Wednesday 24 th March
Session III - Territorial cooperation and EGTC practices
Chaired and introduced by Antonio Papisca 9.00/12.00
White Paper on multi-level governance: ateliers and assessment
Hendrik Theunissen, Committee of the Regions, Studies Unit for the monitoring of Cross-Sector
Priorities, Brussels
Territorial social responsibility: overview and assessment of good experiences
Luigi Martignetti, Secretary General, European Network of Cities and Regions for the Social Economy
(REVES), Brussels
Territorial cooperation: overview and assessment of EGTCs
Hannes Schaffer, Executive Manager Mecca Consulting, Vienna
Setting up the Euroregion Adriatica
Diego Vecchiato, Director, Department of International Relations and Human Rights, Region of Veneto
Conclusions by Léonce Bekemans
Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence
“Intercultural Dialogue, Human Rights & Multi-level Governance”
Workshop
Multi-level Governance
of Intercultural dialogue
Padua | Palazzo del Bo | Archivio Antico
With the support of:
23-24 March 2010
Giunta Regionale
International Relations and Human Rights Department, Region of Veneto
AUSE
Associazione Universitaria di Studi Europei, AUSE
Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples
University of Padua
Via Martiri della Libertà, 2 - 35137 PADOVA - Tel +39 049 8271817 - Fax +39 049 8271816
e-mail: [email protected] - www.centrodirittiumani.unipd.it
Launching
Thematic Network Activities:
Intercultural dialogue & Multi-level governance
Tuesday 23 rd March
Solemn Session
9.00/9.30
Welcome Addresses
Giuseppe Zaccaria, Magnifico Rettore, University of Padua
Marco Mascia, Jean Monnet Chair, Director, Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights and the
Rights of Peoples, University of Padua
Léonce Bekemans, Jean Monnet Chair, Academic coordinator, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence,
University of Padua
Chaired and introduced by Antonio Papisca, Jean Monnet Chair ad honorem, University of Padua
9.30/11.30
Local governance of intercultural dialogue: prospects for 2020
Jean Monnet Public Lecture by Luc Van den Brande, former President Committee of the Regions of the EU
An experienced testimony of European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTCs)
Paul Breyne, Governor of West Flanders, Belgium
Intercultural dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean area
Joseph Mifsud, President of the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI)
Tuesday 23 rd March
Session I - Premises for governance of intercultural dialogue
Chaired and introduced by Léonce Bekemans
14.30/16.00
Cultural and value roots for intercultural dialogue
Peter Xuereb, Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law and European Integration, Chairman of
the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, University of Malta
Legal and institutional aspects of governance: cultural and value roots
Antonio Papisca
Euro-Mediterranean educational space for universal values
Joseph Mifsud
Human rights and interreligious dialogue
Enzo Pace, Chair of Three Religions, Director, Department of Sociology, University of Padua
Discussion
16.00/16.30 Break
Session II - Governance of intercultural dialogue
Chaired and introduced by Luc Van den Brande
The future of European societies between modernity and post-modernity
Dario Velo, Jean Monnet Professor, Chairman of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence,
University of Pavia
16.30/18.00
(Multi-) Governance in regional perspective
Frank Delmartino, Professor Emeritus, University of Leuven
11.30/12.00
Handing over of Jean Monnet certificates to students of the Jean Monnet Course “Globalisation and
Inclusiveness in the EU”
Local governance of intercultural dialogue
Maria Karasinska-Fendler, Research Director, European Institute in Lodz
Civil society participation in intercultural dialogue
Manuel Manonelles, Director of the Office of Barcelona Culture of Peace Foundation
Education to intercultural dialogue
Enrique Banús, Jean Monnet Professor ad personam, International University Catalunya,
Barcelona, ECSA World President
Discussion