Conference Schedule
Saturday, 15 February 2020
Youth Day 1
The Youth Days offer a programme exclusively tailored to young participants
Sunday, 16 February 2020
Youth Day 2
Mayors’ Day
The Mayors’ Day offers a programme exclusively tailored to Mayors and municipal representatives
Registration & Networking
Welcome Dinner at the conference venue
Monday, 17 February 2020
Registration
Opening
Mag.a Doris Schmidauer
André Heller – Multimedia Artist and co-founder of Act.Now
Sparkling Inputs: Involve the Youth!
Jürgen Czernohorszky – Executive City Councillor for Education, Integration, Youth and Personnel of the City of Vienna | Austria
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Sparkling Inputs: Diversity & Division
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Coffee Break
11.00
NOW Promising Practices Introduction & Phase I
Each community is different. But the challenges of living together are often similar in different local contexts. The series NOW Promising Practices showcases living examples of how to strengthen inclusive social cohesion in diverse communities. We understand practices as methods or ways of action which are adaptable to other local contexts. It is not about describing a project but about explaining how municipalities or local civil society actors tackle societal challenges.
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Lunch
13.00
Sparkling Inputs: Encounter enables Cohesion
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Workshop Phase I: From knowledge to action
During the conference, we will gather different insights on how we can overcome division in our communities. But how can we transform this expertise into action? The workshops will focus on how we can act to actually change something at the local level. This format serves as a laboratory to deepen the understanding of our conference topics and allow participants to experience the themes first hand.
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Coffee Break
16.00
Sparkling Inputs: Insights from Practitioners
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Encounter with All your Senses
Dinner
19.00
DJ Eugene Quinn
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Arrival
Sparkling Inputs: Insights from Mayors
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Talk: Mayors under pressure
Isabella Conti – Mayor of San Lazzaro di Savenat | Italy
Tjark Bartels – Former Head of Administration of Hameln-Pyrmont District | Germany
Igor Marentič – Mayor of Postojna | Slovenia
Mohamad Saadieh – Mayor of Dannieh | Lebanon
Facilitator: Uta Zeuge-Buberl – Act.Now | Austria
Coffee Break
10.30
Sparkling Inputs: Peace & Acceptance
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Lunch
13.00
Fishbowl Discussion: Connecting the Dots – Enacting Local Change
Mayors, practitioners and young people discuss the key conference findings in order to connect the conference and the actions of the participants at the local level.
Facilitator: Thomas Seifert – Wiener Zeitung | Austria
Closing Ceremony