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"Building Bridges of Democracy: Civil Society in 2010"
Conference programme

"Civil Society in 2010" is a joint conference of Austrian and East Central European NGOs under the patronage of the CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and the CIVICUS European Regional Office (Budapest). The conference offers a current status quo about the development and perspectives of organised civil society in Europe and especially discusses the needs for democracy and democratisation, with a look towards the future EU member countries and planned procedures of the European Union Institutions.

Thursday, 05.06.2003: get together on the Danube, MS VINDOBONA, Vienna
 
19:00 Kumi Naidoo
General Secretary of CIVICUS International, Johannesburg		 Welcome, introduction: Civil Society in 2010
 
19:30 Ambassador Dr. Emil Brix
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Vienna		 Perspectives of Civil Society?
 
Friday, 06.06.2003: Arts Cult Center, Vienna
 
09:00 Univ-Doz. Dr. Jürgen Nautz
University of Vienna and Kassel		 Introduction:
The History of Civil Society in Austria
 
10:30 Gojko Bezovan,
CERANEO, Croatia
Irma Meznaric
Office of the Prime Minister, Slovenia
Istvan Sebesteny
Civitalis Association, Hungary		 Co-operation models for Civil Society in Eastern Europe.

Opportunity for discussion and statements
 
12:30 Buffet  
 
13:30 Dr. Thomas Roithner
Peace-centre Burg Schlaining		 Europe as a Peace-keeping power?
Strategies for the departure into the 21st. century.
 
14:30 Jens Mofina and Hans Hagedorn
Cit&Bits, Berlin		 E-Democracy for the future?
Developments in interavtive participation.
 
15:30 Franz Nahrada
Labor G.I.V.E., Vienna		 New opportunities for education and learning for the future Civil Society
 
16:00 Barbara Waschmann
ASF Austrian Social Forum, Wien		 From Seattle to Porto Allegre. Cooporation of civil society in social foras.
 
16:30 Christiana Weidel and Miklos Barabasl
The World of NGOs, Vienna and Director of CIVICUS in Europe, Budapest		 Summary of the day, by the conference organisers.
 
Saturday, 07.06.2003
 
09:00 "Networking" breakfast and presentations from the NGOs of EU and East Central Europe "Database meets database", opportunities of the information society, common data-bank for NGOs in Europe
 
10:00 Round Table of experts.
Input: Patrick de Bucquois
CEDAG, European Council for Voluntary Organisations, Brussels: Structuring the civil dialogue in Europe
Moderator: Christiana Weidel
The World of NGOs, Vienna		 Democratisation of Democracy?
Global governance, subsidiarity, European Convent, enlargement and other challenges for the EU.
 
12:30 Miklos Barabas and Christiana Weidel
The organiser, Budapest and Vienna		 Looking forward and goodbye
 
13:00 End of the Conference  
 

The conference "Civil society in 2010" shall act as a continuative event in regard of civil society cooperation in the extended European Union:

1.An opportunity for discussion and creation of a common terminology for the third sector by means of: workshops, mailing-lists, virtual discussion fora. All participants are inviteted to use these opportunities for discussion.

2.A databank is going to gather and integrate all organizations interested in the process of European integration in the canditate countries.

We are looking forward to your participation:

  • to establish communication and discussion about current issues and topics
  • to create an all-embracing network of civil society
  • to foster cooperation
Registration:
Participation will be free of charge, but registration required.
Online registration possible: www.ngo.at/civilsociety.

The World of NGOs
Christiana Weidel, Karsten Wiedemann
Spiegelgasse 8/5, A-1010 Wien/Vienna
Tel. ++43-1-513 17 28
Fax: ++43-1-512 60 89
office@ngo.at
http://www.ngo.at

Conference langugages:
German and English

  CIVICUS European Regional Office, Budapest - Tel.: (36-1) 356-8440 - Fax: (36-1) 356-8499 - Email: office@civicusineurope.org