Date: 19.11.2012 (Mo.)
Time: 09:30 – 20:00
Place: Centrum Nauki Kopernik, ul. Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 20, Warszawa
Participation: registration
Simultaneously translated in English and Polish

“MORE EUROPE” is a civic cultural initiative that seeks to highlight and reinforce the role of culture in the external relations of the European Union. This edition of More Europe takes place in the capital of Poland, the biggest country among the so called “new” EU Member States and a very active player in the field of cultural co-operation with countries outside the European Union, notably the Eastern Partnership area. Poland acts as a “bridge” between the West and the East in terms of politics, the economy and culture, and puts special emphasis on strengthening civil societies through culture. The Warsaw debate will focus on ways in which culture can contribute to the development of a European cultural identity through the activities of civil societies inside and outside the EU. It will also look at the structures needed to support this process, and present insights of artists and NGOs from outside the EU.

Conference Programme:

9.00-9.30 Registration

9.30 Opening

Robert Firmhofer (PL) – Director of the Copernicus Science Center
Monika Smoleń (PL) – Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Andrzej Cieszkowski (PL) – Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Eastern Partnership
Sana Ouchtati (BE) – Project Director of More Europe External Cultural Relations initiative in Belgien
Martin van Dijk (NL) – President of EUNIC Cluster Warsaw 2012/2013

10:00 – 12:00 Main panel “More Europe” in and outside the EU. What role can culture play?

Jerzy Hausner (PL) – Professor of Cracow University of Economics, former Minister of Economic Affairs
Michał Merczyński (PL) – Director of National Audiovisual Institute „NInA”
Paweł Potoroczyn (PL) – Director of Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Jan Truszczyński (PL) – Director General for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, European Commission
Moderator: Adam Krzemiński (PL) – Journalist of „Polityka”

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break

12:30 – 14:00 2 PARALLEL SESSIONS

1. Session: Participation of civil societies in political and cultural processes in the EU

Piotr Choroś (PL) – Founder of Homo Faber Foundation Lublin and representative of the City of Lublin
Rikke Forchhammer (DK) – Head of Krogerup Højskole and leader of Baobab Singers
Alek Tarkowski (PL) – Internet sociologist, Director of Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska
Kuba Wygnański (PL) – Representative of the Unit for Social Innovation and Research
– Shipyard (Pracownia Badań i Innowacji Społecznych Stocznia)
Rarita Zbranca (RO) – Director of AltArt Foundation Romania, member of the Strategy Group of “A Soul for Europe“
Moderator: Agata Diduszko-Zyglewska (PL) – Member of the Initiative Warszawa 2020 and president of the Society Pasaż Antropologiczny

2. Session: Culture in the EU external relations: appropriate structures, instruments and resources

Delphine Borione (FR) – General Director of the Cultural Department in the French Foreign Ministry and President of EUNIC Global
Krzysztof Czyżewski (PL) – Art Director of Wrocław 2016, Pogranicze Foundation
Jean-Pierre Deru (WB) – Director of the Association Marcel Hicter pour la Démocratie culturelle
Włodzimierz Paszyński (PL) – Deputy Mayor of the City of Warsaw
Gottfried Wagner (A) – Special envoy for international cultural-political projects, Austrian Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture and initiator of the “More Europe” debates
Moderator: Agata Etmanowicz (PL) – Expert on cultural management

14:00 – 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 – 16:30 2 PARALLEL SESSIONS

3. Session: Culture as an instrument to strengthen civil societies in the neighboring Eastern Partnership countries
Kateryna Botanova (UA) – Director of the Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv
Christiane Erharter (A) – Culture Programme of the ERSTE Stiftung
Peter Inkei (HU) – Director of the Budapest Observatory
Krzysztof Stanowski (PL) – President of the Solidarity Fund PL
Moderator: Gabriele Lesser (D) – Journalist

4. Session: Direct culture. Art to the people!

Michał Bieniek (PL) – Wrocław Art Foundation ART TRANSPARENT
Suzana Milevska (FYROM) – Professor of history and theory of art at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje
Lada Nakonechna (UA) – REP, artistic group established during Orange Revolution
Marina Naprushkina (BY) – Artist
Yuriy Vulkovsky (BG) – member of the Strategy Group of “A Soul for Europe”, cultural policy researcher and lecturer at the Sofia University
Moderator: Igor Stokfiszewski (PL) – Journalist and member of „Krytyka Polityczna”

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 – 17:45: Final panel of the Moderators
Moderator: Edwin Bendyk (PL) – Journalist

18:00 Reception: Closing reception offered by the City of Warsaw
Interpreting: the entire conference will be interpreted into Polish and English
Rejestracja/Registration:
prosimy o rejestrowanie się do dnia 12 listopada 2012, pod adresem:
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Informacja/Info:
prosimy o kontakt z /please contact at:
moreeurope@austria.org.pl; 0048 22 526 88 00
19-go listopada Centrum Nauki Kopernik, ul. Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 20, będzie otwarte od godziny 8:30
Doors open at the Copernicus Science Center, Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 20 Str., at 8.30 am on 19 November

Partners and Sponsors:
The Conference is co-organized by the Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw, the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) Warsaw and the Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny „NInA” and has been made possible thanks to the support of Erste Stiftung, the More Europe -External Cultural Relations Initiative, the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Art Animacje Association, College d’Europe Natolin, the European Academy of Diplomats Warsaw and the Representation of the European Commission in Warsaw.

Honorary Patronage:
Bogdan Zdrojewski (PL) – Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage
Radosław Sikorski (PL) – Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs
MEP Jerzy Buzek (PL) – Former EP President
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (PL) – The Mayor of The City of Warsaw

PROGRAM po polsku / PROGRAMME in English

Short biographies and abstracts of the participants