PROGRAMME
of the IXInternational Pan-University Summer Visiting Session
of Higher School of EconomicsBaltic Practice
Bruges, Belgium. 1-9August 2009
TOPIC OF THE VISITING SESSION:
Russia and Europe: A New Stage in the Dialogue.
Issues of the New Russia-EU Partnership Agreement
01 August 2009, saturday13.00 / Gathering at the airport
15.20-18.45 / Flight from Moscow to Brussels
19.00 – 20.30 / Arrival, trip from Brussels to Bruges
20.30 – 21.30 / Accommodation in hostel
21.30 – 22.30 / General meeting of the participants. Presentation of the preliminary results and aims of the visiting session – in groups, under the supervision of group leaders. Meeting of the Staff and Student Organization Committee.
02 august 2009, sunday
8.30 – 9.30 / Breakfast
10.00-13.00 / General meeting of the Russian and foreign participants, discussion of the structure of group work, choosing the speakers for plenary sessions and discussants for the sessions of the evening debate club
13.00-14.00 / Lunch
14.00 – 16.30 / Work in groups
16.30- 18.30 / Getting around the town
18.30-20.30 / Methodological seminar for all the participants about research methods in arts & humanities: "Concept
Lattices in the Analysis of Socio-Political Data" (by S.A. Obiedkov, Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics of SU-HSE, and his team – N.Romashkin & M.Klimushkin)
21.00 / Meeting of the Staff and Student Organization Committee
03 August 2009,monday
TOPIC OF THE DAY:
THE NEW RUSSIA-EU STRATEGIC AGREEMENT
8.30 – 9.30 / Breakfast
10.00 – 13.00 / Plenary sessions.
Session: Opening the school. Addresses - from a EU Committee (by Chuck Hirt), from the experts of the European Council, from Russian Association of Political Science
Session: The Russia-EU Strategic Agreement: Stage in Negotiations(by Professor V.N. Zuev, Head of the Chair of International Economic Organizations and European Integration of SU-HSE; F.A. Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Russia in Global Policy)
Session: Common Educational Space. The Issues of "joint diplomas" (by Professor N.Yu. Belyaeva, Head of the Chair of Public Policy of SU-HSE)
13.00 – 14.00 / Lunch
14.00 – 16.30 / Work in groups
16.30- 18.30 / Visits
18.30 - 20.30 / Debate club What Prevents Russia and the EU from Signing a Strategic Agreement? F.A. Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Russia in Global Policy; Professor V.N. Zuev, Head of the Chair of International Economic Organizations and European Integration of SU-HSE)
21.00 / Meeting of the Staff and Student Organization Committee
4 august 2009, tuesday
TOPIC OF THE DAY:
ENTREPRENEURSHIP ETHICS. WHAT IS COMMON AND WHAT IS DIFFERENT FOR RUSSIA AND THE EU
8.30 – 9.30 / Breakfast
10.00 – 13.00 / Plenary sessions.
Session: Conditions for Entrepreneurship in Russia and Belgium – Comparative Analysis (A.Yu. Chepurenko, PhD in Sociology, Dean of the Sociology Department of SU-HSE)
Session: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Corporate Culture (O.A.Melitonyan, PhD in Economics, Vice-Director of the Centre of Corporate Governance of SU-HSE)
Strategic positioning as a key entrepreneurial answer on the global economic crises(bi Mirjana Prljevic, Adviser for the Strategic Positioning, Menora Co. Consulting)
14.00 – 16.30 / Work in groups
16.30 – 18.30 / Individual Work on Presentations
18.30 – 20.30 / Debate Club. Comparative Analysis of the Conditions for Entrepreneurship in Russia and Belgium (A.Yu. Chepurenko, PhD in Sociology, Dean of the Sociology Department of SU-HSE)
Entrepreneurship under crisis(by Dr. Miguel Meuleman, Loeven Business School)
21.00 / Meeting of the Staff and Student Organization Committee
5 august 2009, wednesday
TOPIC OF THE DAY:
HUMAN RIGHTS
8.30 – 9.30 / Breakfast
10.00-13.00 / Plenary sessions.
Session: European Legal Standards (Chuck Hirt, Central and Eastern European Citizens Network)
Session: Case-study of the cases on entrepreneurs rights from the European Court of Human Rights (A.K. Soboleva, Associate Professor of SU-HSE, Chief Legal Counsel of Autonomous Non-Profit Organization Jurix)
Session: Democracy and Human Rights in the Russia-EU Dialogue. (V.G.Ledyaev; D.A. Makarov, Co-Director of International Youth Human Rights Movement)
13.00-14.00 / Lunch
14.00 – 16.30 / Work in groups
16.30-18.30 / Individual work
18.30 – 20.30 / Debate club. Debates on the Russian and international mechanism of human rights protection (D.A. Makarov, Member of the Coordination Committee of International Youth Human Rights Movement; K.A. Baranov, Development Programmes Coordinator of the International Network Young Europe).
21.00 / Meeting of the Staff and Student Organization Committee
6 august 2009, thursday
TOPIC OF THE DAY:
RUSSIA-EU DIALOGUE IN THE CONTEXT OF WORLD FINANCIAL CRISIS
8.30-9.30 / Breakfast
10.00 – 13.00 / Plenary sessions.
Session: Desription Models of the Global Financial Crisis (Professor V.N. Zuev, Head of the Chair of International Economic Organizations and European Integration of SU-HSE)
Session: Overview of the Sensitive Issues of the Russia-EU Partnership and Choice of the Topic of Final Debates (Professor N.Yu. Belyaeva, Head of the Chair of Public Policy of SU-HSE)
13.00-14.00 / Lunch
14.00 – 16.30 / Work in groups
18.30 – 20.30 / Preparation for the debates
21.00 / Meeting of the Staff and Student Organization Committee
7 august 2009, friday
TOPIC OF THE DAY:
THE PERSPECTIVES OF RUSSIA-EU RELATIONS
8.30-9.30 / Breakfast
10.00 – 14.00 / Plenary sessions.
Session: Debates
Session: Debriefing and awarding the winners
Session: Discussion of the frames and contents of the X Jubilee Summer Session Baltic Practice (country, topic, participants)
14.00-15.00 / Celebratory lunch
Closing of the session
15.00 – 22.00 / Getting to know Belgian cultural centres
8 august2009, SATURDAY
Getting to know Belgian cultural centres
09 august2009, sunday
RETURN TO MOSCOW
6.00-6.30 / Breakfast
6.30-7.00 / Trip from Bruges to Brussels
9.10 -16.50 / Flight from Brussels to Moscow
N.Yu. Belyaeva,
Academic Supervisor of
Russian-European Analytical Centre Baltic Practice
G. Petrenko,
Head of Students Organizing Committee for
the Xth Annual Visiting Session