10.00

Workshop organised by NUROPE, Nomadic University for Arts, Philosophy and Enterprise in Europe, together with “Nätverkstan Kultur i Väst” (Programme to be found in www.nurope.eu/goteborg.html)

11.30

Press Conference

Morning and afternoon

Arrival and hotel check in

About 17.00

Gothenburg Christmas City event, Kungsportsavenyn

18.00

Registration

18.30

Opening of Session
Speakers: Anneli Hulthén, Mayor of Gothenburg
Lars Nordström, Chairman Cultural Board, Västra Götaland
Margareta Wallin-Pettersson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Gothenburg

19.15

Musical Intermezzo – Katia Guerreiro(Portugal)

19.30

Welcome Reception offered by the City of Gothenburg

20.30

ECP Senate Meeting

08.30

Further Registration

09.00

Keynote: Peter Hjörne, Chief Editor, Göteborgsposten: “Editorial Quality in the digital Age”

09.30

Keynote: Åsa Bernlo, Gothenburg Film Festival: “The Quality of being diverse”

10.00

Panel Discussion and General Debate on Quality and Reflection in Culture.
Participants:
Jasenko Selimovic (Sweden) – Theatre, moderator
Andreas Richter (Germany) – Music
Gaspar Miklos Tamas (Hungary) – Philosophy
Yuriy Andrukhovic (Ukraine) – Literature
Savina Tarsitano (Italy) – Visual Arts
Lars Montag (Germany) – Film

11.00

Coffee break

11.15

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Norway): “Happiness, Quality and Reflection in a European Perspective”. Discussion

11.30

Musical Intermezzo – Miha Pogacnik (Slovenia)

11.45

New ECP-Members on the theme of the session:
Jean-Marc Dreyfus (France) – History
Nicoleta Esinencu (Moldavia) – Literature
Ana Zuvela (Croatia) – Cultural Management
Catharina Thörn (Sweden) – Urban sociology
Ilmar Raag (Estonia) – Film
Johan Öberg (Sweden) – Literature

13.00

Lunch

13.45

Workshop – NUROPE/Gothenburg/Västra Götaland Region and ECP: “Arts & Business – Culture as Growth factor”. Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Kristian Berg, David Karlsson, Johan Öberg, Bert Mulder

15.15

Panel Discussion II and general debate on Quality and Reflection in Culture and Media. Participants: Ove Joanson (Sweden) – Media, moderator
Laura Freixas (Spain) – Literature
David Lordkipanidze (Georgia) – Archeology
Helle Juul (Denmark) – Architecture
Sjon (Iceland) – Literature
Dino Mustafic (Bosnia & Herzegovina) – Film
Janis Garancs (Latvia) – New Media
Steve Miller (UK) – Visual Arts

16.15

Panel Discussion and General Debate, continued – Magda Carneci (Romania) – Moderator

17.00

Bus transfer to Backateatern

17.30

“Gangs of Gothenburg”, Theatre Performance, followed by reception and Workshop ECP/West Sweden/Gothenburg: “Culture as Integration Factor”. Mattias Andersson, Mikela Lundahl and others

08.30

Santa Lucia

08.45

“ECP and Friends”:
European Journalism Centre – Willy Ruetten, Maastricht
Institute for Cultural Diplomacy – Mark Donfried, Berlin
A Soul for Europe – Steve Austen, Amsterdam, Dejan Ubovic, Belgrade, Susana Marques, Guimaraes
Meritis Foundation – Linda Bouws, Amsterdam
Institute of Ideas – Claire Fox, London
The Festival Berlin – Florian B. Mueck, Berlin
“Youth ECP” – Jenny Garcia, London
An Oxford European Research Project – Lyudmila Nurse, Oxford

09.40

Gunilla von Bahr, Gunnar Bjursell, Fredrik Ullén (Sweden): “Quality of Life” – Culture and Health

10.30

Coffee Break

10.45

New ECP-Members (cont.): Nikola Matisic (Sweden): “Music without Quality?” Discussion Mats Rosengren (Sweden) – Philosophy/Rhetoric

11.10

Egle Rakauskaite (Lithuania): “Impressions from Vilnius, European Capital of Culture 2009”

11.30

ECP Host City 2010! A presentation

11.50

Reports from workshops

12.30

Lunch

13.30

Concluding discussion on Quality and Reflection in Culture and Media

15.00

End of Session