Globally, the Citizen Sector has produced a number of highly impactful, proven and scalable solutions that pave a way forward for addressing issues emerging from current migratory and refugee movements. Still, despite their strong evidence base, replicability and scalability, they are often overlooked when designing EU policies, showcasing best practice guidelines or implementing funding mechanisms.
The Summit "EU Migration Policy Summit" aims to bring together social entrepreneurs, beneficiaries and EU policy makers to exchange good practices for further co – creation of policies and an improved framework for identifying and supporting successful initiatives. By bringing these key groups together, the Summit expect new synergies for state and EU – wide policies to emerge that provide a way forward for Europe to become the welcoming, participatory and inclusive community that it aspires to be.