The venue of the Conference will be the highly prestigious grammar school, the downtown Eötvös József Gimnázium (1053 Budapest, Reáltanoda u. 7.) - the accomodation will be provided by the neighbouring Hotel Erzsébet (1053 Budapest, Károlyi Mihály u. 11-15.).

International Association of Educating Cities (IAEC)

 

The Program of the 8^th Central European Meeting of the IAEC

 

November 12^th, 2008 – Wednesday

Arrivals – accommodations

From 18:00 on: informal reception in the Hotel Erzsébet

From 19:00 on: dinner

20:00 “First impression” (an optional cultural program)

 

November 13^th, 2008 – Thursday

 

9.00
Registration

9:30
Greetings – Mr. Doba László, headmaster of the Eötvös József High  school and his students

9:45
Opening – Mr. Horváth Csaba, Vice Mayor of Budapest City

10:00
Opening of Ms Pilar Figueras, Secretary General of the IAEC

10:20
Educating City: The Moving City and Social Cohesion –

Mr. Joan Manel del Pozo, Professor of the Girona University, expert of IAEC

 

11:15 coffee break

 

Presentations of Budapest

11:35
Creative industry – competitiveness – knowledge city

Mr.Ikvai-Szabó Imre, Vice Mayor of Budapest City

11:55
City branding and graphical city face shaping

Mr. Bojár Iván András, town-councilor

12:15
Living in the shadows of the citylights … The new born consumers of the city-life: Singles, Tiger women, Urban Nomads, Metrosexualists, New Momers and Second Starters

Mr. Sas István, psychologist, Creativity and Communications Director at Academy of Communications
Culture is building a city… (screening a short film directed by Mr. Sas István)

 

12:50 lunch

 

Presentations of the Cities in the Region

14:00
Vienna, at another angle – or how do the city’s inhabitants make the city liveable? A historical capital within children and old men

Mr. Josef Hollos, wienXtra/International Kontakte, Wien (A)

14:20
The new environmental policy of the town of Osijek

Mr. Ante Đapić, President of the City Council, Osijek (HR)

14:40
Europe Prize 2008 for Katowice – Ms. Aleksandra Ścibich, officer, Foreign Affairs Department, Katowice (PL)

15:00
Satu Mare, the city of opportunities

Ms. Koncz Andrea Éva, office director, Satu Mare (RO)

15:20
Moscow family – the competent parents

Ms Tatiana Kotova, director of Kindergarten N 2230, Moscow (RU)

15:40 contributions

16:00 coffee break,
          the student-guides of Eötvös József Gimnázium present the host school.

16:30
“Moving in the City Park” (An optional cultural program)

19.00
A dinner with the Mayor of Budapest

Our city in the move – a subjective guided tour based on my own photos

Mr. Dr. Demszky Gábor, Mayor of Budapest (In Hotel Astoria)

 

 

November 14^th, 2008 Friday

 

8:00
A workshop of IAEC Central European Network member cities. Discussion of the Action Plan with Pilar Figueras.

10:00
“Underground” – or, in various cultures, how does metro change the life of the city inhabitants?

Mr. Klados Gusztáv project director and

Mr. Bleyer András project advisor, DBR Metro Project

10:20
IAEC Congress 2010: “Sport, public policies and citizenship. Challenges of an Educating City”

Mr. José Antonio Cabello Gil, Senior Director of Education, City Government of Guadalajara, Mexico

10:40
The Action Plan of the Central European Regional Network of the IAEC – Ms. Germánné dr. Vastag Györgyi, President of the Budapest City Council Committee of Education and Youth Policy

11:00
Performance „The moving city”

11:20 coffee break

11:30
Press Conference of Mr. Dr. Demszky Gábor, the Mayor of Budapest;

Ms. Montserrat Ballarín, the President of IAEC and

Ms. Pilar Figueras Secretary General of the IAEC;

Mr. José Antonio Cabello Gil, Senior Director of Education, and

Ms. Laura Cortes City Council member  

As representants of Guadalajara regarding IAEC Congress 2010

 

12:15 Lunch with the Executive Committee Members and politicians

 

presentations of various continents

13:45
Rosario, the open city

Mr. Sergio Barrios. General Director of International Relations. Municipality of Rosario (Arg)

