WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

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09.00h Conference opening by Javier de Cendra, Dean Faculty of Law, Business and Government UFV.

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10.00h Panel 1 "Driving Competitiveness: Europe's Economic Strategies for Tomorrow"

• Almudena de la Mata, CEO Blockchain Intelligence, Madrid.

• Sebastian Heidebrecht, Centre for European Integration Research, Universität Wien.

• Anthony Gooch, European Round Table for Industry, Brussels David Christoph Lerch, Vice President Public Affairs, Bayer AG, Leverkuser Ioderation: Peter Hefele. Wilfried Martens Center for Furonean Studies. Brussels.

• David Christoph Lerch, Vice President Public Affairs, Bayer AG, Leverkuser.

• Moderation: Peter Hefele. Wilfried Martens Center for Furonean Studies. Brussels.

 

11.30h Coffee Break

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12.00 h. Panel 2 "Forging Alliances: Europe's partnership with the Global South"

Cooperation Partner Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung.

• Philip Yang, Senior Fellow Brazilian Center for International Relations.

• Garima Mohan (TBC), Senior fellow in the Indo-Pacific Program German Marshall.
  Fund of the United States, Brussels.

• Angelika Niebler (TBC), MEP, Brussels.

 

Moderation: Henning Senger, Deputy Director Institute for International Cooperation, Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung.

 

13.30 h. Lunch

 

15.30 h. Panel 3 "Guarding Europe: Challenges and Strategies for Security and Defense"

Cooperation Partner Reformismo 21.

• Ildefonso de Castro, Ambassador, International advisor to the President of the Partido Popular, Madrid.

• Dominik P. Jankowski, Director, Economics and Security Committee, NATO.
  Parliamentary Assembly, Brussels.

Moderation: Vauntica E, Prándo Fero, IMinaloal peiatons, Fundación Reformismo21 & Lecturer UFV.

 

17.00 h. Panel 4 "The European Democracy and its Capacity to act: Integration, Expansion, and Reform"

Cooperation Partner Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Madrid Office.

• Robert Fedler, Political Scientist, TU Darmstadt.

• Nicolai von Ondarza, Head of research division, SWP Berlin.

• Inês Lopes Domingos, Secretary of State for European Affairs, Lisbon Moderation: Ludger Gruber, Director Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Representation for Spain & Portugal, Madrid.

 

18.30h Closing remarks Ignacio Cosidó, Director, Centro del Bien Comun Global, UFV Madrid.

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18.45h End of conference | Get together & tapas young researchers KAS/UFV in UFV Campus.

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20.30h Closing conference dinner downtown Madrid (for Speakers).