September 4 (Tuesday)
All day
Participants' arrival, accommodation, picking up badges
14:00
Official opening of the Economic Forum /possibility to participate in panels of the Economic Forum/
19:00
Working dinner for the conference guests staying overnight at the Wierchomla Hotel /restaurant hotel Wierchomla/
September 5 (Wednesday)
9:00 - 10:30
Plenary session of the Economic Forum /possibility to attend/
10:40
Opening of the conference "Europe Kapat" Marek Kuchciński, Deputy Speaker of the Polish Parliament
10:40 - 11:55
And panel: How to finance the development of the Carpathians in the new seven-year EU budget 2013 - 2020?
mountain areas in the EU regional development policy; experiences from other macro-regional strategies (Baltic, Danube); Visegrad Fund; supporting and promoting joint activities of local governments, NGOs, chambers of commerce, science and culture units referring to the community of interests and the Carpathian identity. Presentation of projects.
Moderator: Jerzy Kwieciński, expert on regional development and EU funds, Business Centre Club
Richard Horcsik, Chairman of the Committee on European Union Affairs of the Hungarian Parliament
L'uboš Mártinak, Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
Tomasz Poręba, Member of the European Parliament
Michal Janeba, Deputy Minister of Regional Development of the Czech Republic
Marceli Niezgoda, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Regional Development
Karla Wursterova, Director of International Visegrad Fund
Martín Guillermo Ramírez, Secretary General, Association of European Border Regions AEBR
Dawid Lasek, Vice President of the Carpathian Euroregion
12:05 - 13:05
Panel II: Carpathian community - parliamentary initiatives for the Carpathians
Parliamentary initiatives for the benefit of the Carpathians, including a discussion of the concept of establishing Carpathian clubs in national parliaments and coordinating joint activities at the parliamentary level.
Moderator: Krzysztof Szczerski, Member of the Polish Parliament
Cezary Grabarczyk, Deputy Speaker of the Polish Parliament
Richard Horcsik, Chairman of the Committee on European Union Affairs of the Hungarian Parliament
Markiyan Malskyj, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Poland
Wojciech Jasiński, MP, Chairman of the Economy Committee
Piotr Naimski, MP, Chairman of the Polish-Hungarian Parliamentary Group
Norbert Obrycki, Senator of the Republic of Poland, representative of the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of Poland and Ukraine
/during the conference there will be catering facilities available to the public/
13:15 - 14:15
Panel III: Our Mountains, Common Cause: Leading Projects
Will we live to see Alpine standards of summer and winter recreation in the Carpathians? How to increase the tourist attractiveness of the Carpathians? According to Eurostat research, 850 thousand skiers visit the Alps, spending there an average of PLN 2,521 per person. How to use about EUR 100 million, which is spent by Polish skiers during the winter season? What lessons should we learn from the Slovak experience with the privatization of Slovak Cableways? Skiing "Visegrad Triangle" as a chance for development of mountain regions in Poland.
Moderator: Zbigniew Rynasiewicz, Chairman of the Infrastructure Committee of the Polish Parliament
Olgierd Dziekoński, Secretary of State, Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Poland
Igor Rattaj, Co-Owner, JTF Group, Slovakia
Mykhailo Vishivanyuk, Governor, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration, Ukraine
Igor Olijnyk, Chairman of the Committee on Business Development, Construction and Architecture, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council
Bohus Hlavaty, President, Tatry Mountain Resorts, Slovakia
Andrzej Massel, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Transport, Construction
and Maritime Economy
Voices in the discussion:
Władysław Ortyl, Senator of the Republic of Poland, Chairman of the Defence Committee
Paweł Skawiński, Director of the Tatra National Park
Andrzej Sztorc, Vice-Chairman of the Commission for European Union Affairs
14:25 - 15:25
IV Panel: The Carpathian Convention - the sustainable development of the Carpathians
Practical implementation of guidelines for sustainable development in areas regulated by the Carpathian Convention (e.g. tourism, environmental protection, spatial planning and cooperation in the field of science); activities for the accession of the EU as a party to the Carpathian Convention.
Moderator: Jan Szyszko, MP, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry
Erika Jurinova, Vice President of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
Gordana Comić, Vice-President of the National Assembly of Serbia
Katarzyna Sobierajska, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Sport and Tourism
Mykhailo Kostiuk, Governor, Lviv Regional State Administration, Ukraine
Giacomo Luciani, Project Coordinator, Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention
Jan Malicki, Director of East European Studies
Igor Cependa, Rector of the National University of Transcarpathia in Ivano-Frankivsk
Bohdan Prots, WWF Ukraine Programme Coordinator
15:40 - 17:00
Plenary session of the Economic Forum /possibility to attend/
18:00
Gala dinner for conference participants /restaurant "Hydropatia", 1 Nikifor Krynicki Street, Krynica/
