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The EMN Discussion Evening Refugee Camp – My Home hosted an interesting guest - Kilian Kleinschmidt who during 2013 – 2014 managed Za'atari refugee camp under UNHCR in Jordan. During the event on 4 July 2017 in kino Lumière in Bratislava, he introduced his innovative ideas, inter alia, that we should start thinking about refugee camps as about future cities.

Watch the discussion with Kilian Kleinschmidt:

Profile: Kilian Kleinschmidt

IOM - Photo profile Kilian Kleinschmidt

International networker, humanitarian and refugee expert with over 25 years of experience in a wide range of countries, emergencies and refugee camps as United Nations official, Aid worker and Diplomat. He is the founder and CEO of the startup Innovation and Planning Agency (IPA), which aims to connect marginalised parts of the globe with the technological resources and know-how needed to catalyse change. Currently, he is challenging the Humanitarian Aid Sector through a range of new and unorthodox partnerships, technologies and ways of financing. He is advisor to governments, international organizations as well as social businesses.

The discussion was preceded by screening of the documentary film Salam Neighbor about life in Za'atari refugee camp together with a video from the directors Chris Temple a Zach Ingrasci who were, as the first filmmakers ever, allowed to live inside the camp for a month and document its life.

More information about the discussion evening.

The EMN Discussion Evening was organised within the 5th EMN Educational Seminar on Migration Addressing the Needs of Forced Migrants in the 21st Century.

The EMN Discussion Evening as well as the Educational Seminar were organised by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as the coordinator of the European Migration Network (EMN) National Contact Point for the Slovak Republic.

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