Sunday, July 13
Arrival of participants

7.00 - 17.00
10.30
14.00
17.30

reception at the hotel
city sighting - group I
city sighting - group II
organisational meeting

Monday, July 14
EU accession referendum
- what happened and why? What next?

10.30 - 13.30

Opening panel session
Exhibition of paintings of Nina Tarasyuk and Switlana Wakarczuk - opening
Beyond Enlargement - Borders to the East? - Borys Tarasyuk

15.00 - 18.00

Group integration / team building workshop - Natalia de Barbaro

Tuesday, July 15
The Visegrad Group within the European Union

10.00 - 11.45

How common is European cultural heritage
- Zdzisław Mach, Wolfgang Bittner

12.00 - 13.45

Political and economic landscape in the enlarged Europe
- Samuel Abraham

15.00 - 18.00

Workshops:
Cultural life in the Visegrad Group countries in the period
of transition - identity, common experience, significant events
- Bożena Gierat-Bieroń
Models of political and economic co-operation inside the EU
- Samuel Abraham

Wednesday, July 16
The Visegrad Group - inside

10.00 - 11.45

Facts and myths about V4 co-operation in the field of culture, economy and foreign policy - Eva Dvorakova

12.00 - 13.45

The role of Visegrad Fund after the EU enlargement - Urban Rusnak

15.00 - 18.00

Workshops:
Rival temptations - do we need any economic and political
co-operation? - Pavol Lukac
Visegrad Fund projects - best practices in culture and education;
how to apply for grants and scholarships - Anar Rusnakova

Thursday, July 17
The Visegrad Group and neighbours

10.00 - 11.45

International co-operation of the City of Krakow

12.00 - 13.45

European paths - role of European foundations in building true partnership relations - Gottfried Wagner, Markus Lux, Kurt Wagner

15.00 - 18.00

Workshops:
Workshop for all - methodology of working groups assignments
- Danuta Glondys
Project on economic and political co-operation - Pawel Swiderski*
Project on cultural/media co-operation - Jan Pieklo*
* Those practitioners will be coaching working groups on each project

10.00 - 11.45

Equality, liberty and solidarity
- they and we. Who needs whom and why?
- Emil Brix

12.00 - 13.45

Cultural and social co-operation
with the South Eastern European countries - Milena Dragicevic-Sesic

15.00 - 18.00

Workshops:
New Schengen borders - issues of security. New instruments
of co-operation in prevention of terror and organised crime - Jiri Marek
Transformation of international order - EU policy for Eastern European co-operation in the field of culture and education - Dorota Ilczuk

ZAKOPANE

Visit to Dom pod Jedlami
Ecology and tourism - together or apart. Areas of co-operation on the border - Jan Krzysztof, Jozef Janiga (Mountain Rescue Groups), Agnieszka Bott-Alama

10.00 - 11.45

Political and economic challenges and implications for V4: common policies vs. individual strategies - Anna Wisniewski

12.00 - 13.45

Do we need America? - Andrzej Kapiszewski

15.00 - 18.00

Workshops:
Four years after - political and economic prognosis for V4 - societies: coming to terms with change - Anna Wisniewski
Democracy- theory and practice - Andrzej Kapiszewski

Tuesday, July 22
The Visegrad Group societies - exclusion

10.00 - 14.00

Prix Europa screenings: Gerhard and Bronia - a forbidden love, Fortress Europe - death on the border, Hitler Stalin and I

15.00 - 16.30

16.30 - 18.00

Human and cultural rights assertion in the V4 region -challenges/obstacles - Miroslav Kusy

Social responsibility of business - Dorota Adamska (BP), Ewa Łabno-Falęcka (DaimlerChrysler Automotive Polska), Karol Szyndzielorz (Siemens), Przemek Pohrybieniuk (PricewaterhouseCoopers)

10.00 - 11.45

Minorities, immigrants, refugees - Michal Vasecka

12.00 - 13.45

Non-Fiction: Identities - issues and challenges. Is religion an issue? What is the influence of our historical heritage on contemporary contacts between V4? Are we "prisoners" of our own stereotypes? - Tamas Pal

15.00 - 18.00
19.00 - 20.00

Workshops:
Are we prepared to growing number of immigrants? - theory and practice. EU standards and V4 parliamentary regulations - Michal Vasecka
Ways of dealing with historical issues in V4 - Peter Talas
Film: The First Gypsy in Space

Thursday, July 24
At the beginning there was a word

10.00 - 13.30

An open debate of journalists and intellectuals on the role of media in building civil societies
Propaganda or promotion?
Arne Ruth, Nina Witoszek FitzPatrick, Witold Bereś, Pavel Novak, Tomasz Grabiński, Paweł Lisicki, Jakub Sobieniowski, Peter Talas, Milan Zitny moderation: Jerzy Marek Nowakowski

15.00 -18.00

Workshop for all:
How to make good political campaign in media? - Piotr Pietka, Tamas Pal

19.00 -20.00

Talk about freedom - Miroslav Kusy, Arne Ruth, Konstanty Gebert, moderation: Jerzy Marek Nowakowski

Friday, July 25
Summer encounter of V4 kind

10.00 - 12.30

Presentations of working groups results, evaluation session

13.00 - 14.00

Closing session - Rafał Wiśniewski

evening

Krakow by night

Saturday, July 26
Departure of participants