14.00
Sao Paulo: changes, contrasts and contradictions

Ms. Vera Lúcia de Oliveira Salvatore, Secretaria Municipal of Education (Br)

14:20
Sum up the Conference; closing

Ms. Montserrat Ballarín, the President of IAEC, and

Ms. Germánné dr. Vastag Györgyi, President of the Budapest City Council Committee of Education and Youth Policy

From 14:30 p.m. on: departure –

the event will proceed with starting the Meeting of the Executive Committee(EC)

 

Meeting of the Executive Committee (EC)

according to the scenario of the IAEC 

Venue: Eötvös József Gimnázium, ceremonial hall

November 14^th, 2008 Friday – cont’d

14:30 Opening of the EC Meeting

17:30 end of Part 1 of the EC Meeting

19:00 dinner for EC Members and those invited; a “Mexican hot evening”

November 15^th, 2008 – Saturday

– in the Eötvös József Gimnázium, ceremonial hall

9:30 – 12:30 EC Meeting Part 2 – incl’d a coffee break

12:30 lunch

14:00 – 17:00 EC Meeting Part 3 – incl’d a coffee break – closing the EC Meeting.

18:00 dinner, sightseeing

 

The series of the events will proceed with the Seminar of the IAEC, on Monday and Tuesday.

 

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Free time activities – optional, elective programs:

1) November 12^th, 2008 – Wednesday – 20:00-22:00 “First impression”

Projection of a short film on Budapest in the restaurant of the Hotel, followed by a downtown walk, in the neighborhood of the Hotel.Capital by night, bridges over the Danube (i.e.: Duna) – Budapest welcomes you.

 

2) November 13^th, 2008 – Thursday – 17:00-20:30 “Moving in the City Park”

Riding the old Underground to the Heroes Square (i.e.: Hősök tere), a guided walk in the City Park (Skating rink, Széchenyi Thermal Baths, Fine Art Museum, Modern Art Gallery).

 

3) November 14^th, 2008 – Friday – 19:00 “Mexican hot evening”

A special dinner with Mexican menu and music for the EC Members and those invited.

 

4) November 15^th, 2008 – Saturday – 18:00-22:00 “Farewell to Budapest”

Sightseeing by bus with short walks, a visit to Liqueur Museum Zwack – short documentary, family exhibition, a taste of Hungarian famous spirits – and a fine Hungarian farewell dinner.

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The Moving City – City in Progress

Fostering Right to Learn,

Citizenship Building, City as Community Making

 

Educating city faces to deal with the issues of fostering right to learn for all in the city, citizenship building, and making the city as a place to live together so as to enhance quality of life of citizens. In this conference, we will have chances to learn together how to resolve these issues, and to share experiences in dealing with these issues. Our discussion will be focused on the following issues.

 

1.       Fostering Rights to Learn

Fostering right to learn for all in the city involves reconstructing socio-cultural structure and environments so that all people can have opportunities to participate whatever learning they would like to learn wherever and whenever in the city.

• Issue of expanding learning opportunities (socio-structural problem) – reconsider school-based learning in terms of who to learn, what and why to learn, when to learn, where to learn, and how to learn
• Issue of fostering to pursue right to learn (fostering and encouraging people’s active participation to learn)
• Issue of kind of learning to foster in educating city – fostering kinds of learning which contribute to furthering humanization and democratization of the city

 

2.       Fostering Citizenship Building

Citizenship building entails fostering people to participate as citizens and to make efforts to draw on the given socio-cultural environments and to work together building more democratic space to live in the city.

• Issue of learning to act as a citizen vs. to be socialized as a mere consumer of learning
• Issue of learning for social action vs. individual action - learning to make democratic space together vs. to be enclosed within individual space

 

3.      Fostering City as Community Making

City as community making involves fostering people to learn to live together. Quality of life in the city depends on learning to interact respecting each other’s interests and values. Persons will have more chances to make better life when we learn to overcome self-centered interests and to pursue common good and social justice together.

• Issue of learning to make city space for co-living, co-working, and co-existing not just a place to survive and compete to win other citizens
• Issue of fostering understanding-oriented learning vs. success-oriented learning
• Issue of fostering cultural intelligence and equality of differences