Workshop
Introduction to the Right to Freedom of Movement and Establishment and Social security coordination
An introduction to European challenges of mobility
The European Return and Migration Network (ERMiNe) invites you to participate in the first online workshop in a series, focusing on the social, legal, and cultural issues related to intra-European mobility and settlement.
The webinar will focus on the following key questions:
- What legal foundations guarantee the right to freedom of movement within the EU, and how are they implemented?
- How do the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and Directive 2004/38/EC regulate free movement and establishment?
- What role does the European Labour Authority (ELA) play in supporting the right to free movement?
- What mechanisms exist for addressing infringements of the freedom of movement principle?
Registration for the workshop
The workshop will take place on Zoom on March 19th, 2025, from 15:30 to 17:00 CET. It is free of charge and open to everyone interested in the topic.
Please sign up for the workshop here by Tuesday, March 18th
You will receive the Zoom link the day before the workshop.
About the trainers
We are glad to feature Harald Hauben and Sofia Falcone from Eftheia, a Brussels-based consultancy on European Social Affairs, Management and Communication.
You can visit Eftheia’s website to learn more about their work, including their project MoveS.
Harald Hauben
is partner at Eftheia and a senior consultant. As an expert with a legal background, Harald has over 20 years of working experience with a focus on social protection and labour mobility. He has worked for the EU institutions, for ELA and in many new and candidate Member States as well as in third countries in different capacities such as Team Leader, Legal Expert and Trainer. Recently he has authored a study on ‘Undeclared work in the cultural and creative sector’, ELA (2024) and a report ‘Approaches to preventing, detecting and tackling bogus self-employment’, ELA, 2024.
Sofia Falcone
is a researcher in labour mobility and social security at European and Italian level. She works at Eftheia, where she has the opportunity to follow several projects in the field of cross-border mobility in the European context, mainly powered by the European Institutions (such as ELA, EU-OSHA, European Commission, etc.). In particular, over the past three years, Sofia has contributed to the legal consultancy on setting up ELA’s mediation procedure (2022), to ELA’s report on ‘Cooperation obligations and practices in the enforcement of EU rules on international road transport in the EU’ (2022), as well as a Report in which further cooperation between Member States through bi- and multilateral agreements in the field of posting is evaluated and explored (2023). Eventually, in 2024, Sofia contributed to creating an inventory representing an overview of Member States’ cross-border digital tools and services in the field of social security coordination.
About the European Return and Migration Network
The European Return & Migration Network (ERMiNe) – Promoting intra-European mobility and overcoming obstacles to free movement has been launched as a transformative initiative to support European citizens in exercising their right to free movement. Funded by the Erasmus+ programme under the Small-Scale Partnerships in Adult Education, the project will run from December 2024 to February 2026, fostering collaboration between organisations across Europe.
Coordinated by Werkstatt für Sozialforschung e.V. (Germany), ERMiNe brings together key organisations from Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Latvia and Poland including:
About Erasmus+
Erasmus+ is the EU’s flagship programme for education, training, youth, and sport, promoting cross-border collaboration and knowledge exchange across Europe.
Media Contact
Julie Markussen
Werkstatt für Sozialforschung e. V.
julie.werner.markussen@wfs-info.org
