MIPEX III launch in Sweden - What does this mean from a Swedish perspective?

The Swedish Red Cross and British Council are launching the Migrant Integration Policy Index in Sweden on 6th April in Stockholm...
Preliminary Agenda
 
Moderator: Gary Baker
 
09.30               Welcome and Introductory remarks – Elin Svensson, British Council and Jan Niessen, Migration Policy Group
 
09.40-10.15     Introduction
 
                        Ulrika Årehed Kågström, General Secretary Swedish Red Cross
 
                        Erik Ullenhag, Swedish Minister for Integration
 
Anders Knape, President Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions
 
10.15-11.00     Thomas Huddleston, Migration Policy Group
Presentation of MIPEX III results
 
11.00-12.00     Panel discussion, questions and open discussion; what does this mean in a
Swedish perspective?
Thomas Huddleston, MPG
Henrik Nilsson, Swedish Red Cross
Roy Melchert, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions
Jasenko Selimovic, Swedish Ministry of Employment
 
12.00-13.00     Lunch
 
13.00-13.10     Representative from European Commission Sweden and European Parliament Information office in Sweden
 
13.10-14.00     Georges Lemaitre, OECD
Presentation on outputs and results from labour market integration in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Germany.          
 
14.00-14.20       Coffee break
 
14.20-15.40 Panel discussion with representatives from NGOs and State departments in
Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Germany
 
Denmark
Henrik Torp Andersen, Ministry of Integration
Heidi Fugmann, Danish Refugee Council
Norway
Barbro Bakken, Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion
Steven Meglitsch (tbc), Norway’s Contact Committee for Migrants and Authorities Finland
Kristina Stenman, Ministry of Interior
Leena Koivisto (tbc), E2 think tank  Germany
Farid El Kholy (tbc), Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
Czarina Wilpert, Technical University Berlin Sweden
Åsa Olli Segendorf, Ministry of Employment
Henrik Nilsson, Swedish Red Cross
 
15.40-15.55 Round-up and close, Jan Niessen MPG
 
 
Date: Wednesday 6 April 2011
Venue: Europahuset (House of Europe), Regeringsgatan 65, Stockholm