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EMN Hungary Conference: Different regional solutions to the challenges of temporary protection

25/11/2025

The EMN Hungary Conference will explore how EU temporary protection frameworks are evolving and how these changes are implemented in practice across Central Europe. It aims to connect high-level policy developments with on-the-ground realities for displaced persons and host communities. The conference will examine potential transitions from the EU temporary protection regime and highlight regional practices, challenges, and successful approaches.

Theme:
Temporary protection
Type:
Event
Keywords:
temporary protection
Central Europe
displaced person
host community

EMN Greece Conference: European return policy: challenges and prospects

18/11/2025

During this event, key challenges associated with the European return system will be examined, including divergences in Member States’ practices and obstacles to forced return. The conference will then focus on ongoing legislative developments and their implications for migration management and the Schengen area. Participants will discuss the role of a common and effective return system in supporting cooperation and migration management under the new Pact on Migration and Asylum.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
return policy
common return system
return regulation

Expo Re\turn: exhibition on voluntary return and reintegration

19/08/2025

Fedasil is organising an exhibition on voluntary return and reintegration at the Wintercircus. The Ghent-based Magnum photographer Carl De Keyzer portrays the stories of, among others, Rosa from El Salvador and Igis from Albania. This exhibition is organised in collaboration with Caritas International and the International Organization for Migration, with the support of AMIF.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
voluntary return
reintegration
photo
exhibition

Online Conference: Threats to the Independence of the European Court of Human Rights

10/06/2025

Amnesty International and the Human Rights League are proposing a meeting with Françoise Tulkens, former judge and Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights, and Manuela Cadelli, judge at the Court of First Instance of Namur, to examine the consequences of the letter from nine European authorities calling for a new interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). 

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
European Convention on Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
judicial independence
fundamental right

EMN Estonia Conference: Beyond Temporary: Building for the Future

08/04/2025

The conference will explore the future of Ukrainian displaced persons beyond temporary protection and will bring together policymakers, experts, and stakeholders to discuss strategies for policy transitions, address employment related integration challenges, share best practices, and examine the role of the diaspora in supporting long-term solutions.

Theme:
Integration
Temporary protection
Type:
Event
Keywords:
beneficiary of temporary protection
Ukraine

EMN Finland Conference: Between integration and return: Employment and integration of beneficiaries of temporary protection in Finland and Europe

18/10/2024

The 2024 national conference of EMN Finland shall examine the state of play as well as the future prospects of the situation of Ukrainians in Finland and in EU countries. The conference aims to address the challenges of integration in a situation where beneficiaries of temporary protection find themselves between two countries. The conference seeks to support these persons in the limbo between integration and return.

Theme:
Integration
Temporary protection
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
beneficiary of temporary protection
Ukraine
legal status
voluntary return

EMN Hungary Presidency High-Level Conference: For more effective returns (2 days)

29/08/2024

The European Migration Network (EMN) Hungary Presidency High-Level Conference will focus on possible avenues for more effective and efficient implementation of returns, with special emphasis on the important aspects of the return procedure, internal coherence, and joint cooperation with third countries and digitalisation to support the common EU system for returns.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
return policy

EMN Germany Workhop on Ukrainians in the EU: Accessing rights under the Temporary Protection Directive and the way forward

30/05/2024

The workshop will shed light on the challenges and best practices of the application of the Temporary Protection Directive in Germany, the Netherlands, and Lithuania. The participants will also discuss future scenarios to ensure the continued protection of Ukrainians.

Theme:
Temporary protection
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Temporary Protection Directive
implementation
Ukraine

EMN-OECD Webinar on the labour market integration of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine

13/05/2024

This webinar will showcase key findings from the new joint EMN-OECD Inform on the "Labour market integration of beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine". These findings will be contextualised by drawing insights from other international organisations and highlighting specific approaches and measures adopted by different host countries.

Theme:
Integration
Temporary protection
Type:
Event
Keywords:
labour market integration
beneficiary of temporary protection
Ukraine

MPI Europe Webinar: Ukrainians in the EU: What is next after the Temporary Protection Directive?

29/02/2024

On the occasion of the second anniversary of the activation of the TPD, this Migration Policy Institute Europe webinar will discuss what will happen when the TPD expires in a year’s time. The findings from comparative research in Latin America, Turkey, and Europe on approaches to temporary status and the arc of public support for displaced persons will also be presented.

Theme:
Temporary protection
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Temporary Protection Directive
Ukraine

Deadline for responding to the call for proposals for a framework partnership agreement for post-arrival and post-return assistance

11/04/2023

Frontex is launching a new open call for proposals aimed at concluding new framework partnership agreements to provide post-arrival and post-return assistance in 39 countries of origin, with qualified service providers from the non-profit sector, international organisations and national authorities from EU Member States and Schengen Associated Countries for a period of two and a half years. 

