European Cities Network on Migration: Getting Skills Synchronised

About the event  

The event aims at discussing to define the needs of labor markets and the demands/needs of migrants in European cities and propose skills development programs for the refugees/migrants based on that. So that, there will be a base for the policy recommendation for vocational training and other training programs for refugees/migrants that will help them contribute to the societies they now live in. 

For this reason, in this workshop the participants will work in parallel working groups with other experts in order to answer the aspects of the basic questions below.  

Parallel working groups and discussion with experts 

• What are the existing projects/policies/ programs/trainings for the employment of the migrants?  
• What are the demands, the needs and the skills of the migrants? 
• What are the needs of labour markets in short and long term and what is missing in the market and how we can work on it? 
• How to reach our stakeholders to contribute to the synchronization of the skills of migrants and the needs of European markets? 

An intervention on:

Migration and labor market in Greece by George Stamatis, Secretary General for Social Solidarity and Fight Αgainst Poverty, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs