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APRIL 29, 2025
Part I – Europe
I. – European Citizenship, Identity and Values
9,30 – Registration of Participants
10,00 – Institutional Greetings
10,30 – Introductory remarks by Susanna Cafaro
10,45 - 13,00
Chair - Susanna Cafaro
Maaike Geuens- Open University of the Netherlands, Constitutional identity, democratic disconnect, EU institutions, Sovereignty, and Integration
Jean-Christophe Barbato - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Academic freedom and democracy in European Union law
Francesca Salvatore and Antonio Caso - Atlantic-Mediterranean Relations Study Center, Public History as a Strategic Resource for European Citizenship, Identity, and Values
Bledar Kurti – Albanian University, T oday’s challenges of European Citizenship, Identity and Values
Fabienne Péraldi Leneuf - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, The independence of the judiciary as an aspect of respect for the rule of law: exporting the European model
Esra Akgemci – Selcuk University, Rethinking the EU’s Role in Promoting Peace, Human Rights, and Democracy Amid Anti-Gender Politics and Right-Wing Populism
Sara Poli - Università di Pisa, Citizenship through investments
13,00 Keynote Speech
Domenec Ruiz Devesa – Union of European federalists –A Union that strifes for more?
II. – The European Union in a Changing World
14,30 - 16,30
Chair - Claudia Morini
Ana Bojinović Fenko - Julija Brsakoska Bazerkoska - Ljubjana University, European Union’s Contributions in Addressing the Challenges of the Changing World Order: Analysis of EU’s Actorness In The Fields Of Conflict Resolution, Digital Sovereignty And Trade
Ingrid Kiessling R.- Gabriela Mistral University, The Strategic Alliance between the European Union and Latin America: Protection of Democracy and Human Rights in the Context of Global Instability
Eirikur Bergmann - Bifrost University, Europe’s Security Architecture in an Age of Transactional Diplomacy
Mohamed Shokry, Università del Salento The European Union’s migration governance as a laboratory in a changing world
Oleksiy Kandyuk- EU Neighborhood and Association Initiative, Transatlantic Shift, Strategic Autonomy and Ukraine
Catherine Vieilledent - independent expert in European affairs, The Role of the EU in the World, in the latest European Commission’s initiatives
17-18 The Activist Corner
Group discussions on:
- EU Culture and Values: Raising Awareness (facilitators: Chiara Madaro, Andrea, Francesco V)
- EU Strategic Autonomy and Defense (facilitators: Francesco S, Fabiana, Jacopo)
- Countering Disinformation and Manipulation: How to Communicate Fairly ? (facilitators: Laurids Hempel, Polina, Nadia)
18-18.30 Groups’ reports
APRIL 30, 2025
Part II – World
III. – Values and Tools for a New World Order
9.30 – OPENING SPEECH
Maria D’Aprile & Co.: UNGSC AS A LAB OF THE UN 2.0
Chair Silvia Solidoro
Jeffrey Glausiusz - Pax Orbis, Time to Rebuild
Brian T. Schmitt - CY Cergy Paris University, Democracy as a Set of Normative Social Relationships: The IAPD Framework
Wolfgang Pape - European Commission, Interpopularity as a New Framework
Luca Belgiorno-Nettis - New Democracy , An Antidote to Identity Politics and Nationalistic Rhetoric
INSPIRATIONAL TALK
h.12 Joe Weston, Author FIERCE CIVILITY – A PRACTICAL PATHWAY TO TRANSFORMATIONAL GOVERNANCE
IV – A World in Transition
h.14 Chair Saverio Di Benedetto
Sérgio Barbosa Dos Santos Silva - Université de Gènève, On the rise of AI literacies
Troy Davis- World Citizen Foundation, The Schuman method applied to global climate change
Stefania Attolini Université Catholique de Lyon , AI for the environment: earth monitoring evolutions and legal issues
Gabriele Rogoli, Università Del Salento, EU Leaders 2030 – The New Paradigm of the Green and Digital Transition
Benedetto Rollo- Università del Salento, “Feel Free to Vent Your Fury Here” - How corporations use online activism to influence policymaking
