Day 1: 24 May 2023

08:00 - 09:00: Registration and Coffee

(Chair: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Unz, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, THWS, Germany)

Time	Subject	Speaker	Status
09:00-09:05	Welcome Address	Prof. Dr. Robert Grebner, President of the Technical University of Applied Sciences (THWS), Germany	confirmed
09:05-09:15	Introduction	Prof. Dr. Ralf Roßkopf, Institute for Applied Social Sciences, THWS, Germany	confirmed

(Chair: Prof. Dr. Ralf Roßkopf, Institute for Applied Social Sciences, THWS, Germany)

Time	Subject	Speaker	Status
09:15-09:35	Keynote: Transnational Skill Partnerships: The Triple Win and Its Conditions	Prof. Dr. Michael Sauer, University of Applied Siences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany	confirmed
09:35-09:55	Needed Structures and Potential Focus Countries for Transnational Skill Partnerships	Dennis Röntgen, Senior Policy Officer, Division 500 - Policy Issues of Displacement and Migration, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)	confirmed
09:55-10:15	The EU Talent Partnerships under the New Pact on Migration and Asylum	Diane Angermueller, Head of Sector Legal Migration, European Commission	confirmed (online)
10:15-11:00	Panel Discussion: Making Transnational Skill Partnerships a Triple Win: How to Establish a Suitable Framework	Prof. Dr. Michael Sauer, University of Applied Siences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany Diane Angermueller, Head of Sector Legal Migration, European Commission Dennis Röntgen, Senior Policy Officer, Division 500 - Policy Issues of Displacement and Migration, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)	confirmed confirmed confirmed

(Chair: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Unz, Institute for Applied Social Sciences, THWS, Germany)

Time	Subject	Speaker	Status
11:30-12:00	The ICMPD Migration Partnership Facility (MPF) and Related Projects	Dr. Jennifer Tangney, Senior Project Manager, Migration Partnership Facility, ICMPD, Brussels, Belgium	confirmed
12:00-12:30	The GIZ Labour Migration & Skills Partnerships Section and Related Projects	Ms. Sonja Alves Luciano, Advisor Labour Migration, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Bonn, Germany	confirmed
12:30-13:00	The Displaced Talents for Europe (DT4E) Project	Mr. Rob De Lobel, Head of the Labour Mobility and Social Inclusion Unit, IOM, Belgium	confirmed (online)

(Chair: Prof. Dr. Christoph Bördlein, Institute for Applied Social Sciences, THWS, Germany)

Time	Subject	Speaker	Status
14:30-14:50	Keynote: From Projects to Structures, Competencies, Processes and Budgets	Anna-Kristina Kaufmann, Division Foreign Professionals, Federal Ministry of Health, Germany	confirmed (online)
14:50-15:10	The Employer’s Perspective: Needs and Reluctance	Najim Azahaf, Senior Project Manager, Bertelsmann Stiftung	confirmed
15:10-15:30	Formal Skilled Crafts Qualifications and Scattered Responsibilities: Needs for Reform?	Dr. Peter Weiss, Head of the Business Promotion Department, Central Association of German Skilled Crafts (ZDH), Berlin, Bonn	confirmed
15:30-15:50	Transnational Brain Gain: From Short-term Projects to Long-term Structures	Detlef Gürtler, German Trade and Invest, Region Africa/Middle East	confirmed
15:50-16:45	Panel Discussion:Making Transnational Skill Partnerships Work: Levelling Barriers	Anna-Kristina Kaufmann, Division Foreign Professionals, Federal Ministry of Health, Germany Najim Azahaf, Senior Project Manager, Bertelsmann Stiftung Dr. Peter Weiss, Head of the Business Promotion Department, Central Association of German Skilled Crafts (ZDH), Berlin, Bonn Detlef Gürtler, German Trade and Invest, Region Africa/Middle East	confirmed (online) confirmed confirmed confirmed

Time	Subject	Speaker	Status
16:45-17:00	Conclusion	Prof. Dr. Ralf Roßkopf, Institute for Applied Social Sciences, THWS, Germany	confirmed