Programme

MONDAY MAY 17th

ppt

video (avaliable after June 10,2010)

09.00 – 11.15

PLENARY SESSION I

Chair: Ivana Krstić, Faculty of Law

09.00 – 09.45

WELCOME ADDRESSES

Milan Škulić, vice dean of Faculty of Law

Michael Platzer, Academic Council on the United Nations System

Marko Kovačević, United Nations Association of Serbia & WFUNA

Radomir Licina, board member, of South East Europe Media Organisation

Prvoslav Marjanović, Educons University, Sremska Kamenica

Janez Podobnik, ECPD Institute for Sustainable Development, Urban Planning and Environmental Studies, Ljubljana and former minister of the environment of Slovenia

09.45. – 10.00

Ivica Radović, state secretary, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, Republic of Serbia;Climate Change as Ecological Threat - Challenges and Solutions (ppt)

10.00 – 10.15

Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner on Environment – Building the Knowledge Base for Environmental Governance - EU Perspectives (video message)

Thomas Stelzer, Assistant Secretary General for Policy Coordination and Inter-agency Affairs, United Nations, New York – Teaching Climate Change and the UN System in Southeast Europe – Some Views from the UN Secretariat Perspective (video message)

10.15 - 10.30

Giorgio Andrian, consultant, UNESCO Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice – The Role of UNESCO in Climate Change Education and Education for Sustainable Development in Southeast Europe

10.30 – 10.45

Miroslav Kukobat, Regional Cooperation Council, Sarajevo – The SEE Regional perspective: Regional Coordination of National Climate Change Strategies and the Role of Human/Scientific Capacity Building

10.45 – 11.00

Tamara Mitrofanenko, UNEP Vienna Office – Climate Change Capacity Building of UnitedNations Environment Programme

11.00 – 11.15

DISCUSSION

11.45 – 13.00

Plenary Session II

Chair: Jasna Zrnović, National Commission of Republic of Serbia for UNESCO

11.45 – 12.00

Andjelka Mihajlov, Environmental Ambassadors, Belgrade and EDUCONS University, National Committee for Coperation with UNESCO, Teaching Climate Change: the multiple relationships between climate change related education, climate (un)sustainability, business sector and civil society

12.00 – 12.15

Nikola Božić / Jovan Kurbalija, DiploFoundation, Geneva – Belgrade; Innovative Diplomatic Training on Climate Change – Harnessing the Potentials of Modern Information and Communication Technologies

12.15 – 12.30

Sharon Oseku, United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Geneva – UNITAR Approach to Capacity Building and Development for Climate Change

12.30 – 13.00

DISCUSSION

14.00 – 15.30

Plenary Session III

Chair: Lučka Kajfež-Bogataj, University of Ljubljana

14.15 – 14.30

Brenda Abrar-Milani, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC,Geneva – Innovative Funding of Scientific Capacity Building on Climate Change – the IPCC Scholarship Programme

14.30 – 14.40

Henrike Paepke, United Nations Studies Association UNSA, Bonn (videoconference) & Michael Platzer, ACUNS, Web 2.0 UN Studies Portal and Preparation of a SEE specific Subportal

14.40 – 14.55

Zsuzsanna Ivanyi, Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), Practical Experience with Regional Climate Change related Capacity Building in CEE and SEE

14.55 – 15.10

Milan Dacic, Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia - Belgrade Initiative on Climate Change for Scientific Capacity Building and Policy Development in the SEE Region

15.10 – 15.20

Miroslav Polzer, Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Ljubljana – Building the Knowledge Base for Climate Change Governance in SEE

15.20 – 15.40

DISCUSSION

16.00 – 18.00

20.00

Round Table with Representatives of relevant Ministries and International Organisations – How to achieve Interministerial and International Cooperation related to Climate Change Capacity Building in SEE?

