Opening Plenary

Greetings and introductory speeches
Chair: Attila Zongor, Head, Cultural Contact Point Hungary
Speakers:
Laszlo Baan, State Secretary, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Budapest
Thomas Glaser, Councellor, Delegation of the European Commission to Hungary, Budapest
Bela Szombati, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Budapest
Ion Caramitru, President of Uniter, Former Minister of Culture, Bucharest

Plenary 1

The cultural landscape in today's Europe
Chair: Miklos Marschall, Director, Transparency International, Berlin
Speakers:
Ferenc Miszlivetz, Institute of Sociology, Budapest
Vera Boltho, Head of Cultural Policy and Action Department, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Kirill Razlogov, Director, Russian Institute for Cultural Research, Moscow

Working Group 1A

The arts
Chair: Gyorgy Szabo, Director of Trafo, Budapest
Speaker: Mik Flood, Deputy Director, Euclid, London

Working Group 1B

Media and cinema
Chair: Irina Boulin-Ghica, Head of European and International Affairs Department, Office of the Prime Minister, Paris
Speaker: Wolfgang Closs, Director, Audiovisual Observatory, Strasbourg

Working Group 1C

Cultural heritage
Chair: Geoffrey Brown, Director, Euclid, Liverpool
Speaker: Sanjin Dragojevic, Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science, Zagreb University

Plenary 2

Culture and the reforming of European governance
Chair: Dragan Klaic, President of EFAH, Amsterdam
Speakers:
Pavel Cernoch, Jean Monnet lecturer, Charles University, Prague
Mary Ann DeVlieg, Director of IETM, Brussels
Rachel Guglielmo, Project Director, Open Society Institute, Budapest

Working Group 2A

Culture 2000
Chair: Agne Martikoniene, Head, Lithuanian Cultural Contact Point, Vilnius
Speaker: Theodossios Mastrominas, Principal Administrator, European Commission, Brussels

Working Group 2B

The future of other EU initiatives and the trans-national funds
Chair: Jose Perez Lazaro, Deputy Director, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Madrid
Speaker: Geoffrey Brown, Director, Euclid, Liverpool

Plenary 3

Focusing on EU regional policy: the place of culture in the Structural Funds
Chair: Ritva Mitchell, President of ERICArts, Helsinki
Speakers:
Colin Mercer, Professor of Cultural Policy, Nottingham University
Corina Suteu, Director, ECUMEST, France / Romania
Andreas Wiesand, Director, Zentrum fur Kulturforschung, Bonn

Working Group 3A

Urban culture
Chair: Peter Inkei, Director, Budapest Observatory
Speaker: Marianna Kajantie, Deputy Director, Helsinki Municipality

Working Group 3B

Culture and regional development
Chair: Pirkko Rainesalo, Counsellor for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Education, Helsinki
Speaker: Claude Veron, Director, Relais-Culture-Europe, Paris

Working Group 3C

Cultural tourism
Chair: Ildiko Szabo, Adviser, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Budapest
Speaker: Francesc Badia, General Manager, Interarts Foundation, Barcelona

Plenary 4

Cultural cooperation and mobility in an enlarged Europe
This session and workshops was organised in conjunction with CIRCLE
Chair: Dorota Ilczuk, President of CIRCLE, Warsaw
Speakers:
Rod Fisher, Director, International Intelligence on Culture, London
Robert Lacombe, Deputy Director, French Institute, Budapest
Kazimierz Krzysztofek, Professor of Sociology, University of Bialystok

Working Group 4A

State administrations and inter-governmental organisations
Chair: Vesna Copic, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Ljubljana
Speaker: Costis Dallas, Professor, Panteion University, Athens

Working Group 4B

Cultural industries
Chair: Delia Mucica, Media Division, Ministry of Culture, Bucharest
Speaker: Jordi Pascual Ruiz, Senior Researcher, Barcelona Municipality

Working Group 4C

Third sector organisations and civil society
Chair: Lidia Varbanova, Programme Director, Open Society Institute, Budapest
Speaker: Ugo Bacchela, President, Fitzcarraldo Foundation, Torino

Closing Plenary

Brave New Europe?
Chair: Naima Balic, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Culture, Zagreb

Speaker: Vittorio Sgarbi, State Secretary, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Rome
Rapporteurs' reports
Concluding Speech: Erhard Busek, Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, Vienna
Farewell Speech: Orsolya Korosi, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Budapest