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European Resettlement Skills Share Day

Monday, 14-05-2012 to Tuesday, 15-05-2012

Brussels, Belgium - The European Resettlement Skills Share Day is a one-and-a-half day event for 120 to 150 people, taking place in Brussels on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th of May, 2012. The event will bring together practitioners in refugee resettlement from both governments and NGOs, engage new actors and build toward a future EU Resettlement Practitioners’ Network. The Skills Share Day will cover policies and practices in refugee resettlement, in countries of first asylum as well as in countries of resettlement, using the resettled refugee and the “refugee journey” as the focus of the programme.
 
It will be an interactive event, with a focus on active participation, networking and exchange throughout the programme. It will cover the whole resettlement process, highlighting resettlement needs and priority areas, selection and pre-departure activities and the actual travel, reception and integration.

An evening reception and film screening will introduce several resettlement films, followed by a panel discussion with film directors, resettled refugees and media representatives.

The Skills Share Day is delivered within the framework of “Linking-In EU Resettlement”, the joint IOM, ICMC, and UNHCR project that takes place from September 2011 to November 2012. The “Linking-In” project aims to link resettlement phases, strengthen the expertise of European practitioners at all stages of the resettlement and integration process and build a network of resettlement practitioners and actors – including national, regional and local governmental authorities, NGOs, international organizations and the media – both in participating Member States and more broadly across the EU.

Contact:

Jo De Backer
IOM Brussels
Email: jdebacker@iom.int
Website: http://www.resettlement.eu/