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update  15-02-2010

Day 1  Thursday, 18 February 2010        

9.30 h Registration/Arrival/Coffee

10.30 h Opening remarks 

• Ralf Fücks, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin
• Dr. Patrick Hart, Director, British Council, Berlin
• Argentina Szabados, Chief of Mission IOM Germany, Berlin

11.00 h Keynote speech

• Mobile Labour Markets. The Effect of Globalization: Trends and Perspectives
  Gervais Appave, Special Policy Advisor to the Director General, International Organization for Migration, Geneva

Follow-up discussion
  
11.45 h Keynote speech

• Migration - Integration - Innovation. Demands and Perspectives of Europe’s Labour Market
  Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann, President, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin

  Follow-up discussion
  
12.30 h Coffee break

12.45 h Keynote speech

• A Roadmap for Managing Highly-skilled Migration
  Dr. Thomas Liebig, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD, Paris

Follow-up discussion

13.30 h Lunch

14.30 h Presentation of the Discussion Paper of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung

• After the Blue Card - EU Policy on highly qualified Migration - Three Ways out of the Impasse
  Roderick Parkes, Head of Brussels Office, German Institute for International and Security Affairs 

15.15 h Key Labour Migration Characteristics and Policy Options for Different Destinations

        Presentation 1 

• Destination Europe Case: European Cities 
  Shams Asadi, City of Vienna, Chair of Economic Migration Group, EUROCITIES, Vienna

16.00 h Coffee break

16.15 h  Presentation 2 

• Destination North America: Case: USA
  Howard F. Rosen, Executive Director, Trade Adjustment Assistance Coalition, Washington, D.C.

17.00 h  Presentation 3 

• New-Destinations: Case: Turkey
  Kamuran Sezer, Futureorg - Institute for applied Future and Trend Research, Dortmund

18.00 h Poetry & Performance: Zena Edwards, London

19.00 h  Reception

Day 2  Friday, 19 February 2010

9.30 h  Registration/Coffee

10.00 h Keynote Speech 

• Attracting Foreign Professionals - The Industry's Perspective
  Dr. Bernhard Rohleder, Director General, BITKOM, Berlin

10.30 h Follow-up discussion

11.00 h Roundtable discussions

Roundtable I Innovation - Growth - Welfare System

• Is high-skilled labour migration a right tool for innovation and growth?
• Contribution to the sustainability of social security systems in the EU?
• Recognition of qualifications and recruitment schemes
• Pressure on welfare system?

Input:

• Jeanne Batalova, Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.
• Dr. Hans Dietrich von Loeffelholz, Head of Section, Chief Economist, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Nürnberg
• Anne Britt Djuve, Research Director, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo
• Prof. Herbert Brücker, Senior Researcher, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nürnberg

Chair: Shams Asadi, Chair of Economic Migration Group, EUROCITIES, City of Vienna

• Effects of ENP on integration of East European countries in the EU labour market?
• What are the jobs for Eastern European migrants?
• What are the consequences for the sending countries?
• Trends from sending to destination countries        

Input:

• Prof. Jane Hardy, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield 
• Elmar Hönekopp, Senior Researcher, Nürnberg, Presentation
• Martin Kahanec, Senior Research Associate and Deputy Program Director of the Migration Program Area, Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), Bonn, Presentation
• Jan Kust, Head of Unit, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Prague
  
  Chair: Dr. Carola Burkert, Senior Researcher, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Frankfurt, Introduction

Roundtable III Cooperation, Coherence, Protectionism? Labour Migration Policies in Europe

• Coherent policy strategies vs. unilateral policy approaches?
• Benefits and risks of protectionism in Europe’s labour markets?
• Ensuring sustainability of supply of talents
• Effects of brain drain and demographic shifts

Input:

• Irina de Sancho Alonso, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Brussels
• Thomas Liebig, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD, Paris 
• Egbert Holthuis, Deputy Head of Unit, European Employment Strategy, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Brussels

Chair: Roderick Parkes, Head of Brussels Office, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

13.30 h Lunch

14.45 h Music: “Komus” by Bahtiyar Edilbekov, Berlin

15.00  Panel Discussion

Battle for the Talents in Times of Labour Market Protectionism?

• A new policy trend after the EU Elections?
• Labour market protectionism as an effect of the financial crisis?
• Policies on national level vs. EU policies ?
• EU Blue card developments?

Discussants:

• Dr. Ibrahim Awad, Director of the International Migration Programme, ILO, Geneva
• Ryszard Cholewinski, Senior Migration Policy and Research Specialist, Migration Policy and Research Department, International Organization for Migration, Geneva Presentation, Presentation 
• Prof. Dietrich Thränhardt, Professor Emeritus, University of Münster, Münster

Chair: Jan Niessen, Director, Migration Policy Group, Brussels

16.30 h  Closure