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Final conference of the Pilot project – 2 weeks to go!

After 2 years intense work, we are pleased to inform you that the Final conference of the Pilot project will be organised in the City Hall of Brussels on the 14^th of October.

The conference is hosted by the City of Brussels and on initiative of Mr Mohamed Ouriaghli (Deputy Mayor in charge of equal opportunities) and organised in collaboration with the project partners; CEMR, ICF International and the Basque University.

So far, around 90 representatives from local and regional authorities from 18 European countries have signed up to participate in the conference. In addition, around 40 representatives from National association of local and regional authorities, representatives from EU institutions, NGOs and International organisations based in Brussels.

However, WE STILL HAVE SOME PLACES LEFT, so if you are Brussels-based and interested to participate we invite you to send us a request for participation by registering on the following link. Please note that we have closed the registrations for participants from outside Belgium.

The conference will take place during the whole day from 09h00-16h00, include interactive workshops and offer opportunities to exchange with representatives from EU Institutions, elected representatives and staff working at local and regional level. The focus of our discussions will be on progress to date on equality of women and men and further actions that can be taken at local, regional, national and European level, using the Charter and its instruments.

Draft programme – final conference 14th of October 2015

Venue: Brussels City Hall, Grand Place, 1000 Brussels

08h30 – 09h00 Registration of participants

09h00 – 09h45 Opening: Welcome and keynote speeches (Salle Gothique)

Moderator: Mr Frédéric Vallier – Secretary General Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)

Speakers:  

• Ms Salla Saastamoinen – Director for Equality – DG Justice – European Commission

• Ms Maria Noichl – Member of the European Parliament, Member of the FEMM Committee

• Mr Mohamed Ouriaghli, Vice-Mayor in charge of equal opportunities – City of Brussels

  9h45 – 10h15 Session 1: Policy relevance in EU (Salle Gothique)

• Ms Thérèse Murphy – Head of Operations, European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)

• Mr Ibon Uribe, Mayor of Galdakao (Spain) and Chair of the CEMR Standing Committee for Equality

• Representative DG Regio: funding for gender equality available for regional and local authorities trough ESIF (European Structural Investment Fund) (Name to be announced at a later stage)

10h15 – 12h00 Session 2: Presentation of the project results (Salle Gothique)

Moderator: Ms Petra van Nierop – Executive Director ICF International

Speakers:

• Dr Katerina Mantouvalou – Lead Managing Consultant – ICF International – Presentation of the indicators and the results of the first monitoring exercise

• Dr. Angelika Poth-Mögele – Executive Director European Affairs CEMR

• Stephanie Kürsten Camara – Policy officer in charge of the European Charter for Equality, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  • Presentation of the toolkit – brief presentation of the online version of the toolkit and explanation about its use.

• Dr Salvador Parrado – Expert Local Authorities – Member of the Steering Group of the Pilot project. 

12h00 – 12h30 Q&A session (Salle Gothique)

12h30 – 13h30 Lunch break and Networking

13h30 – 15h00 Workshops – 3 workshops à 1h30min

Workshop 1 – Employment (focus of the discussion will be how to increase the rate of employment, especially among women and issues related to work-life balance)

Workshop 2 – Decision-making (focus on the discussion will be how to promote women in local and regional decision-making but also how to involve women’s associations and women in general in public consultations and advisory bodies at local and regional level)

Workshop 3 – Service Delivery with focus on Gender Based Violence (focus of the discussion will be how to prevent and combat violence against women but also how to provide support to victims)

 15h00 – 16h00 Conclusions (Salle Gothique)

 Moderator: Representative from Committee of the Regions (tbc)

 Presentation of the key results from the 3 workshops

• Rapporteur workshop 1 (Representative from a local or regional government, name to be announced at a later stage)

• Rapporteur workshop 2 (Representative from a local or regional government, name to be announced at a later stage)

• Rapporteur workshop 3 (Representative from a local or regional government, name to be announced at a later stage)

Final remarks including considerations on the next steps: 

• Ms Maria Stratigaki – Vice Mayor of Athens, Associate Professor at Panteion University and Member of the Steering Group of the Pilot project

• Ms Annemarie Jorristma-Lebbink – President of CEMR, Member of the Dutch Senate

NB: This conference is funded by the European Commission.