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ROUND TABLE ON THE

CELAC – EU

SANTIAGO SUMMIT

13May 2013 / 14H30 – 18H15

ICHEC Brussels Management School Boulevard Brand Whitlock 2, 1150 Brussels

Organized by:

“Interuniversity Institute for the Relations between The European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean” – IRELAC (Brussels)

“Centro di Studi, Formazione e Informazione dell'America Latina - UE” CEFIAL (Milan)

“European Forum of e-Excellence” EMF (Brussels)

The 7th EU-LAC Summit – first CELAC-EU Summit - brought together European, Latin American and Caribbean Heads of State and Government in Santiago de Chile on 26-27 January 2013, in order to address an Alliance for Sustainable Development to Promote Investments of Social and Environmental Quality. During the Summit, the Leaders adopted a political Declaration and expanded an Action Plan. After this very important event enriched by a number of related meetings such as the Judicial Summit, Academic Summit, Business Summit and the Summit of Civil Society, IRELAC, CEFIAL and EMF propose to dedicate a round table and open discussion to the issues and challenges both regions are facing in the framework of their partnership. The main purpose of this event is to open a space for a free exchange of views between academic experts, authorities, enterprises and civil society representatives in order to contribute to spurring the momentum reached at these Santiago Summits to improve the implementation of the EU-CELAC Action Plan fostering cooperation for mutual interest in the fields of trade, science, technology, innovation, education and social inclusion and aimed to adapt the CELAC and EU instruments to establish a structured framework for broader and deeper political dialogue and sustainable development.

IRELAC asbl – ICHEC – rue au Bois 365 – C301 – 1150 Bruxelles – irelac@ichec.be – www.irelac.eu

14h30 – 15h00 Registration and welcome

15h00 – 15h15

Welcome Address by Christian Ghymers, President of IRELAC

15h15 – 16h00 The Santiago Summit and the EU-CELAC relations: political

and economic assessments

Isabel Recavarren, President of CEFIAL-UE

Christian Ghymers, President of IRELAC

Mirella Ferlazzo, Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Italy

Open discussion

16h00 – 16h15 Coffee break 16h15 – 17h00 CELAC – EU cooperation challenges: trade, science, technology and innovation

Constanza Negri Biasutti, EUROCHAMBRES

Margaretha Mazura, Secretary General of EMF

Discussant: Luigi Montanari, scientific board member of

IRELAC Open discussion

17h00 – 17h45 CELAC – EU challenges: social inclusion

Gérard Karlshausen, European policy analyst at CNCD

Christiane Daem, Executive Secretary of IRELAC

Discussant: Thomas Zadrozny, Nanofutures

Open discussion

17h45 – 18h15

Conclusions and operational Proposals

Christian Ghymers, President of IRELAC

Mirella Ferlazzo, Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico,

Italy

Margaretha Mazura, Secretary General of EMF

18h15 Cocktail

Access to the Round Table is free of charge, but registration is obligatory.

The Round Table results will be disseminated on the

Internet.

Working languages: English – French - Spanish

Information and registration: irelac@ichec.be