LINK 2007 at Codeway Expo 2025
| Events programmes
We will be present with three events at the Development Cooperation Fair to be held in Rome from 14 to 16 May 2025.
08/05/2025
‘DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION: REFLECTIONS AND SOLUTIONS FOR A CHANGING WORLD’
Where: CODEWAY EXPO 2025, Fiera Roma
When: 14 May 11:45 -13:00 | Project Hub (Hall 1)
How to participate: REGISTER FREE HERE
| Wednesday 14 May, at 11.45 am, within Codeway Expo 2025, at Fiera di Roma, LINK 2007 promotes an event entitled ‘Development Cooperation: reflections and solutions for a changing world’. The event will focus on how development cooperation must evolve in the face of the epochal changes underway. The crisis of democratic systems, the disintegration of multilateralism and the increasing assertion of power relations between states pose new challenges at global level. In this context, it is essential to reconsider the role of international cooperation and how it must adapt to cope with the new geopolitical, social and economic dynamics. A debate will be opened between institutional actors, experts and civil society to compare visions and define how cooperation can evolve in a rapidly changing world, promoting innovative solutions for a shared future, able to overcome divisions and reaffirm the principles of global solidarity.
Agenda
11:45 – 12:45 Facilitator: Roberto Ridolfi, LINK 2007 – in a multibilateral dialogue with:
- Sandro De Luca, LINK 2007 President
- Francesco Corvaro, Special Envoy for Climate Change of the Italian Government
- Carlo Batori, Deputy Director General/Central Director for Development Cooperation Interventions, DGCS
- Pasquale Cerbone, International Affairs, CONFINDUSTRIA
- Barbara Mineo, Head of Local Development Programmes and Corporate Integration, ENI
12:45 – 13:00 Planned interventions: Elias Gerovasi, INFO COOPERATION
Facilitator Conclusions: Roberto Ridolfi, LINK 2007
‘MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION: A SUSTAINABLE APPROACH FOR SOCIETIES’
Where: CODEWAY EXPO 2025, Fiera Roma
When: 14 May 15:00 -17:00 | Cooperation Room – 1st floor (Hall 2)
How to participate: REGISTER FREE HERE
| Wednesday 14 May, at 3.00 p.m., the thematic seminar entitled ‘Migration and Development Cooperation: a sustainable approach for societies’ will be held. The seminar aims to analyse the relationship between vocational training and migration policies, with a focus on opportunities for young people. There is a need to rethink migration. An approach that sees migration not as a phenomenon to be stopped, but as a phenomenon to be governed so that it can take place under more sustainable and equitable conditions. In this context, training plays a central role, providing young people with the skills they need to effectively enter the labour market, both in their country of origin and destination, and to make informed migratory choices, promoting legal, safe and planned migration.
Starting from the project A Brighter Future, the seminar will aim to stimulate a pragmatic reflection among the different interlocutors and stakeholders for a sustainable migration with a positive impact on the new generations and on the development of the communities both in the countries of origin and in the host countries. Discussion and listening can be the best tool to be able to build immigration policies capable of leading to government choices that are as far-sighted as possible.
Agenda:
Moderator and introducer: Sandro De Luca, President LINK 2007
Speakers:
- Stefano Bianchi, Deputy Director General/Central Director for Migration Policies and International Mobility, DGIT
- Laurence Hart, Director of the International Organization for Migration’s Mediterranean Coordination Office, OlM
- Marta Sachy, Director, Aurora Foundation
- Cleophas Adrien Dioma, President IABW
- Stefano Gatti, Director General for Development Cooperation, DGCS
DEBT OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES. RELEASE, A WINNING PROPOSAL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT’
Where: CODEWAY EXPO 2025, Fiera Roma
When: 15 May 10:00 -11:30 | Cooperation Room – 1st floor (Hall 2)
How to participate: REGISTER FREE HERE
The proceedings will be held in English. Interpreting service will not be provided
|On Thursday 15 May, at 10 a.m., the seminar (in English): ‘Debt of African Countries. RELEASE, a winning proposal for sustainable development’. The topic will be the external debt of African countries, which represents one of the main challenges hindering development, aggravating the continent’s economic and social fragilities. Jubilee 2025 represents a unique opportunity to address this issue and to promote the Sustainable Development Goals in the most vulnerable countries. The seminar will explore solutions to reduce and reshape debt, fostering long-term sustainable investments and creating opportunities for growth, jobs and infrastructure development.
The Mattei Plan for Africa represents an important opportunity to strengthen economic relations between Italy and Africa, stimulating private investments and development projects, but only if countries are not suffocated by the burden of public debt. Reducing debt will free up resources for these investments, thus contributing to economic growth and improved living conditions.
RELEASE is an initiative with a strong impact both at the international political level, as a key step in the implementation of the ‘Financing for Development’ commitments, and in the programming and operationalisation of international cooperation, for a debt restructuring that is fair, regular, timely and efficient and enables countries to invest in the OSS.
Agenda
Moderator: Roberto Ridolfi, LINK 2007
RELEASE ZAMBIA: the case of Zambia will be presented by Roberto Ridolfi, LINK 2007
Speakers:
- Leonardo Becchetti, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (online)
- Father Giulio Albanese, Director of the Office for Social Communications and the Office for Missionary Cooperation between Churches of the Vicariate of Rome*
- Patricia Chisanga Kondolo, Ambassador of the Republic of Zambia
- Ugo Melchionda, International Consultant on Migration and Cooperation and Italian correspondent of the OECD International Migration Outlook
Diplomatic Representations of African countries have been invited to attend the event.
Planned Speakers: Sherif Dawoud, First Secretary Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
*tbc