CHAIR THOMAS FABIAN deputy mayor SOCIAL Leipzig AFFAIRS

VICE CHAIR EUROCITIES IRMA ROGNONI I VIADER councillor Barcelona FORUM

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CHRISTIN RETTKE policy advisor [email protected] 1, Square de Meeûs B-1000 Brussels tel +32-2-552.0888 ANA FEDER [email protected] policy advisor www.eurocities.eu EUROCITIES Brussels office @eurocitiestweet [email protected] http://www.eurocities.eu/socialaffairs Nov 2014 “Through EUROCITIES we share good ideas across Europe, and influence and participate in EU policy making on 2015 migration and integration, especially by bringing the urban PRIORITIES dimension into the debate.” RAMON SANAHUJA I VELEZ SOCIAL COHESION AND DIVERSITY Learn from your peers in other cities: director for immigration and integration, Barcelona LEARN & replicate their success, avoid their INCLUSION AND EMPLOYMENT OF NETWORK mistakes! Get advice and share knowledge “Working through EUROCITIES has accelerated our learning YOUNG PEOPLE with a wide network of colleagues as we’ve had the opportunity to learn from the challenges that other cities are facing. Having peer reviews between TACKLING DEEP-SEATED POVERTY cities brought in a wider perspective to the day to day work, helping us to improve our policies.” AND WORKLESSNESS NEIL MUNSLOW service manager: active inclusion, Newcastle upon Tyne

“Through EUROCITIES, we engaged in shaping the new round of EU funding. Recently, we successfully argued to combine WORKING GROUPS the European regional development and European social funds (ERDF and ESF). This means that programmes that HAVE Influence EU legislation and funding AND CHAIRS target both the inclusion of people in society and the physical programmes: make sure that the EU helps YOUR regeneration of areas at the same time can tackle urban your city achieve its goals Education SAY disadvantage more effectively.” The Hague TOM VERSLUYS Employment advisor International Social Affairs, The Hague Malmo

Health inequalities “Cities benefit from learning about funding opportunities Amsterdam Get early EU funding forecasts and early on and being able to contact prospective partners for funding briefs cooperation projects. For example, Leipzig and Riga started GET Homelessness a project under the Comenius Regio programme on early EU Find project partners school leaving.” Utrecht FUNDING Housing Participate in EUROCITIES projects THOMAS FABIAN Vienna deputy mayor, Leipzig

Migration & integration “I represented EUROCITIES at the 2012 European Platform Helsinki Against Poverty and Social Exclusion. At this high level event, I was able to raise awareness of how cities are Roma inclusion taskforce addressing active inclusion challenges and underline how BE Build an international profile for Ghent we are leading the way in putting the concept of social your city on social affairs VISIBLE investment into practice.” Smart social inclusion The Hague JOHN COTTON councillor, Birmingham