The European Return and Migration Network (ERMiNe) invites you to participate in the second 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 points with the guidance from legal experts from Eftheia on identifying the most appropriate legal solutions:
- How to apply social security coordination rules in real-life scenarios
- Insights into the legal impact of national differences within the EU
- Analysis of three case studies:
- Healthcare
- Retirement
- Unemployment benefits
- How to derive general legal principles from specific cases
- A step-by-step method for tackling similar legal challenges in practice
Registration for the workshop
The workshop will take place on Zoom on April 16th, 2025, at 15:30 to 17:00 CET. It is free of charge and open to everyone interested in the topic.
The participants are kindly asked to join 15 minutes before the start of the meeting (at 15.15 CET).
Please sign up for the workshop here
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, and Rob Cornelissen, a part-time Guest-Professor of “European social security law” at the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
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.
Rob Cornelissen
is a lawyer who is currently a part-time of Guest-Professor “European social security law” at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
He started his career as an assistant professor at the Radboud University in Nijmegen where he taught for 4 years «General introduction into law».
In 1983 he was recruited by the European Commission.
Since 1990 he has been the head of several departments of the European Commission in fields such as free movement of workers, social protection and social inclusion, anti-racism and coordination of social security.
In addition, he has been closely involved in issues relating to EU immigration policies, cross-border health care, posting of workers and the supervision of the implementation of the EU Treaty provisions combatting discrimination based on race, ethnic origin, religion or belief, age, handicap or sexual orientation.
He has also contributed to the implementation of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, since 2009 integrated in the EU Treaty.
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.
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