In the light of their growing importance of migration and integration related topics on a local, national and international level, as well as their hyper-mediatisation and increasing politicisation, policy-makers are evermore called to formulate adequate responses to challenges posed by the movement of people. In its 10th annual conference, the Luxembourg National Contact Point of the European Migration Network brings together researchers and policy-makers to reflect on the role research has to play in providing knowledge that supports stakeholders in their task of formulating effective and coherent migration and integration policies and programmes.

Following a keynote speech, a first panel will discuss the role of evidence in policy-making in today’s migratory context, the challenges that are set to researchers and policy-makers, and ways to overcome these. A second panel will discuss the role of evidence in integration decision-making in the national context, considering the challenges and successes of collaboration between those who provide evidence and those who design policies.