This year, during three days we focused mainly on:

• latest migration policies and trends
• myths and realities about migration
• climate migration and its complex interlinkages
• migrants’ rights and state sovereignty

Among lecturers in alphabetical order there were:

• Karin Atassi | intercultural worker, Brno Municipality, Czech Republic
• Ľudovít Bíró | Director of Migration Office, Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic & EMN Steering Board member for the Slovak Republic
• Linda Cottone | Project Officer at Immigration and Border Governance Division, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Headquarters, Switzerland
• Nicole Epting | Regional Representative, UNHCR Representation for Central Europe, Hungary
• François Gemenne | specialist of environmental geopolitics and migration governance & Director of the Hugo Observatory at the University of Liège, Belgium
• Iris Goldner Lang | Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia & holder of the UNESCO Chair on Free Movement of Persons, Migration and Inter-Cultural Dialogue
• Estefanía Guallar Ariño | Data Coordinator, Migration Governance Indicators at Global Data Institute, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Germany
• Fahmida Miah | Programme Manager at Climate Outreach, United Kingdom
• Magnus Ovilius | Head of Sector and Senior Expert for Forecasting, Preparedness and Policy Monitoring at the European Commission
• Pascal Reyntjens | Chief of Mission, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Chad
• Lenka Šafránková Pavlíčková | sociologist & Project Manager at SocioFactor, Czech Republic
• Vladimír Šucha | Head of the Representation of the European Commission in the Slovak Republic
• Michal Vašečka | sociologist & Program Director at Bratislava Policy Institute, Slovakia
• Koko Warner | Director of IOM's Global Data Institute, Germany

Like in previous years, we brought the seminar topics also to the public. In the evenings, you joined us for a theatre play Home, Where Is Yours? followed by a discussion and a film The Old Oak. More information is available in the section Public Events.     

More than 100 participants and speakers from 16 countries, including representatives working in state and public administration, state implementing authorities, foreign embassies or consular representatives, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, international humanitarian organisations, academia and independent experts were present. Representatives of the EMN National Contact Points from other EU Member States also participated in the seminar.