European Youth Summit Warsaw, 15-16 May 2005

Draft Agenda

15 May 2005

9.00: Welcome
Chair: Bettina Schwarzmayr – Vice-President of European Youth Forum

Guests: Terry Davis, Secretary General, Council of Europe
Representative of the Polish Authorities
Jan Figel, Member of the European Commission
Giovanni Di Stasi, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe

9.30: Making democracy work ( plenary session )
Chair: Miroslavas Monkevicius – Advisory Council on Youth, CoE

Guests: Lech Walesa*, Nobel Peace Prize winner, first president of the Third Republic of Poland

11.00: Break

11.30: Introduction to working groups and to the campaign (plenary session)
Chair: Bettina Schwarzmayr -– Vice-President of European Youth Forum

12.00: Working groups

No	Title	Chair:	Room
WG1	REBORN DEMOCRACY	Mariana Turcan EYF	195
WG2	ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP: REACTION OR ACTION?	Monika Novosadova AC	176
WG3	EUROPE WITHOUT DIVIDING LINES, PRETENTS OR REALITY?	Oliver Wagner AC	179
WG4	YOUR PAPER, (PLEASE)!	Mariam Yassin AC	217
WG5	IS IT PROHIBITET TO PROHIBIT?	Leif Holmberg EYF	101

13.30 – 15.30: Schuman’s parade

16.00: Working groups - continuation

17.30: Report – feedback from working groups (plenary session)

18.30: End of working day

16 May 2005

9.00:Endorsement of the Youth Declaration
Chair: Renaldas Vaisbrodas – President of the European Youth Forum

9.30: All different – All equal; young people changing attitudes (plenary session)
Chair: Michaela Pavlisova – Advisory Council on Youth, CoE

Lord Russell-Johnston, Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Youth and Sport of the Parliamentary Assembly
Karin Scheele*, MEP Austria
Representative of the NGO Liaison Committee

11.00: Break

11.30: working groups

No	Title	Chair:	Room
WG1	SOLIDARITY: TO FEEL GOOD OR TO DO GOOD? 1 – SOLIDARITY IN EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL SOCIETIES 2 - GLOBAL SOLIDARITY	Marta Escribano EYF	176
WG2		Yasemin Uyar AC	179
WG3	DIVERSITY: BASIS FOR UNITY?	Peter Torp EYF	195
WG4	YOUTH ORGANISATIONS: TAKING HUMAN RIGHTS A STEP FURTHER?	Vladimir Davcev AC	217
WG5	YOUTH RESPONSES TO VIOLENCE	Hiroshima Mandee EYF	101

13.00: Lunch break

14.00: Working groups

16.00: Break

16.30: Reports – feedback from working groups (plenary session)
Chair: Bettina Schwarzmayr - EYF, Giuseppe Porcaro -AC

17.30: General remarks (plenary session)
Chair: Bettina Schwarzmayr EYF, Giuseppe Porcaro - AC

18.30: Closing session

Guest: Miroslaw Sawicki, Minister of Education and Sport of Poland

(* to be confirmed)