This was the final event in a series of three roundtables on the future of resettlement policies and community sponsorship, organised in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. The event was an opportunity to present and discuss the key findings and the preliminary recommendations of the project to an expert audience, consisting of member state representatives, EU officials, representatives from international organizations and NGOs based in Europe, as well as academia and think tanks.

 

The interactive discussion highlighted the need to think creatively to unlock the resettlement capacity of member states, while also providing targeted support to pilot or budding community sponsorship programmes. Participants also agreed that the EU has the potential to play an increasingly important role, for example by creating synergies among different funding sources, creating a coherent legal framework underpinning resettlement and complementary pathways, and exploring new partnerships at the global and local level. This debate will feed into the project’s final publication, which will be launched in a high-level event in the beginning of December.