Conferences

Found in translation. What’s next for the future of Europe?

DAY 1 27-06-22 NARRATIVES OF EUROPE IN TIMES OF CONFLICT

1Narratives of Europe in Times of Conflict Reflections on Europe between the cultural and the academic world:

Welcoming Speech – Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă, Center of European Studies SNSPA (Bucharest) OpenEU Debate member

● Andrey Kurkov, President of PEN Ukraine (online intervention)
● Magda Cârneci, Writer, cultural activist (PEN Romania)
● Luis Bouza Garcia, Associate Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain / OpenEUDebate member
Moderator: Radu Vancu, Writer, Associate Professor, “Lucian Blaga” University Sibiu, Romania / President PEN Romania)

Venue: The Garden of the National Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest

DAY 2 28-06-22 FOUND IN TRANSLATION: WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE FUTURE O EUROPE?

Venue: Apollo 111 Theatre, Bucharest – indoor – 23rd Ion Brezoianu Street

With an intervention by Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi in the theatre lobby

9.30-10.00 Welcoming Coffee & Registration

10.00-10.30 Official Welcoming Speeches
● Prof.univ. Iordan Bărbulescu, President of the Senate SNSPA (Bucharest)
● Prof.univ. Elena Garcia Guitian, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid – Project coor-dinator of OpenEUdebate Network

10.30-11.00 – What’s next for the Future of Europe?
● H.E. Laurence Auer, Ambassador of France to Romania
● Eliza Vaș, European Institute of Romania – “The Conference on the Future of Eu-rope. Views from Romanian citizens”

11.00-11.30 – Found in translation? Results of the Open EU Debate Network – Collage of our project’s main activities 2019-2022 – all Project and Scientific team mem-bers

11.30-11.45 Coffee break

11.45-13.00 Opening Keynote Speech

Prof.univ. dr. Francisco Aldecoa Luzárraga (Universidad Complutense Madrid/ President European Movement, Spain)
Moderator: Prof.univ. dr. Iordan Bărbulescu, (President of the Senate, SNSPA, Bucharest / OpenEUDebate member)
Q&A session – Panel reactions to the Keynote speech – members of OpenEUdebate Scien-tific Committee

14.30-16.30 Europe’s Most Burning Topics – A Hands-on Approach

● A new economic consensus after the Covid Crisis – Dr. Roy Cobby (King’s College London, United Kingdom)

● Illiberal tendencies in CEE and Russia’s aggression – Dr. Ruxandra Ivan (University of Bucharest, Romania)

● 15 years of Romania’s EU membership and the way forward – Andrei Țărnea (Di-rector, Communication and Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania)

Moderator: Dr. Ramona Coman (President of the Institute for European Studies at the Uni-versité Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium / OpenEUDebate member)

17.30-19.00 Closing Keynote Discussion: Europe’s geopolitical re-awakening – A new role for South East Europe?

– Dr. Claudia Wiesner (Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science at Fulda Uni-versity of Applied Sciences, Germany)

– Dr. Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă, PhD (SNSPA, Romania / OpenEUDebate member)

– Dr. Hatidža Jahić, PhD (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Moderator – Dr. Taru Haapala (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / OpenEUDebate member)

"THE EUROPE WE WANT, THE EUROPE WE NEED"

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On 20th March 2019 took place the first conference

Opening session of our event in Brussels – «The Europe We Want. The Europe We Need», hosted by ULB – Université libre de Bruxelles.
We have the pleasure to listen to the speeches of Caroline Pauwels (Rector of VUB – Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Judith le Maire (Vice Rector of VUB), Elena Garcia Guitian (Director of OpenEUDebate, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid UAM) & Charles Picque (President of Parlement bruxellois – Brussels Parlement).
A lively discussion on the role of the youth in shaping the #FutureOfEurope.