Chair: Miroslav Polzer, Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Ljubljana

Vladimir Stefanović, Ministry of environment, land and sea of the Republic of Italy, SEE task force

Miroslav Spasojević, Head of Department for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Mining and Energy of

the Republic of Serbia

Milan Jazbec, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ljubljana Teaching environmental diplomacy to youngsters

Discusion

Global Citizenship Education in SEE

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Reception at National Assembly of Republic of Serbia co-sponsored by Austrian Embassy in Belgrade

Opening of the cocktail: Slavica Djukic´ Dejanovic´, President of the Parliament

350 Protection Song World Cup Award

TUESDAY MAY 18th

09.00 – 12.00

Parallel Thematic Workshops:

09.00 – 12.00

1. Schools Chair: Ana Seke, UNA Serbia Climate Change Educational Projects Consultant

Milorad Kondić, Marko Kovacević, Biljana Vukosavljević, United Nations Association of Serbia –educational activities of UNA Serbia about the UN in schools and colleges, co-operation with UNESCO Clubs and ASP schools, educational projects about climate change and "BIMUN - Belgrade International Model UN"

Barbara Höller, Environmental Education Platform Austria, Teacher training for sustainable development

Nikola Božić, Petnica Science Center; Climate Change and Science Education in SEE

Tamara Mitrofanenko, UNEP Vienna : presentation of Move4Nature Teacher Training programme on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the Carpathians

Barbara Vodopivec, Slovenian Global Action – Teaching about Climate Change and the UN System in the context of Global Learning in Slovenia

Gorazd Weiss, International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges – presentation of GloBalkCan Youth Global Challenges Song World Cup

Johann Mischlinger, UNESCO Associated Grammar School BG/BRG Judenburg, Austria

teachers, who are mentors of UN clubs and UNESCO sections in schools in Serbia and other SEE countries and participants from the committee on climate change of Belgrade International Model UN

09.00 – 12.00

2. Science and Higher Education

Lučka Kajfež Bogataj, University of Ljubljana – International and Crosssectoral Cooperation of Climate Change Scientists: Slovenian Experience and Issues for SEE region;

Andreas Türk, JOANNEUM Research, Graz Climate Change research in SEE networking experiences and outlook

Prvoslav Marjanović, Educons University, Sremska Kamenica, Teaching Climate Change: The Role of Tertiary Education Institutions and Barriers to Effective Curriculum Transformation

Branislava Lalić, University of Novi Sad, Climate Change and United Nations Studies in the Context of SEE Regional Inter-University Co-operation

Aleš Dakić, International Center for the Promotion of Enterprises, Ljubljana, Green Industrial MBA

Dejan Erić, Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade, Global Challenges and the Need for International Cooperation in SEE

Jerome C. Glenn & Frank Catanzaro, Millennium project, Global Climate Change Situation Room – An Innovative Way of Global Knowledge Collaboration (video message)

09.00 – 12.00

3. ECPD workshop on Climate Change and Human Health

Chair: ECPD Belgrade (Marina Bujko) & ECPD Ljubljana (Janez Podobnik)

for more details (ppt…) see www.ecpd.si

Peter Raspor, University of Ljubljana - Lifelong learning related to Food Safety and Security in the Context of Environmental and Demographic Changes

Uroš Rakić, ECPD Belgrade - Capacity building and UN governance: How much can add GIS (Geographic Information System) as a prognostic andcomparative tool for climate changes to human and environmental health?

– et al. –

09.00 – 12.00

4. Media

Chair: Oliver Vujović, SEEMO

for more details (ppt, videos) see www.seemo.org

Vladimir Barović, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, Department of Media Studies

Flora Hevesi, reporter, Hungarian public TV – MTV, Budapest

Alenka Kulić, OSCE

Laura Jurecska, Science journalist, contributor of origo.hu

Radomir Licina, senior editor and co-owner, Danas daily, Belgrade

Sandra Irscević, Subotica, Serbia

12.00 – 13.00

Plenary Session IV

13.00

Conclusions and CLOSING of the conference