Wednesday,
23 November 2011 | |
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13:00 – 19:00 | Closed session of member cities including the meeting of the Steering Committee |
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19:30 – 20:15 | Social Cohesion Award presented by the City of Ghent
City Hall, Pacificatiezaal, Botermarkt 1, Ghent |
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20:30 | Reception with drinks and snacks
City Hall, Pacificatiezaal, Botermarkt 1, Ghent |
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Thursday,
24 November 2011 | |
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09:30 – 12:30 | Opening Session of the General ConferenceWelcome
Daniël Termont
Mayor of Ghent
Dr. Hans Hesselmann
President of ECCAR (Nuremberg)
Keynote address
Nils Muiznieks
Chair of the European Commission Against Racism and
Intolerance of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg)
Moderator:
Helena Rojas-Lundgren
Vice-President of ECCAR (Botkyrka) |
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10:30 – 12:30 | Round TablePartnerships for empowerment
Panel debate and plenary discussion with
Louis-George Tin, Chair of the Committee of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (Paris)
Anne-Sophie Parent, Secretary General of the AGE Platform Europe (Brussels)
Javier Güemes, Acting director of the European Disability Forum (Brussels)
Brigitte Triems, President of the European Women’s Lobby
(Brussels)
Representative of ECCAR
Moderator:
Jozef De Witte
Director of the Belgian Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism; Member of the Executive Board of the European Network of Equality Bodies (Brussels) |
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12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
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14:00 – 19:00 | Parallel working groups
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Working Group 1: | Building partnerships – cooperating with the media in combating Islamophobia and Romaphobia
Coordination: Botkyrka, Ghent, Malmö |
Working Group 2 | Building partnerships – promoting equality and social cohesion through cultural cooperation and education
Coordination: Botkyrka, Çair, Karlsruhe |
Working Group 3: | Building partnerships – anti-discrimination work in individual cases
Coordination: Ghent, UNESCO |
Working Group 4: | Building partnerships – challenging racism through sports
Coordination: Ghent, Graz, Liège, Malmö |
Working Group 5: | Building partnerships – young people in cooperation with ECCAR
Coordination: Botkyrka, Çair, Nuremberg |
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Friday,
25 November 2011 | |
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09:00 – 12:30 | Closing session of the General Conference |
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09:00 – 11:00 | Round TableRecommendations from the working groups – confronting discrimination
Interactive panel debate and plenary discussion with working group rapporteurs and
Naima Charkaoui, Director of the Minorities Forum in Flanders and Brussels (Brussels)
Doudou Diène, President of the European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion (EMISCO); former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (Paris)
Ivan Ivanov, Executive Director of the European Roma Information Office (Brussels)
Korrie Louwes, Alderman of Labour, Higher Education, Innovation and Participation (Rotterdam)
Moderator:
Jean-Paul Makengo
Vice-President of ECCAR (Toulouse) |
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11:00 – 12:30 | Implementing the Ten-Point-Plan of Action –
presentation of the evaluation results of member cities’ reportsPower-point-presentation
Marcello Scarone Azzi
Programme Specialist, Fight against Discrimination and Racism Section, Division of Human Rights, Human Security and Philosophy, Social and Human Sciences Sector, UNESCO (Paris)
Veronika Fikfak
Assistant Programme Specialist, Fight against Discrimination and Racism Section, Division of Human Rights, Human Security and Philosophy, Social and Human Sciences Sector, UNESCO
(Paris)
Discussion |
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12:30 – 12:45 | Final words
Daniël Termont
Mayor of Ghent
Dr. Hans Hesselmann
President of ECCAR (Nuremberg) |
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13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
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13:00 – 14:30 | Sharing experiences and good practices – marketplace of ideas |
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14:30 – 16:30 | Guided tours to intercultural projects of the City of Ghent |
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14:30 – 16:30 | Meeting of the Steering Committee |
