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Thursday 28 August 2008

During the day Individual arrival of participants in Frankfurt (Oder), Accreditation Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)
 
12:30 Meeting Green Future Team Viadrina University
 


14:00-18:00




14:00-19:00
14:00-17:30
14:00-17:00
14:00-18:00
16:00-17:30

14:30-17:30




17:30-19:30
Afternoon - Different parallel activities

Sports
a) Football tournament (mixed teams only)
b) Other sporting activities

Excursions
Canoe tour on the river Oder
Slubfort city tour
Nature Walking Tour "Natura 2000"
Bike tour "Bridging the gaps"
City tours

Training & workshops
Public Speaking Seminar - die gute Rede (Green Campus) - in German
Thinking Green Economy (Green Economic Institute)

Negotiation and decision making in environmental
conflicts (FYEG)
Public Speaking Seminar (Green Campus) - in English
Island "Ziegenwerder"
in the river Oder

Meeting point: in front of the Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building




Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)

 
19:30-22:00

21:30
"Cooking Event" - your recipes

Open air cinema: "Nömadak tx"
Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)
"Ziegenwerder"


Friday 29 August 2008


08:00-10:00
08:30-12:30
08:30-13:30
09:00-12:30
09:00-12:30
09:30-13:00

10:00-11:30
Political and cultural tours
- Bird Watching Tour
- Bike tour "Bridging the gaps"
- Canoe tour on the river Oder
- Coal mining bus tour "Living at the edge of destruction"
- GMO bus tour "GMO meets Bio" (including lunch)
- Solar cell production in Frankfurt/Oder
- Slubfort city tour
- City tour
Different locations
Meeting point: in front of the Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building

 
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)
 
14:30-16:30

















15:30-16:45
Workshops
  • Educating Europe
  • Zero tolerance towards violence against women
  • Green Lifestyle - But where are the Greens?
  • 5 steps towards a social Europe - different...
  • Food or Fuels?
  • Rightwing Extremism in Europe
  • Dynamising youth participation through active campaigning
  • Ghosts of Soviet Nuclear
  • International Financial (Dis)Order
  • Greens in Eastern European Countries
  • Greens and Campaigning
  • Green Digital Rights Policy
  • Decent work, decent life
  • Persepolis - the animated film by Marjane Satrapi
  • Green Academics bridging the gaps
  • NATO and the EU
Book Readings
  • Book reading and discussion with the author Dorota Maslowska
Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)
&
Collegium Polonicum
15:30-16:45 Euronews debate

Public TV recording yith Ondrej Liska (Minister of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic)
and Piotr Serafin (Minister, Undersecretary of State of European Integration)
Viadrina University
 
17:00-19:30 Opening Plenary
(interpretation: EN, FR, DE, PL)
What Future for Europe?
Welcome by:
Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group)
Interventions by:
- Gesine Schwan (President of the Europa-Universität Viadrina)
- Claus Leggewie (German political scientist)
- Sylvie Goulard (Chairwoman European Movement France)
- Adam Krzeminski (Polish journalist and
publicist)
Viadrina University
(Auditorium maximum)
 
as of 20:00

During the
day and
evening
Reception, buffet dinner with live music: 'Eurofighter'

Film Projection: "Esmas Secret"
Concert hall
Frankfurt/Oder
 


Saturday 30 August 2008

09:30-11:30 Plenary Session

Climate Change: "From Bali to Poznan to Copenhagen"

(interpretation: EN, FR, DE, PL)
Moderation: Rebecca Harms (Vice-President Greens/EFA)
Keynote speeches:
- Sivan Kartha (Senior Scientist at the Stockholm Institute, US Centre)
- Oras Tynkkynen (Special advisor to the Prime Minister
Viadrina University
(Auditorium maximum)
 
