Sunday, July 11
Arrival of participants

7.00 - 17.00
13.00
18.00

Reception at the hotel
City sighting
Organisational meeting

Monday, July 12
Experiencing the change

10. 00 -10.30
10.30 - 13.30

Press conference
Inauguration

15.00 - 18.00

Group integration / team building workshop
Natalia de Barbaro, PL

Tuesday, July 13
Constitution of citizenship

10.00 - 11.45

What constitution do we need?
Andrzej Bryk, PL

12.00 - 13.45

Where are the Treaties? Recent EU regulations briefing
Grzegorz Pożarlik, PL

15.00 - 18.00

Panel discussion: Translating the invisible
Symbols are not archetypes. Language identity. Unbroken identity cannot exist.
Czeslaw Milosz masterpieces and his translators - V á clav Burian (Czech Republic), Lajos Pálfalvy (Hungary), Anatol Roitman (Russia)
Moderator: Magda Heydel

Wednesday, July 14
Decision taking and decision making

10.00 - 11.45

Facts and myths about EU government and institutions
Ivo Šlosarčík, CZ

12.00 - 13.45

Role of national institutions and regional co-operation in defining and implementation of EU policies.
Urban Runsnák , SK

V4 students' projects

15.00 - 16.00

Workshop for all - methodology of working groups assignments
Paweł Świderski, PL; Jerzy Modlinger, PL*
*these practitioners will be coaching working groups on each project

16.00 - 19.00

Workshop in groups
Project on economic and political co-operation
Project on media co-operation
Paweł Świderski, PL; Jerzy Modlinger, PL

19.00

Everything is COOLture - Polish evening

Thursday, July 15
EQlture

10.00 - 11.45

Future of NGO development and co-operation.
Can we create one common project? Areas of co-operation.
Anar Rusnákova, International Visegrad Fund
Albrecht Lempp, Foundation of Polish-German Co-operation
Milan Nič, Pontis Foundation

12.00 - 13.45

Kantor impact on European arts.
Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz, PL

15.00 - 18.00

Workshop: Intercultural communication and diplomatic protocol
Danuta Glondys, PL; Paweł Świderski, PL

Friday, July 16
Hard politics and soft policies

10.00 - 11.45

Foreign and security policy of EU and Visegrad Group. Issues and challenges.
Ivo Samson , SK

12.00 - 13.45

New neighbourhood policy - Do we need to assist Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and . others?
Luboš Veselý, CZ

15.00 - 18.00

Power and Weakness :
Greater Middle East - A thorny issue in transatlantic relations
Andrzej Kapiszewski, PL
American hegemony - the only option?
Alexander Vondra, CZ

19.00

Everything is COOLture - Czech evening

Saturday/ Sunday, July 17-18
The Visegrad Group not on the Border - study tour

Monday, July 19
Economy..... not philosophy

10.00 - 11.45

Political and economic prognosis for V4.
Anna Wiśniewski, H

12.00 - 13.45

GO WEST for work and living?
Michal Vašečka , SK

15.00 - 18.00

Panel discussion of sponsors: Who pays the Piper?
Social responsibility of business
Karol Szyndzielorz - Siemens,
Dorota Adamska - BP
Bohdan Białorucki - Commericial Union (Aviva Group)
Paweł Kwiatkowski (Kompania Piwowarska)
Moderator: Agata Stafiej, PL

Tuesday, July 20
Society under reconstruction

10.00 - 11.45

National and ethnic stereotypes as we can read them from the public opinion surveys
Oľga Gyárfášova, SK

12.00 - 13.45

Populism - European specialite de la maison .
Dialogue or demagogy?
Jerzy Marek Nowakowski, PL

15.00 - 18.00

Panel debate: Limits of integration and margins of compromise
Michal Vašečka, SK ; Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, PL;
Pál Tamás , H
Moderator: Nina Witoszek, PL-Norway

19.00

Everything is COOLture - Slovak evening

Wednesday, July 21
Crisis of ideas

10.00 - 11.45

Postmodernist Europe
Zdzisław Mach, PL

12.00 - 13.45

Crisis of democracy? Revival of aristocracy?
Samuel Abraham, SK

15.00 - 18.00

Workshops:
Art is dead - Western Europe no longer can produce a piece of decent art. Can we?
Michal Hvorecký, SK
Alternatives to globalisation.
Pál Tamás, H

Thursday, July 22
Free U rope

10.00 - 13.30

Panel debate: Limits of freedom - why do not we tell you everything?
- journalists and intellectuals on the role of media in contemporary world.
Adam Michnik, PL; Göran Rosenberg, Sweden; Ed Vulliamy, UK; Maciej Zaremba, PL-Sweden
Moderator: Nina Witoszek, PL-Norway

15.00 -18.00

Country briefing: top events of V4 in 2003 - students' debate
Moderator: Jerzy Modlinger, PL

19.00

Everything is COOLture -Hungarian evening

Friday, July 23
1> V4 ( encounter)

10.00 - 12.30

Presentations of working groups results

13.00 - 14.00

Closing session:
Future of Visegrad cooperation in Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Foreign Affairs strategies
Krzysztof Kopytko, PL
Evaluation session
Presenting Visegrad Summer School Certificates

Evening

Krakow by night

Saturday, July 24
Departure of participants