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On 16 - 17 October 2012 the Hungarian EMN National Contact Point (NCP) arranged a conference on intra-EU mobility of third country nationals together with a training on European Union law on immigration and asylum.

Representative of the EMN National Contact Point in the Slovak Republic participated in the conference entitled Migration, demography and labour markets - Long term processes and linkages that took place in Bratislava on 19 September 2012.

Another interesting conference on labour migration was organised by the EMN National Contact Point (NCP) in Germany. It was entitled Migration of skilled labour from Asia to Germany and Europe and held on June 24, 2013 in Nuremberg.

EMN National Contact Point (NCP) for Slovakia organised 2nd educational seminar dealing with various aspects of labour migration of third-country nationals. The seminar entitled Labour Migration Opportunities and Challenges took place in Bratislava on 20 – 22 August 2013.

International Organization for Migration (IOM) as the coordinator of the EMN in Slovakia organized third edition of the EMN education seminar entitled Forced Migration – Causes and Possible Solutions. The seminar was held in Bratislava on 19 – 21 August 2014 and focused on the following topics: causes of contemporary displacement and current situation with regard to forced migration, asylum and other forms of international protection globally and in the EU, resettlement as a vital tool of international protection, and refugee hotspots in the Mediterranean region.