Enlarged Stakeholder Meeting 9 December 2014 - Invitation and programme

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2015 - European Year for Development

Invitation Enlarged Stakeholder Meeting
9 December 2014

Dear Sir, Dear Madam,

The European Commission is pleased to extend to you an invitation to attend the “Enlarged stakeholder meeting on the European Year for Development 2015” event, which will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday 9th December, 2014.

Please note that if you wish to guarantee a seat at the conference we strongly suggest that you register by the 2nd of December 2014.

You will find the provisional program of the conference below. It is also available on the stakeholders’ webpage: http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/eyd2015/

You can follow #EYD2015 on Twitter.

CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference will take place at the “The Egg” Meeting Centre, on Tuesday 9th December 2014 at
Rue Bara 175, 1070 Brussels
http://www.eggbrussels.eu/

HOW TO REGISTER
Please follow this link, to access the online registration form.*
We kindly ask you to register by 2^nd of December 2014 at the latest.

WORKING LANGUAGE
The official working language of the conference will be English.

*Please do not hesitate to contact our event organiser Media Consulta at EYDstakeholdersmeeting@mcgroup.com should you encounter any issues with the registration or should you require further information.

Programme Enlarged Stakeholder Meeting
Brussels, 9 December 2014

Programme Enlarged Stakeholder Meeting
Brussels, 9 December 2014

8.30       Arrival of participants

9.00       General welcome

Klaus Rudischhauser, Deputy Director General, DG Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid, European Commission

9.15       The Narrative Project – Building public support for global development

Julian Lambertin, Head of Strategy & Analytics at Weber-Shandwick

10.00     Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Maarten Roest, Communications coordinator, Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium

10.20     Confederation for Cooperation of Relief and Development NGOs (CONCORD)

Seamus Jeffreson, Director

10.40     Committee of the Regions (CoR)

Bernard Chane Kune, Administrator

Tom De Smedt,  Administrator

10.50    European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

               Andris Gobiņš, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee

11.00     Private Sector Representative

Christine Bosse, Advocate for the Millennium Development Goals by the UN Secretary General

11.20     Coffee Break

11.40     EYD2015 what’s next?

Stina Soewarta, Head of Unit 05 Communication and Transparency DG Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid, European Commission

Dörte Bosse, Team Leader EYD Unit 05 Communication and Transparency, DG Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid, European Commission

12.00     Communication Campaign: Promoting the EYD 2015

Yasmin Love, Account Director Media Consulta

12.20     Q&A

12.45     Lunch Break

13.30     European Parliament

Charles Goerens, Member of the European Parliament

13.40     EYD2015: An EU corporate communication campaign

Directorate-General of Communication

14.00     United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC)

Caroline Petit, Brussels Deputy Director

14.05     Q&A

14.30     Wrap-up

15.00     Coffee Break

15.15     Optional programme

• Speed networking sessions fostering synergies between stakeholders
• Training EYD WEB
• Training EYD Social Media
• Training Information – Evaluation session – Measuring  the success of the EYD 2015 campaign

16.45     End of optional programme