Wood, Director, Comedia Consultancy, Consultant to Council of Europe
Irena Guidikova, Head of Cultural Policy, Diversity and Dialogue Cultural and Natural Heritage Directorate, Council of Europe

Discussion

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Innovative approaches to local policies for intercultural relations

Moderator: Luis Miguel Pariza Castaños, Chairperson of the European Integration Forum, European Economic and Social Committee

14.40 Keynote address

New approaches to intercultural policies in the City of Stuttgart and in the CLIP network

Martin Schairer, Member of CLIP Steering Committee and Mayor, City of
Stuttgart

15.00 Intercultural relations with muslim and other faith communities in European cities

Focus:

• Analysis of conditions of Muslim and other faith communities in European cities

• De-bunking concerns regarding intercultural relations with Muslim and other faith communities in European cities

• Overview of intercultural policies of cities and examples of good practice

Religion and democracy in Europe and its importance for local policies for intercultural relations: results of the van Leer Group Foundation project within the Network of European Foundations (NEF)

Hywel Ceri Jones, European Policy Advisor NEF and former Director General, European Commission

Rien van Gendt, Chair, NEF Initiative on Religion and Democracy in Europe, member of the Board, Van Leer Group Foundation

At home in Europe? Muslims in European cities: results of the Open Society
Institute (OSI) study

Tufyal Choudhury, OSI and Lecturer in Human Rights, University of Durham

Intercultural policies of cities to meet religious needs and fostering intercultural dialogue: good practices

Doris Lüken-Klaßen, Researcher, european forum for migration studies (efms) [presentation, .pdf, 109kb]

16.00 Coffee

16.15 Second round of four parallel workshops

Focus:

• Workshop 2.1 and 2.2: specific issues of intercultural policies and practices towards Muslim and other faith communities

• Workshop 2.3: social inclusion, anti-discrimination and governance of intercultural policy

• Workshop 2.4: challenges for intercultural relations and de-radicalisation programmes

Moderators - Anissa Akhandaf, Policy Officer, Living Together Department**,** City of Antwerp (B) (tbc)
Ferruccio Pastore, Director, Fieri (I)
Costas Fotakis, Adviser on Migration, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, European Commission
Gari Pavkovic, Head of Integration Department, City of Stuttgart

Rapporteurs - Dirk Gebhardt, Programme Officer Migration & Integration, Eurocities
Ayse Oezbabacan, City of Stuttgart (D)
Jens Nilsson, Rapporteur on Intercultural Cities, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Council of Europe
Lord Graham Tope, Member of the Bureau, Committee of the Regions

Discussion

17.30 End of day one

18.00 Reception
Committee of the Regions, Atrium 5.

**DAY 2 - Tuesday 1  December 2009

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08.30 Registration

09.00 Lessons learned regarding local intercultural policies: three roundtables discussing workshop results

Moderator: Nazia Hussain, Director of Muslims in EU Cities Monitoring Project**,** OSI

Focus:

• Report back from workshops

• Analysis of local policy on intercultural relations

• Dialogue between various parties

09.05 Roundtable 1: results from the workshop on concerns and strategies of intercultural relations in European cities

• Report and discussion between the four rapporteurs of the first series of workshops on Monday morning

• Discussion in plenary

09.35 Roundtable 2: results from the workshops on governance, ethnic minorities and relations to muslims

• Report and discussion between the four rapporteurs of the second series of workshops on Monday afternoon

• Discussion in plenary

10.05 Coffee

10.25 Roundtable 3: What can we learn from the results of the conference?

Moderator: Heaven Crawley, Director of Centre for Migration Policy Research, University of Swansea

Focus:

• Policy conclusions at local and European level

Ebrahim Adia, Former Member of the Commission on Integration and Cohesion of the UK government
Alison Crabb, Deputy Head of Unit, Cultural Policy and Intercultural Dialogue,
DG EAC, European Commission
Sabine Frank, Coordinator, Platform for Intercultural Europe
Gon Mevis, Alderman, City of Tilburg (NL)

12.00 Conclusions

Moderator: Agnès Hubert, Societal Adviser, Bureau of European Policy Advisors to President Barroso_,_ European Commission

Focus:

• What is the future of European intercultural policy?

• Are there more challenges?

• Do we need a new paradigm?

Ilda Curti, Deputy Mayor (Assessore), City of Torino (IT)
Chris Hedges, Chairperson of European Committee for Migration (CDMG) of the Council of Europe; Assistant Director, Immigration and Nationality Directorate, Home Office, UK

13.00 Close of meeting

Jorma Karppinen, Director, Eurofound