| 1.00 p.m. | Guests arrive / Lunch |
2:00 p.m. | Maria Böhmer, Minister of State, Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration, |
| Opening statements: | |
| Czech Republic (holding Council Presidency, 1st half 2009), Lenka Ptáčková Melicharová, Deputy Minister, Ministry of the Interior | |
| France (brief report on Council Presidency, 2nd half 2008), Robert Djellal, Counsellor of Minister, Ministry for Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Mutually-supportive Development | |
| Sweden (looking ahead to Council Precidency, 2nd half 2009), Ruth Jacoby, Ambassador, Swedish Embassy | |
| Spain (looking ahead to Council Precidency, 1st half 2010), Estrella Rodriguez Pardo, Director General for Immigrant Integration, Ministry of Labour and Immigration | |
| 3.00 p.m. | European approach Jean-Louis De Brouwer, Acting Deputy Director General, DG Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission |
| 3.30 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 4.00 p.m. | Keynote Speech: Benchmarking Integration Policies Jan Niessen, Director, Migration Policy Group, Brussels |
| 4.30 p.m. | Results of the Country Survey to Gather Information about Existing Monitoring Systems in the EU Member States Andreas Kapphan, Office of the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration, |
| 5.00 p.m. | End of first day |
| 9.00 a.m. | Development of Indicators for Integration Policies and Implementation of Monitoring Systems – Experiences from Germany , the Netherlands and Sweden Dietrich Engels, Ruud Koopmans, Rob Bijl, Elin Landell |
| 10.30 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 11.00 a.m. | Subjective Indicators on Perception, Values and Identification – Experiences from Belgium, Estonia and Austria Didier Boone, Eva-Maria Asari, Peter Webinger |
| 12.30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1.30 p.m. | Indicators on Labour Market Integration – Experience from Italy Angela Castagna, Marco Caselli |
| 2.00 p.m. | Evalutating the Implementation of Integration Concepts– Experience from Spain Miguel Angel Gil |
| 2.30 p.m. | Setting Targets, Defining Goals: Benchmarking Integration Policies with Monitoring Systems – Experiences from Denmark and Norway Line H. Møller Hansen, Anne Folkvord |
| 3:30 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 4.00 p.m. | Discussion on how the process of mutual learning should continue |
| Statement from the European Commission Diane Schmitt | |
| Statement from Germany Ingo Behnel | |
| Recommendations for the 2009 expert meeting in Sweden Eva Schultz | |
| Looking forward to the Council Presidency of Spain in 2010 Nicolas Marugan Zalba | |
| 5.00 p.m. | End of the conference |