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
reintegration program
post-arrival assistance

MPI Europe webinar: Ukrainian Displacement in Europe, One Year Later

07/02/2023

This MPI Europe webinar aims to examine what has been done to foster the integration of those staying long(er) in host societies, to organize first reception services for any additional newcomers, and to prepare the return of those set on going home and rebuilding Ukraine.

Theme:
Temporary protection
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Ukraine
Temporary Protection Directive

Webinar on Alternatives to Detention (EMN Belgium)

16/11/2020

On 15 December, EMN Belgium and the EMN Return Expert Group will host a half-day webinar on Alternatives to Detention. The online event focuses on the current legal framework on alternatives to detention, the implementation of these alternatives in practice and the identification of emerging good practices and pilot projects.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
alternatives to detention
effective return

EMN Belgium Annual Policy Event 2019

06/11/2019

On 10 December 2019, EMN Belgium organises its annual asylum and migration policy event in which recent national and EU developments in the field of international protection, legal migration and integration and irregular migration and return will be discussed.

Theme:
Integration
Reception
International Protection
Economic migration
Citizenship & Nationality
Irregular Migration
Return & Readmission
Smuggling & Trafficking
Type:
Event
Keywords:
annual EMN policy event

Return and reintegration of TCNs: How to make it sustainable? (Tallinn)

22/06/2018

This conference seeks to shed light on the interesting topic of returning third-country nationals who have entered or stayed irregularly in the EU, as well as on their subsequent reintegration.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
reintegration

EMN DE NCP Conference on Return Counselling, Integrated Return Management and Reintegration (Berlin)

08/03/2017

This conference of the German Contact Point of the EMN, which will take place in Berlin on 4 May, focuses on return counselling, integrated return management and reintegration.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
Germany

REDIAL Conference: Challenges in the legal and judicial implementation of the Return Directive

REDIAL logo

10/10/2016

The REDIAL conference proposes for discussion some of the most contentious issues in the implementation of the Return Directive.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
return directive

FI EMN NCP Conference: Returning rejected asylum-seekers (Helsinki)

18/09/2016

The Finnish Contact Point of the EMN organizes this conference to present and discuss the outcomes of the EMN study on the return of rejected asylum-seekers.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
return
Grèce

EMN Conference - Rethinking returns from the EU (Slovakia, 2 days)

Logo EMN

20/05/2016

On the 6th and 7th of July, the Slovakian National Contact Point - in connection with its Member State's Presidency of the Council of the EU - organizes the EMN conference on sustainable returns and cooperation with countries of origin.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
country of origin
EMN conference

BE EMN NCP conference: Return of irregular and vulnerable migrants - Challenges & opportunities

EMN logo

26/10/2015

Join us to discuss how to provide irregular migrants with information on voluntary return and how to address vulnerabilities in the return and reintegration process.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
irregular migrant
vulnerable persons

Conference: Alternatives to immigration detention in the EU: the time for implementation (Odysseus, Brussels)

Web page of Odysseus network presentation of event

19/01/2015

Organised in the framework of the Made Real Project funded by the European Union, this conference provides a comprehensive understanding of the EU legal framework on alternatives to detention (ATD) for asylum seekers and
migrants.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
alternative to detention
detention
Made Real Project

EMN Annual Conference: Irregular Migration and Return: Challenges and Practices (2 days, Athens)

First page of EMN annual conference programme

08/05/2014

This year, the EMN Conference aims to support the policymaking process on a number of key areas of irregular migration policy, namely readmission, return, reintegration and cooperation with countries of transit and origin, as well as re-entry bans and (alternatives to) detention.

Theme:
Irregular Migration
Return & Readmission
External Dimension
Type:
Event
Keywords:
alternative to detention
detention
effective return
re-entry ban
reintegration

European Reintegration Instrument (ERI) Final Conference In Brussels

ERI Logo

27/01/2014

The ERI Final Conference, which will take place in Brussels on 6 February, will address the experiences gained, results achieved and ideas for future cooperation in the area of return and reintegration.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
joint return
reintegration

ADDE training: Current Questions on the Removal and Return of foreigners

23/05/2013

During this morning session, ADDE proposes to highlight and discuss applicable rules, recent case law and practices in the field of removal and return of foreigners.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
return directive

Information session for project tenderer in the framework of the European Return Fund - Annual Program 2012

Printscreen of the page of the unit in charge of EU funds

03/10/2012

On 11 October 2012, The Immigration Office together with Fedasil organize an information session aimed at providing useful information on how to submit an admissible project under this call for projects.

Theme:
Return & Readmission
Type:
Event
Keywords:
european return fund
voluntary return
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