13 Nov 2022 - 18 Nov 2022
Cologne, Brussels
European Cities Network on Migration
Tell Me Your Story is a platform for learning and exchanging experiences on storytelling and emotions in communications for liberal organizations.
Tell Me Your Story is a platform for learning and exchanging experiences on storytelling and emotions in communications for liberal organizations.
Study Visit and Expert Roundtable
Synchronization of the skills of migrants and the needs of European markets
The project aims at contributing to establish sustainable, inclusive and target group oriented training policies for migrants by supporting the consistency of training opportunities for migrants and the current/future demands of European job markets. Under this concept, stakeholders across Europe come together to see good examples of the vocational training modules in Germany. They exchange information experiences and practices regarding skills based trainings, vocational education and entrepreneurship trainings with their counterparts from related institutions to apply a similar approach in their countries. Later, they discuss in Brussels with decision makers and liberal intellectuals how to create more opportunities for migrants in labor markets and what liberals can offer.
13 November 2022
Arrivals to Cologne
Check-ins: Maritim Hotel, Heumarkt 20, 50667 Cologne
19:00 Dinner at Haxenhaus
Address: Frankenwerft 19
14 November 2022, Cologne
09:00 Introduction to Germany’s integration system
Moderator: Gülçin Sinav, Aret Demirci, Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Resource Persons: Dr. Wido Geis-Thöne, Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft e.V. (Institute of German Economy)
Address: Maritim Hotel, Meeting Room
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Continuation with inputs of the participants from Germany, Turkey, Spain and Greece
13:00 Lunch at the hotel
14:30 Gathering for transfer
15:00 Visit I: Integration Point
Resource Persons: Matthias Weingarten (Migration Officer Agentur für Arbeit), Sebastian Kusserow (Migration Officer Jobcenter Cologne)
Address: Butzweilerhofallee 1, 50829 Köln
17:00 Visit II: InHaus e.V. (Integration House)
Resource Persons: Elizaveta Khan, Chairman of InHaus e.V.
Address: Kalker Hauptstraße 170, 51103 Köln
19:00 Dinner at Heumarkt Restaurant
Address: Heumarkt 47
15 November 2022, Cologne
Departure from the hotel 08.45- walk
09:15 Visit III: Industrie- und Handelskammern/IHK
Resource Persons: Marketta Rosentreter and Anke Waldmann
Address: Unter Sachsenhausen 10-26, 50667 Köln
11:30 Optional Tour: Migration in Cologne
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Visit IV: FDP Cologne Office
Resource Person: Scharzad Farrokhzad and Colleagues, Technical University Cologne
Address: FDP Office, Breite STraße 159, 50667 Köln
16:30 Discussion with IQ Network
Resource Person: Rolf Goebels, Kaan Öztürk
Address: FDP Office, Breite STraße 159, 50667 Köln
19:00 Dinner at XII Apostel
Address: Heumarkt 47
16 November 2022, Cologne
09:30 Discussion about the liberal perspective of integration
Resource Person: Katja Hoyer,FDP Köln
Address: tbc
11:30 – 13:30 Free Time
14:00 Departure for Brussels
16:00 Check in: Hotel Barsey by Warwick, 381-383, Av. Louise, 1050 Bruxelles
19:00 Dinner at Restaurant La Quincaillerie
Address: Edelknaapstraat 45
17 November 2022, Brussels
Departure from the hotel 08.15- subway
09:00 Visit VIII: European Parliament
Resource Person: Andreas Glück MEP, Renew Europe Group
Address: Pl. du Luxembourg 100
11:30 Visit IX: Migration Policy Group
Resource Person: Alexander Wolffhardt
Address: Av. de Tervueren 32/34
13:00 Lunch at Vester Bar
15:30 Expert Roundtable: “How to create more opportunities for migrants in labor markets and what liberals can offer?”
Address: European Liberal Forum, Rue d’Idalie 11-13, boite 6, 1050 Ixelles
18:30 Documentary Screening & Reception
Address: Vester Bar Pl. du Luxembourg 13
18 November 2022, Brussels
10:00 Departures