for the Participation Day on 28th of October, 2015.

Moderation: Jörg Mirtl, Coordination of the Danube Local Actors Platform (D-LAP)

• 09.00-09.20 Welcome words / Interactive opening. Carmen Stadelhofer, President ILEU e.V. [video]
• 09.20-10.00 Opening address [video]
  Gisela Erler, State Counsellor for Civil Society and Civic Participation of the State Government Baden-Württemberg
  Stefan August Lütgenau, President of Danube Civil Society Forum
• 10.00-10.20 Plenary lecture “Participation and Civil Society in South-East of Europe“ [video]
  Jan W. van Deth, Professor of Political Science and International Comparative Social Research, Mannheim University
• 10.20-10.40 Plenary lecture “Latvia 2030: strategic dilemmas, content and parliamentary acceptance as consequences of citizens’ participation” [video]
  Roberts Ķīlis, Associate professor, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
• 10.40-11.00 Coffee break
• 11.00-11.45 Experience from the field:
  1. Lively historic urban landscape. Sonja Jilek / Matthias Rip [video]
  2. Regaining nature in urban areas. Srdjan Stankovic [video]
  3. Health and social care in villages. Ecaterina Mardarovici [video]
• 11.45-12.15 Plenary discussion / Introduction to the working groups
  
• 12.15-13.30 Lunch
• 13.30-14.00 Guided tour of the poster exhibition and NGO stalls
• 14.00-16.00 Working groups - Moderated by Axel Flinker, agonda Dialog- und Zukunftsprozesse [video]
  
  1. Social entrepreneurship. Srdjan Stankovic / Tobias Faltermeier
  2. Participation and governance. Stefan August Lütgenau / Anders Bergström / Iva Taralezhkova
     
  3. Lifelong learning for individual benefit and social participation. Carmen Stadelhofer / Dusana Findeisen
  4. Financing. Daniela Stojković / Aleksandar M. Gajić
  5. Open data. Simon Vrečar
  6. Participation and civil society and Ukraine. Igor Studennikov
  7. Media. Alexis Andrija / Sabine Geller
  8. Small towns and cultural landscapes. Valerie Carter
  9. Roma and vulnerable groups. Tina Bing / Gabriele Gottschall
  10. Danube Social Service & Education Cluster. Martin Ivanov / Stefan Barth
  11. Youth. Iryna Gumenchuk / Maksym Altunin
  12. Migration. Anna Ditta / Mattia Brazzale
• 16.00-16.30 Coffee break
• 16.30-17.00 Key word reports from the Working groups
  
• 17.00-17.15 Resolution of the Participation Day 2015 [video]
  Stefan August Lütgenau, President of the Danube Civil Society Forum
  Jörg Mirtl, Coordination of the Danube Local Actors Platform (D-LAP) /
• 17.15-17.45 Closing panel [video]
  Kurt Puchinger, Priority Area Coordinator, Priority Area 10 of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region
  Gisela Erler, State Counsellor for Civil Society and Civic Participation of the State Government Baden-Württemberg

Social evening

• 19.30 -20.00 Welcome [video]
  from Peter Friedrich, Minister for the the Bundesrat, Europe and International Affairs, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  with
  Ivo Gönner, Lord Mayor of Ulm and Christoph Dahl, Executive Director of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
  Moderated by Werner Schempp, Director, International Affairs and Protocol, State Ministry Baden-Württemberg
• from 20.00 Conference buffet
  
• 20.30 Music and dance with the group Saitenspringer
  
• 21.00 United Urban Jazzcats with the singer Siyou Isabelle Ngnoubamdjum, Joe Fessele piano, Uli Kuhn bass, Gunter Czisch on drums