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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
9.15 WELCOME
Boguslaw Dybas
Director of the Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna
Siegfried Sellitsch
Club of Rome
9.30 OPENING
Maria Joao Rodrigues
Representative of the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union,
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for the Portuguese EU Presidency
10.00 SESSION 1
The Challenges Ahead: Energy Scarcity and Resource Consumption
Moderator: Ivo Slaus, Club of Rome
The session outlines the present challenges for Europe: Peak Oil is being reached, the limits to physical growth have been ignored and the consequences are clearly visible today.
But Europe continues to have a high ecological footprint and reduction of resource consumption is a difficult task. Globalisation has reached dimensions which challenge
governability not only at the local and at the national but even at the European level.
Dennis Meadows
Honorary Member of the Club of Rome
Preparing Europe for a Successful Future with More Heat and Less Oil
Comments by Erich Valentin (City of Vienna) and Elisabeth Freytag (Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Austria)
Discussion
13.30 SESSION 2
Policy Concepts: The Lisbon Strategy and the EU Strategy for Sustainable Development
Moderator: Paul Lendvai, Europäische Rundschau
The renewed Lisbon Strategy emphasizes the role of eco-innovation and eco-efficiency. The session will describe the
two major European strategies and their interactions. Will it be possible to bring ecology and economy together?
Is the monitoring of the two strategies efficient and are enough efforts undertaken to guarantee the success of both?
Thomas Schauer
Director, European Support Centre of the Club of Rome
The Lisbon Strategy and the EU Strategy for Sustainable Development: Synergies and Contradictions
Calin Georgescu
Executive Director, UNEP National Committee, Bucharest
Romanian Association of the Club of Rome
Monitoring the EU Strategy for Sustainable Development - Experiences in a New Member State of the EU
Friedrich Hinterberger
President, Sustainable Europe Research Institute
Measuring Sustainability and Economic Growth in Europe
Discussion
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
9.30 SESSION 3
The Central and Eastern European Perspective on Sustainability and Growth
Moderator: Krzysztof Pawlowski, Nowy Sacz School of Business – National-Louis University
Decision-makers in the new EU member states may have a special perspective on sustainability. Their countries being in a period of high economic growth they
may emphasize the economic dimension. How can this economic growth be made also environmentally sustainable? The session will also discuss the perspectives
of European countries which are not members of the EU.
Krzysztof Rybinski
Deputy President, National Bank of Poland
Achieving Sustainable Growth. Will New Europe Fly or Crawl in the 21st Century Global Knowledge Economy?
Medea Abashidze
Secretary-General, Georgian Association of the Club of Rome
Economy and Ecology in Eastern Europe
Krisztina Ónodi
Science Manager, Systems Consulting Ltd, Budapest
Hungary and the Perspective on Sustainability
Beáta Brestenská
Comenius University, Bratislava
Europe on the Way to a Knowledge Society – the Example of Slovakia
Discussion
13.30 SESSION 4
Eurofuturology 2050
Moderator: Józef Niznik, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
The Future of Europe is a great economic, political, cultural and scientific
challenge. We have to answer the dramatic or even tragic questions related to the vision of Europe 2050.
Will we achieve a consensus about a common future or will we run after diverging and maybe even contradictory concepts?
How can future science and a new Futurology help to find a promising pathway?
Antoni Kuklinski
President, Polish Association for the Club of Rome
Eurofuturology 2050
Réka Várnagy,
Corvinus University Budapest
Hungarian Association of the Club of Rome
Opportunities in Futures Studies for Europe
Pentti Malaska,
Honorary Member of the Club of Rome and Karin Holstius
From Strategic Thinking to a Vision for Europe
Discussion
CLOSING REMARKS
Martin Lees
Club of Rome,
Rector em. of the United Nations University for Peace, Costa Rica
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