Two webinars, one question: how do you make international talent stay?
Thursday March 12th is shaping up to be a key date for everyone working on international talent retention in Europe. Two separate webinars, two different networks, but a shared urgency: understanding why internationals leave — and what regions, cities and employers can concretely do to make them stay.
11:00 CET — European Talent Mobility Forum: the uncomfortable truth about retention
The first appointment, from 11:00 to 12:00 CET, is hosted by the European Talent Mobility Forum and facilitated by Future Place Leadership. The webinar — titled “How to make internationals stay?” — features Nicole Zwetsloot, Program Manager at Brainport Eindhoven, who will address a trend that is becoming increasingly hard to ignore: internationals are leaving Europe earlier than expected, often earlier than they themselves had planned.
The session will tackle inclusion and diversity as a critical and underestimated factor in retention: how to measure whether internationals genuinely feel at home, what barriers exist in career and social integration, and what role employers and governments should play. The Forum brings together some of Europe’s most active regions on talent attraction — Brainport Eindhoven, Lithuania, Bilbao, Emilia-Romagna, cities in Sweden and more. ART-ER participates in this network as part of its broader mission to support international talent through it-ER – International Talents Emilia-Romagna. Registration is free via the European Talent Mobility Forum channels.
10:00 CET — Harnessing Talent Platform: the EU shares what works
Earlier the same morning, from 10:00 to 12:00 CET, the European Commission’s Harnessing Talent Platform hosts a knowledge-sharing webinar presenting the final outputs of the four Working Groups of the Talent Booster Mechanism (TBM). This is a programme designed to help European regions build stronger capacity to attract, retain and develop talent — and ART-ER contributed directly to it, as a member of the Research & Innovation working group.
The session is structured around three thematic blocks: innovation and digitalisation for talent development, skills for the future, and inclusion and quality of life as drivers of retention. Each block presents practical tools, policy recommendations and good practices developed collectively by regions and organizations from across the EU — ready to be applied at territorial level.
This webinar is one in a growing series through which the Platform will progressively present the results of the Talent Booster Mechanism programme.
For information: secretariat@harnessingtalentplatform.eu
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