MLE2019 - panels
This year's Move.Link.Engage Fundamentals.Wanted. will open on September 12th with a panel devoted to improving the space for civil society participation in the European integration process, which will aim to provide responses and clear recommendations to decision makers in the region in order to stand in the way of negative trends narrowing the space for the engagement of the civil society.
Also, during the first day of the Conference, the results of the Program "Civil Society for Advancement of Serbia's EU Accession" will be presented. During the first three years of the program, the Belgrade Open School, with 17 partner organizations, monitored changes in some of the key policies for progress in the European integration process: the rule of law, media freedom, environment, youth policy and employment policy.
The second day of the conference will begin with a panel dedicated to the promotion of regional cooperation, as the basis for the European perspective of the Western Balkans region, after which the Conference continues in parallel sessions.
Parallel sessions are dedicated to topics that are in the focus of work and research of key program areas of the Belgrade Open School:
- The future of the Berlin Process;
- Citizen participation in the decision-making process;
- Environmental and climate change policies;
- Improving the skills and employability of young people.
More about MLE conference
Each year, the MLE conference takes stock of the key issues in the European integration process: basic rights and the rule of law, good governance and public administration reform, environmental protection and energy efficiency, employment and youth policy, regional cooperation and good neighborly relations.
The conference aims to promote a regional approach to solving common problems and to encourage cooperation between citizens, civil society organizations, institutions, companies, as well as to support and promote the process of European integration in the countries of the region through the active participation of civil society organizations and the media.
In the past four years, the Conference brought together representatives of European Union institutions - the European Parliament, the European Commission, the European Economic and Social Committee, representatives of civil society organizations and research organizations, government institutions and bodies from Serbia and the region, as well as a wide range of representatives of the media, bisiness sector and academia across Europe and the Western Balkans.
Through a series of roundtables, panel sessions and discussions with prominent speakers and guests from the countries of the European Union and the Western Balkans region, of importance to the topics that the Conference deals with year after year, the Belgrade Open School provides a significant contribution to improving the understanding of the European integration process and providing guidance , recommendations and guidance to decision-makers on the need for regional cooperation on a common European path, respecting the principles of transparency and involvement of all stakeholders.
The conference was first organized in 2015 as one of the activities in support of the Europe for Citizens Program of the European Union, but after the end of the support program, the Belgrade Open School continued to organize this conference as one of its main activities during the year.
