ANNUAL POLICY REPORT 2012 immigrants - Good practices in the areas of health, welfare and social security." Moreover, under the 2010 annual program, two actions that promote the exchange of information at European level were implemented in 2012: 1) Creating a network of cooperation at local level between EU Member States and 2) Creating a collaborative network of representatives of migrant associations at European level. Finally, as part of the annual program 2011, the Ministry of Interior has published a call for proposals, that among others include the following related actions: 1) Development of a cooperation network that will interconnect representatives of Mediterranean Member States which face similar challenges in integration of third country nationals, 2) Develop collaborative network that will bring together representatives of Councils for the Migrant Integration and similar institutions of local government at EU level and representatives of migrant organizations at European level. 7.2 Exchange of Information at Regional and National levels Please describe any additional actions to provide and exchange information to support policy development at regional and national levels. These might include specific actions with national contact points or rapporteurs, and the exchange of information within the ‘regions’ of Europe, for example, amongst the Baltic States. Please also describe any (planned) sharing and exchanging of information on migration with other (Member) States, through existing networks and other instruments (e.g. the European Migration Network, the Mutual Information Mechanism (MIM)). Please also describe the involvement of EU agencies On 14 December 2012 the first National Conference of the Greek National Contact Point of the European Migration Network (EMN) was organised to strengthen the national information network. Members of the academic community, civil servants and representatives of NGOs provided an overview of immigration policy and practice in Greece and the role of Greek EMN NCP. Also, the Ministry of Interior as Head Authority for the European Integration Fund of third-country nationals in Greece, has published (in the framework of the 2011 annual program) a call to submit proposals for actions related to the training of the parties involved in the Immigrant Integration Councils in order to facilitate networking and exchange of best practices among them. 44