PANI is honoured to inform you about a conference organised wthin Polish Cooperation Network entitled “Significance of Integration and development of Polish NGOs located abroad” which will be held in 24th April in Belfast. Its main goal is to widen the cooperation between Polish NGOs emerged in Europe after the year 2004. The conference will host 60 representatives of various organizations actively working for betterment of the situation of polish immigrants and promotion of polish culture abroad.We are keen to reach local NGOs acting in Europe. We would like to invite you to lectures and debates will be offered which, as we believe, will help solve many problems faced by Polish NGOs as well as to create a development plan for future. For more information please contact us at konferencja@polishassociation.org
The project is financed by Senat of the Republic of Poland.
Program of the conference
• Belfast sightseeing with a guide
• Presentation of Polish Cooperation Project – Maciej Bator, PANI
• Condition of Polish economic immigration five years after EU enlargement – prof. K. Iglicka, Centre for International Relations
• Development of Polish NGOs illustrated by the example of I School of Polish Leaders for Western Europe – Magda Mazur, Leaders Association
• Hate Crime and its influence on Polish immigrants- Paul Iganski, PhD, Lancaster University
• Cooperation of NGOs with the government and possibility of influencing bills with a local law – Patrick Yu, Director of NICEM
• Federal Union of European Nationalities – the role of networking in communication between organisations on the European platform
• Debate – The ways of integration, how to integrate immigrants with locals.
• Visit at “Failte” a local cultural centre. Dinner and Irish dance classes.
• Workshops, http://www.facebook.com/l/2f43b;25.04.2010
• “The greater unity, the greater good” Leszek Kolakowski
• Old and new emigration – is cooperation possible?
• Communication methods between organizations
• Polish Cooperation Network – planning and strategy developing
• Cooperation with local communities
• Interpresonal communication
• Debate: Do we really lack understanding of each other? – the debate with the representatives of the “old” and “young” immigrants.