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Programme (8am-10am)

8:00 am: coffee and snacks

8.30 am: Welcome by Alexandra Rys, Director of Communications of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services 

Refugees@work: Mathieu Crettenand (UNIGE) and Ivan Küttel (EY)

Information on S permits and discrimination against people with asylum backgrounds in the workplace: Metin Turker, Bureau de l'intégration des étrangers du canton de Genève

Good practices: Julie Rieger and Montaha Jaafar, City of Geneva

10am: End of the workshop

Online workshop for the MISO
Hiring people from a migrant background: what if the administration led by example?

Program
In the framework of the MISOthe month of social innovation organised by the Hospice General, Refugees@work organised an interactive workshop with the aim of questioning the role of public administration in the professional integration of people with asylum and migration background.

Stakeholders

Mathieu Crettenand, Delegate for Integration, University of Geneva

Metin Turker, Project Manager, Office for the Integration of Foreigners

Sarah Pernet, collaborator at the Department of Public Education, State of Geneva

Ivan Küttel, Marketing Specialist, Ernst & Young AG

Montaha Jaafar, IT Officer, City of Geneva

Julie Rieger, Head of the Infrastructure Unit, City of Geneva

Webinar | Barriers and Opportunities for Refugee Integration

Program

Introductory remarks by Mr. Thierry Apothéloz (State Councillor in charge of the Department of Social Cohesion) and Mrs. Sonia Studer (HR Director, Nestlé Switzerland)

First part: presentation of the Refugees@work initiative and the Swiss and Geneva context in terms of professional integration of people with an asylum background.

Second part: discussion and exchanges on the obstacles and opportunities to the professional integration of refugees, with the interventions of Tobias Muller, Professor at the University of Geneva, Geneva School of Economics and Management, Alain Collard, Director, EMS Résidences de la Champagne and Karen Simonin, Partner in charge of diversity and inclusion, EY Geneva.

Workshops

To better inform and sensitize your employees to the involvement of refugees

we offer to come to your company.

The advantages

  • Maintain a competitive advantage by taking advantage of the entire local workforce.
  • Save time in future hiring of people with F and B refugee permits.
  • Ask your questions directly to integration experts.
  • Let your employees benefit from the richness of diversity.

The format

  • Duration of the workshop 1h30
  • Presentation (45 minutes)
  • Participatory workshop (30 minutes)
  • Q & A (15 minutes)

Topics covered

  • Permits, conditions, procedures, stereotypes, ...
  • Adapted to your needs

The advantages

  • Better knowledge on issues related to the professional integration of persons with an asylum background.
  • Opportunity to discuss asylum issues directly with the private and public sector and to have one's claims heard by the other party
  • Enlargement of the network

The format

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Themes covered

  • Employability B Refugee permit and F permit
  • Agenda Integration Switzerland (AIS)
  • Current problems of persons with an asylum background
  • Concrete projects

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Program

8:00 am: coffee and snacks

8:30: Welcome by a member of the CCIG management

Refugees@work: Mathieu Crettenand (UNIGE) and Ivan Küttel (EY)

Information on S permits and discrimination against people with asylum backgrounds in the workplace: Metin Turker (IBE)

Good practices: Julie Rieger and Montaha Jaafar (City of Geneva)

Programme (8am-10am)

8:00 am: coffee and snacks

8.30 am: Welcome by Alexandra Rys, Director of Communications of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services 

Refugees@work: Mathieu Crettenand (UNIGE) and Ivan Küttel (EY)

Information on S permits and discrimination against people with asylum backgrounds in the workplace: Metin Turker, Bureau de l'intégration des étrangers du canton de Genève

Good practices: Julie Rieger and Montaha Jaafar, City of Geneva

10am: End of the workshop

Programme (8am-10am)

8:00 am: coffee and snacks

8.30 am: Welcome by Alexandra Rys, Director of Communications of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services 

Refugees@work: Mathieu Crettenand (UNIGE) and Ivan Küttel (EY)

Information on S permits and discrimination against people with asylum backgrounds in the workplace: Metin Turker, Bureau de l'intégration des étrangers du canton de Genève

Good practices: Julie Rieger and Montaha Jaafar, City of Geneva

10am: End of the workshop

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