11:45-13:30













12:30-13:30

13:45-14:45
Workshops
  • A new treaty between young and old
  • The role of the EU in International Natural Resource Governance
  • Arts and Culture and (Green) politics
  • Language policy - Esperanto
  • Struggle over resource factors for international crisis
  • Fight Discrimination - Act Together
  • Green cities
  • Strategies to tackle gender discrimination in the workplace
  • Asylum & Integration
  • Greening EU farm and food policy
  • Nuclear profileration - Siamese Twins: the Reactor and the Bomb
  • Young Green professionals
Book Readings
'Herztier' Book reading and discussion with the author Herta Müller

'Die Brücke von Istanbul' Book reading and discussion with the author Geert Mak
Viadrina University (Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building) &
Collegium Polonicum















Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)
 
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)
 
13:30-16:00 Workshop - Persepolis - the animated film by Marjane Satrapi Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)
15:00-16:45

















14:30-15:30


15:45-16:45
Workshops
  • Fair trade: Challenges of going mainstream
  • Which visions for a better life? (How do we live, how do we love, how do we move?)
  • The iron curtain trail - sustainable memory, sustainable tourism
  • Cohesion or Collusion? EU and EIB Funding in CEE
  • GMOs and Pesticides: what is at stake in the EU?
  • ERENE European community for renewable energy
  • The Green access to internet
  • Strategies against social dumping
  • Sports and Politics - taking stock after the Olympic games
  • How to improve citizen support for the European project in the aftermath of the Irish Referendum
  • Step by Step: Western Balkans on the way to the EU
  • Limits of Privatization: Finanze, the market and services of general interest
Book Readings
'Mutluluk' Book reading and discusson with the author Zülfü Livanelli

'Mein Europa' Book reading and discussion with the author Yuriy Andrukhovych
Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)
&
Collegium Polonicum
















Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)
 
17:00-19:00 Plenary Session

Social Europe in a globalised world

(interpretation: EN, FR, DE, PL)
Moderation: Jean Lambert (Greens/EFA)
Keynote speeches:
- Tarja Cronberg (Finish Minister of Labour) - T. Sarath Fernando (NGO Monlar, Sri Lanka)
- Frank Bsirske (Chair of ver.di, Services Trade Union)
Debate
Collegium Polonicum
19:30-20:30 Debate: The current situation in Georgia: Impacts in the region and on the political environment
- George Gachechiladze (Secretary General of the Green Party of Georgia) - Cem Özdemir, MEP
Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)
 
20:00-22:00 Dinner Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)
 
22:00

During the
day and
evening
Party with Nous Non Plus, DJ Team "Plenske und Kowalski" (unclesallys) und DJ Kristian Auth

Film Projections
Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)


Sunday 31 August 2008

09:30-11:00 'Cultural breakfast'
with Hertha Müller (author), Regina Bittner (Bauhaus Dessau), Frank Wolff ('Eurofighter'), Tarja Cronberg (Finnish Minister of Labour)

Presentation of ideas, visions and conclusions of the workshops and plenary sessions

Presentation of the Green Future Team
Viadrina University
(Gräfin-Dönhoff-Building)
11:00-13:00 Closing plenary

A new Europe - we can build it!


Input: Green Future Team
Interventions by:
- Monica Frassoni (Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group)
- Ulrike Lunacek (Co-Spokesperson of the European Green Party)
- Reinhard Bütikofer (Co-Party Leader German Greens)
- Deidre de Burca (Irish Green Senator)
- Pierre Jonckheer (MEP, Vice president of the Greens/EFA Group, Co-President of the European Green Institute)

Concluding speech:
Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group)
Viadrina University
(Auditorium maximum)
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The event is being organised by the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament in cooperation with the European Green Party, the German and the Polish Green Party, the European Green Institute and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

The conference language is English. Plenary sessions will offer English, French, German and Polish interpretation.


If you have questions or remarks on the European Green Summer University you can contact the Project Team by writing an Email to greens.contact.su@europarl.europa.eu