Programme

Thursday, 4th October 2007

09.00h – 10.45h Registration of the participants

10.15h – 10.45h Performance by TOCÁ RUFAR 


OPENING SESSION 

11.00h – 12.00h Antonio Costa, Mayor of the Municipality of Lisbon 

Messages from:
José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission; 
Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission; and
Manuel Marín González, former Vice-President of the European Commission

Koen Geven, Chairman of the European Students Union (ESU) 

Ján Figel’, Member of the European Commission

José Mariano Gago, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education

12.00h – 12.30h Concert by Bernardo Sassetti

12.30h – 14.30h Lunch at the conference centre 



WORKSHOP

14.30h – 18.00h The need to broaden the social dimension of Erasmus Programme

Chair: Manuel Heitor, Secretary of State of Science, Technology, and Higher Education

Odile Quintin, Director-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission 

Andrew McCoshan and Manuel Souto Otero, Director and Associate Director of ECOTEC
(to present the evaluation on socio-economic background of Erasmus Students)

Discussant: António Firmino da Costa, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) 

Debate

Ulrich Teichler, Professor at the International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel and at the Department for Social Sciences of the University of Kassel 
(to present the study on Professional value of Erasmus mobility)

Discussant: Melissa Hartel, author of the thesis "L'auberge espagnole ou la construction d'un espace culturel européen à travers le programme Erasmus"

Debate

16.15h – 16.45h Coffee-break

Giorgio Marinoni, President of the Erasmus Students Network, and Ewa Krzaklewska, Erasmus Students Network
(to present the ESN 2006 survey on exchange students rights and recommendations and the results of the Erasmus Van trip) 

Debate

18.00h Closure

21.00h Public Concert – THE GIFT 

Friday, 5th October 2007


CLOSING SESSION

10.00h The need to broaden the social dimension of Erasmus Programme


SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS OF THE WORKSHOP

Panel:
Andrew McCoshan; Ulrich Teichler; Giorgio Marinoni

Invited interventions

Debate 

12.00h Conclusions: 
José Mariano Gago, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education