Migration, Mobility and Development
The RIEMAS “Workshop Series”
The Euromed University of Fez is organizing, in collaboration with EMNES (The Euro-Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies), a workshop on October 17, 2019, around the theme:
Migration, Mobility and Development
This Workshop will see the participation of several researchers, experts, diplomats, business leaders and other high-level specialists from Morocco and the Euro-Mediterranean region for a working session which promises to be rich in innovative and productive exchanges.
The objective of this workshop is to provide a new vision of the realities and the different parameters around a subject of increasing priority on the international agenda. Beyond the exchange that this meeting will allow, the objective of this workshop is to identify avenues for reflection on the possibilities of reconstructing co-development relations between the two shores of the Mediterranean in a different way.
“Under the leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI , Morocco is one of the rare countries in the South to implement a global and multidimensional migration policy. In addition, Morocco is very active within the African Union, with a view to promoting a unified and balanced African position. The adoption of the Marrakech Global Compact on Migration in December 2018 is, in this regard, an important step at the level of the international community. In this context, the implementation of a global, concerted and balanced agenda on the themes of migration, mobility and development in the greater Europe-Mediterranean-Africa region is today more necessary than ever” indicated to on this subject the President of the UEMF, Mostapha Bousmina.
Oriented around four main themes, relating to the root causes of migration, the issue of gender and migration, migrants and job markets and finally the necessary deepening of cultural dialogue, this workshop aims to address the subject of different angles leading to new strategic and operational recommendations.
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Registration and registration | |
| 09.30 – 10.00 |
Introductory remarks |
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| Prof. Taoufiq Ouazzani Chahdi | Vice-President of Academic and Cultural Affairs of the UEMF | |
| Prof. Abderrahman Tenkoul | Dean of the Euromed Faculty of Human and Social Sciences | |
| Pr. Rym Ayadi | President of EMEA | |
| Keynote address | ||
| 10.30 - 10.40 | Mr. Fathallah Sijilmassi | Former Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) |
| Inaugural Session: Migration, Mobility and Development: For a global, concerted and balanced approach. | ||
| 10.40 - 11.15 | Mr. Khalid Zerouali | Wali-Director of Migration and Border Surveillance at the Ministry of the Interior. |
| Mr. Mohammed Dardouri | Wali, responsible for the National Coordination of the INDH | |
| Mr. Omar Amghar | Director, Directorate of EU and Mediterranean Processes, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation | |
| Mr. Juan Sell | Minister Counselor, Embassy of Spain, Morocco | |
| Mr Philip Mikos | Head of cooperation at the European Union delegation to the Kingdom of Morocco | |
| 11.15 - 11.30 | Coffee break | |
| First Panel: Facing the root causes of migration: Towards social innovation? | ||
| 11.30 - 13.00 | Mr. Othmane Benmoussa and Mrs. Mounia Slighoua | Professors at Euromed University of Fez |
| Mr. Giueseppe Provenzano | Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) | |
| Prof. Filippo Bignami | Professor and senior researcher at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland | |
| Mrs. Ghizlaine El Manjra | President of the CGEM Social Entrepreneurship Commission | |
| Mr. El Mahdi Ibn Abdeljalil | Holder of the Chair in Collective Emergences and Development, Ecole Centrale Casablanca | |
| 13.15 – 14.15 | Networking Lunch | |
| Second Panel: Gender and Migration: What are the realities on the ground in the Region? | ||
| 14.30 - 15.30 | Mr. Housseine Bachiri | Professor at Euromed University of Fez |
| Prof. Fatima Sadiqi | Co-founder of INLAC, Founder of the ISIS Center | |
| Mr Roger Albinyana | Director of regional Mediterranean policies at the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) | |
| Third Panel: Towards a more inclusive economic model for the participation of migrants in the labor market | ||
| 15.30 - 16.30 | Mr. Abderrahim Amghar, Ms. Malika Kettani and Mr. Rachid Benfares | Professors at Euromed University of Fez |
| Mr. Mohammed Ali Lahlou | Senior Technical Advisor GIZ, Morocco | |
| Pr. Rym Ayadi | President of EMEA | |
| Ms. Meryl Joly, Doctoral student | Euromed University of Fez | |
| 16.30 – 16.45 | Coffee break | |
| Fourth Panel: Beyond Borders: Is Cultural Dialogue still possible? | ||
| 16.45 – 17.45 | Prof. Abderrahman Tenkoul | Dean of the Euromed Faculty of Human and Social Sciences |
| Pr. Wail Benjelloun | Former President of UNIMED and former President of Mohammed V University | |
| Prof. Abdellah Boussouf | Secretary General, Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad | |
| Prof. Moha Ennaji | Professor, President of the International Institute of Languages and Cultures | |
| Wrap up and conclusion | ||
| 17.45 - 18.30 | Prof. Abderrahman Tenkoul | Dean of the Euromed Faculty of Human and Social Sciences |
| Mr Roger Albinyana | Director of regional Mediterranean policies at the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) | |
| Pr. Rym Ayadi | President of EMEA | |
| Prof. Taoufiq Ouazzani Chahdi | Vice-President of Academic and Cultural Affairs of the Euromed University of Fez | |
