Foundation Forum: draft programme

Overview

•   8.30: Registration
•   9.30: Welcome
• 11.00 – 12.30: “European Social Model – features and challenges”
• 14.00 – 15.45: “What makes an efficient and effective European social model?”
• 16.15– 18.00: (Parallel Debates)“Challenges to face and choices to make”
• 19.30: Dinner

[Friday 30 August, 2002]

09.30-10.30: Welcome

• The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern TD, Ireland
• Anna Diamantopoulou, Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs, European Commission
• Raymond-Pierre Bodin, Director, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

10.30: Coffee Break

11.00: The European Social Model: features and challenges

• 11.00: The European Social Model and what it signifies - Marie-Hélène Gillig, MEP and Vice-Chair of Employment Committee , European Parliament
• 11.30: Why we need a new welfare state - Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
• 12.00: The world we're in - Will Hutton, Chief Executive, The Work Foundation, UK

12.30: Lunch

14.00: Panel Debate: What makes an efficient and effective European social model?

Chair: Eric Verborgh, Deputy Director, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
Moderator: John Bowman, Broadcaster, Ireland
Discussants:

• Tiziano Treu, Senator and former Minister of Labour, Italy
• Dermot McCarthy, Secretary General to the Government and Chairman of the National Economic and Social Council, Ireland
• Emilio Gabaglio, Secretary General, ETUC
• Thérèse de Liedekerke, Director of Social Affairs, UNICE
• João Cravinho, President, CEEP

10.30: Coffee Break

16.15: Parallel Debates: Challenges to face and choices to make

Debate Room 1: Flexible labour markets
Moderator: Olivia O' Leary , Broadcaster, Ireland
Discussants:

• Anita Gradin , Ambassador and former EU Commissioner, Sweden
• John Martin , Director, ELSA, OECD
• Susan Anderson , Director, Human Resources Policy, Confederation of British Industry ,
• Des Geraghty , President, Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union, Ireland

Rapporteur: Lars Magnusson , Professor, National Institute of Working Life, Sweden

Debate Room 2: An active society for all
Moderator: Doireann Ni Bhriain, Broadcaster, Ireland
Discussants:

• Eleftherios Tziolas, Deputy Minister, Labour and Social Affairs, Greece
• Philippe Marcel, Predisent, Adecco, France
• Leila Kurki, Director, Flinnish Confederation of Salaried Employees - STTK, Finland
• Pedro de Almeida Freire, Board Member, Portuguese Trade and Services Confederation, Portugal

Rapporteur: Pascal Paoli, Co-ordinator, Working Conditions, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

Debate Room 3: Social rights and social standards
Moderator: Áine Lawlor, Broadcaster, Ireland
Discussants:

• Vlado Dimovski, Minister for Labour, Family and Social Affairs, Slovenia
• Walter Cerfeda, Head of Secretariat for Europe, General Confederation of Italian Workers, Italy
• Bernhard Jansen, Director, DG Employment and Social Affairs, European Commission
• Rose-Marie Van Lerberghe, Managing Director, Altedia Human Resources, France

Rapporteur: Rose-Marie Van Lerberghe, Managing Director, Altedia Human Resources, France

Debate Room 4: The EU governance and the European Social Model
Moderator: Joe Brosnan, Director General, Institute of European Affairs, Ireland
Discussants:

• Rudolph Anzinger, Secretary of State, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Germany
• Jérôme Vignon, Chief Adviser to Secretary General, European Commission
• Jan Olsson, President of section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship, ECOSOC
• Nicholas A. Ashford, Professor, Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Rapporteur: Stavroula Demetriades, Co-ordinator, Industrial Relations, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

18.00: End of day one

19.30: Dinner hosted by An Tánaiste [Deputy Prime Minister], Mary Harney TD, on behalf of the Irish Government

[Friday 30 August, 2002]