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FOCUS E :

Education and training: to developp the intelligenceand the know-how of 21st-century's Europe

The previous focus show it. The scale and complexity of the challenges the EU has to facet in the following decades are changing: from now on it will be about managing a multicultural and multilingual continent with a highly complex society subject to very rapid changes, particularly technological ones, and in constant interaction with the rest of the planet. Ability to manage complexity, to anticipate changes, to work in a multicultural environment, to master the new tools and processes of democracy, … these are some of the skills that hundreds of thousands of European executives will have to acquire between now and the end of the decade; and some of the pieces of knowledge that millions of citizens will have to be familiar with. In almost each of these fields there is still a lot to be done and today the EU has to cope with an immense lack of executives trained to manage the European complexity (as regards politics, the media, administration or education) and a lack of citizens able to influence in an active and constructive way on its evolutions.

Moderator - Reporter

Mr Dan LUCA
Member of the Newropeans Student Team;
Director, European House, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

- THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER 2000 -

14.00 - 15.00

Opening Session :

	Mr Jack LANG, French Minister of Education

	Mr Philippe BUSQUIN, Advisor to the European Commission Intervention : 'Science in the frame of Europe's culture'

15.00 - 16.00

Debate/Questions

16.00 - 17.15

PANEL E1: Democratising the access to Europe : a challenge in education and training

	Mr Gabor KOLUMBAN, President, Chambre des Régions de la Commission Culture et Education du Congrès des Pouvoirs Locaux et Régionaux de l'Europe (CPLRE)/ EU Council Intervention : 'The challenge of cultural difference in the vocational and management training of adults in Eastern Europe'

	Mr Patrick LA PRAIRIE, Journalist Ouest-France (First French newspaper in terms of sells); Chargé de mission Press-School, France Intervention : 'Les élèves donnent une devise à l'Europe'

	*Mr Michael SHIELS, Director, European School of Educational Management, Cork, Ireland Intervention : 'Education for Europe'*

- FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER 2000 -

09.30 - 13.00

PANEL E2 : Training the citizens and decision-makers of a continental and multicultural democracy of 500 million people (needs, methods, ...)

	*Mrs Hélène AHRWEILER*, Former Rector of the Academy of Paris, France Intervention : 'Apprendre à apprendre'

	*Mrs Maria GINTOWT-JANKOWICZ*, Director, KSAP, Poland Intervention : 'La formation de l'avenir: un double défi pour les pays de l'Europe centrale et orientale'

	*Mr Basarab NICOLESCU*, Physicist-Theorist, CNRS; University Paris VI; President of CIRET Intervention : 'Vers une éducation transdisciplinaire, transculturelle et transreligieuse'

	Mrs Anne-Marie REVCO, Director Delegate Innovation, Directorate for International Relations, French Ministry of Research Intervention : 'Vulnérabilité des démocraties, emprise ou maîtrise des nouvelles technologies : comment construire le XXI° siècle'

	Mr Klaus WERNER, Head of division 'Work and Social Policy', European Court of Auditors, Luxemburg Intervention : 'Organiser l'espace européen de la connaissance (innovation des méthodes et des outils, la mobilité étudiante): le nouvel horizon des politiques communautaires d'éducation'

In parallel to the plenary session: 11.30 - 13.00
EU-Student Vote/ University internet vote: electing online the European student representatives for the European institutions

	Ms Mélanie BLANCHARD, Election.com

	Mr Philippe DOREY, Teacher/ Researcher, Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci; Consultant, France

	Mr Régis JAMIN, President, Election.com Europe

	Mrs Laurence MONNOYER-SMITH, Researcher, Equipe Espace Public européen, Laboratoire de Communication Politique, CNRS, France

	Mr Franck BIANCHERI, President of Prometheus-Europe, Founder of AEGEE-Europe

14.30 - 17.00

PANEL E3: A Europe open to the world : the partnerships of the EU with the rest of the world in the field of education (EU/US, EU/Latin America, EU/Asia, EU/Med, EU/Africa)

In Partnership with

	Mr Patrick GALLAUD, General Secretary, Fédération mondiale des Associations, Centres et Clubs UNESCO (FMACU), UNESCO House, France Intervention : 'Le rôle éducatif des ONG en Europe'

	Mr Francisco MARMOLEJO, Executive Director, Consortium for Nothern America Higher Education, US Intervention : 'Global trends and Universities. Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Higher Education Collaboration : the case in North America'

	Mr Brian MURPHY, Director, European Center, Georgia University, Atlanta

	Mr Tapio VARIS, Teacher, University of Tampere, President of GUS-Finland Intervention : 'Educational and Learning Goals of the Global University System (GUS)'

Parallèlement à la séance plénière: 16.00 - 17.00
A quoi ressembleront les réseaux étudiants européens des années 2000/2010 ? (objectifs, stratégie, structure et méthode)
Un mini-séminaire limité à 60 participants, en langue anglaise.