MiFriendly Cities 'Share Our Journey' - Online Event Programme

Wednesday, 10th March 2021

10am - 4.30pm

(On Zoom)

All timings are in GMT/UTC.

A migration-friendly city is one where the voices, skills and passion of refugees and migrants flourish, so that all branches of the community are fully invested in its future, and the social and economic fabric of the region is strengthened.

After three years running MiFriendly Cities, it’s now time to share our learning and insights more widely.

Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton City Councils, 8 other project partners and our project participants look forward to hosting you in March. In the meantime, if you have any queries, please email mifriendlycities@coventry.gov.uk.

Who's coming?

Join us and fellow delegates from across the UK and Europe, including:

international and local NGOs
service providers
project participants
UK local authorities from Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, London and the West Midlands
Cities and communes of Athens, Bologna, Bilbao, Fuenlabrada, Pesaro and Warsaw
and your hosts from Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton

Our event will be richer and brighter with your attendance!

Agenda

10.00am	Event welcome from our Chair for the day, Ros Johnson, project Legacy Officer
10.05am	Introduction to the MiFriendly Cities project – Peter Barnett CBE, Head of Service Libraries and Migration, Coventry City Council
10.10am	City Council perspectives – Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton
10.30am	Project participant perspectives – hosted by Tamsin Koumis of Migration Work
10.55am	Launch of our new project film, exclusive project content and our online exhibition, plus an overview of our afternoon workshops
11.15am	Together, let’s watch our new film about the project

11.40am

BREAK – Use the break to watch exclusive content about the project

Our exclusive content is designed to communicate the breadth of the MiFriendly Cities project, sharing what we did and how we did it. We recommend you view the content related to the corresponding workshops you plan to attend in the afternoon.

MiFriendly Cities online exhibition – My City

MiFriendly Cities ‘Our Journey’ project summary film

Webinar style presentations (15-30mins each):

2-2.30pm	Workshop session A Workshop 1 How to make a city migrant friendly? Help us build a toolkit for other cities. Workshop 2 Grassroots seed funding – sharing insights into Social Innovations and Social Enterprise Workshop 3 Community healthcare in migrant communities
2.45-3.15pm	Workshop session B Workshop 4 Language learning and sharing Workshop 5 Importance of hearing migrant voices Workshop 6 Citizen rights and legal support
3.15pm	15 min BREAK after workshops
3.30pm	MiFriendly Cities Share Our Journey afternoon session Discussion panel with MiFriendly City participants and project partners – hosted by Bethany Finch, Commissioning manager, Refugees and Migration, Birmingham City Council Final summary and closing remarks
4.30pm	Close