Programm des 2. Zivilgesellschaftsforums EU-Russland in Warschau

Der Ablauf des 2. Treffens des Forums am 1./2. Dezember in Warschau ist vom Steering Committee, dem der DRA angehört, beschlossen worden. Die offizielle Bewerbungsfrist zur Teilnahme-Anmeldung ist am 15.10. ausgelaufen. Jedoch können sich Interessenten noch als Beobachter oder potentielle Mitglieder des Forums bewerben, sofern die Organisatoren in Warschau noch über Kapazitäten verfügen. Details siehe www.eu-russia-csf.org.

European Union–Russia Civil Society Forum:

A Second Conference

Warsaw, Poland

1–2 December 2011

TENTATIVE AGENDA

(as of 15 October 2011)

Introduction

Civil society actors from across Europe and Russia will gather on 1-2 December, 2011 in Warsaw, Poland, for a second conference of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum. The founding meeting of the Forum took place in March 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic. The founding documents of the Forum were discussed and adopted there, four thematic working groups were formed as the main vehicles of the CSF activities, and the Steering Committee was elected.

The Forum is seen by its founding members as a venue to facilitate interactions between civil society organisations in the EU and Russia and as a platform to develop a joint agenda , to agree on civil society's positions and recommendations on pressing issues of social and political development across the continent and advance them in a dialogue with representatives of the governments and the EU institutions , and to support networking, exchanges, and implementation of joint initiatives and projects at the horizontal level. The Forum was not conceived as a formal institution; instead, it should be regarded as a framework for enhanced cooperation, and an informal “meeting place” for joint action.

The main goals of the CSF second conference in Warsaw are seen as identifying a clearer mandate and modalities of activities of the working groups, finalizing by the working groups of position papers with policy recommendations to be delivered to the EU-Russia summit to be held later in December in Brussels, working out concrete and realistic plans of the Forum’s work for 2012, and developing effective mechanisms of communication between the Forum members and its decision-making mechanisms between the conferences.

1 December 2011, Day 1

 09:30–10:00 Registration

 10:00–11:00 Plenary Session 1. Opening of the Conference

 Welcome remarks:

-          Welcome address from the President of the Polish Republic (delivered by a representative of the Presidential Chancellery)

-          Welcome remarks from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

-          A representative of the EU External Action Service

-          A representative of the Russian Federation

 11:00–11:30 Plenary Session 2

 - Between Prague and Warsaw: Progress Report by Steering Committee

- Goals and Agenda for Warsaw Meeting

11:30–13:00 Plenary Session 3

 Expert Panel Discussion

(open call for suggestions of topics by Forum members by 15 October)

 13:00–14:30 Lunch

 14:30–16:00 Working Groups Session 1

Position Papers with Recommendations to Governments: Discussion about Drafts

 16:00 –16:30 Coffee Break

 16:30–18:00 Working Groups Session 2

- Position Papers with Recommendations to Governments: Finalization & Adaption

- Working Groups for 2012: Elaboration of Work Plans

 19:00–20:30 Reception (by invitations only)

2 December 2011, Day 2

9:30–11:00 Working Groups Session 3

- Working Groups for 2012: Finalization of Work Plans

- Communication & Decision-making Process within Working Groups.

- Election of Working Group Coordinators (where necessary).

11:00–12:30 Plenary Session 4

- Presentation of Results of Working Groups: Position Papers and Work Plans

- Adoption of Working Groups’ Position Papers with Recommendations to Governments

12:30–14:00 Lunch

14:00–16:00 Plenary Session 5

- Forum Activities and Plans for 2012: Discussion

- Communication & Decision-making Process between Conferences, Interaction between Working Groups

- Clarification of Role of Steering Committee and Secretariat (if necessary)

- Election of Steering Committee Members (if necessary).

16:00–16:15

Closing Remarks by Steering Committee

– The working languages of the conference are English & Russian –