ciriecinternational congress may 16–19, 2010in the heart of berlin

Dear Congress Attendee,

Welcome to the city that is not only the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, but also one of the most exciting metropolisesin Europe – Welcome to the heart of Berlin!With its 28th international congress CIRIEC is addressing one of the most exciting and contemporary themes of the moment, in which stakeholders from the public and social sectors play a role of particular importance.

We wish you many interesting discussions and impulses and would be delighted if the papers and discussions at the congress prove to be helpful in your future work.

Wilhelm Georg HANSS Bernard THIRYPresident of CIRIEC-International General Director of CIRIEC-International

Programme28th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CIRIECBerlin, May 16-19, 2010

Public and social economy: a solution to the economic crisis and a support to sustainable development

CIRIEC – International Center of Research and Informationon the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy

Tuesday May 18, 2010

14.30 – 16.30 PLENARY SESSION 3 Values and ethic for a sustainable development (Room C 01)

Presidency Massimo PINCHERA, Vice President CIRIEC-International, Italia

Reports • Peter WALDORFF, General Secretary, Public services international (PSI), Denmark • Josef WIELAND, Scientifi c Director of KIeM Institute for Intercultural Management, Values and Communication, Germany • Alain ARNAUD, CEO, Banque Fédérale Mutualiste (BFM); President, Mutualité de la Fonction Publique; President, CIRIEC-France • Malika CHERTOUK-AHMED ZAID, Research Director “Evaluation of public local policy”, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, University Mouloud Mammeri, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria

16.30 – 17.00 PLENARY CLOSING SESSION (Room C 01) General Conclusions and closure of the Congress by Bernard THIRY, General Director of CIRIEC-International and Wilhelm Georg HANSS, President of CIRIEC-International

17.00 Coffee

Wednesday May 19, 2010

9.00 – 12.00 VISIT OF ENTERPRISES (Departure of the busses at 9.00 a.m. in front of the Berliner Congress Center) • Berliner Wasserbetriebe - BWB • Berliner Stadtreinigungsbetriebe - BSR • Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe - BVG • Vivantes Netzwerk für Gesundheit • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

www.ciriec-congress.org

CIRIEC Berlin Offi ce VenueTelephone: + 49 30 852 10 45 Berliner Congress CenterFax: + 49 30 852 51 11 Alexanderstraße 11email: info@bvoed.de 10178 Berlin

Schedule CIRIEC-CONGRESS-Programme (May 16-19, 2010)

Patron Klaus WOWEREITGoverning Mayor of Berlin

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Sunday May 16, 2010

16.00 Praesidium für CIRIEC-Präsidium (Room C 03)

16.00 – 18.00 Distribution of documentation

19.00 WELCOME COCKTAIL (Bärensaal, Altes Stadthaus, Jüdenstraße 42)

Monday May 17, 2010

8.00 Registration and distribution of documentation

9.00 – 10.00 PLENARY OPENING SESSION (Room C 01)

Presidency Hans-Joachim RECK, President, German Section of CIRIEC

Addresses by • Ursula HEINEN-ESSER, Parl. Secretary of State to the Federal Environment Ministry, Germany • Harald WOLF, Senator and Mayor of Berlin

Introduction to the discussions Wilhelm Georg HANSS, President of CIRIEC-International

10.00 – 11.15 PLENARY SESSION 1 Public and social economy (Room C 01) in the financial crisis

Presidency Erich HAIDER, Vice President of CIRIEC-International, Austria

Reports • Georgios DASSIS, President, Group II (Employees) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Greece • Bernard THIRY, General Director, ETHIAS, Belgium • Josep Maria AYALA, President, Instituto de Crédito Oficial, Spain 11.15 Coffee-break 11.30 – 13.00 PLENARY SESSION 2 Public and social economy in the economic crisis: what perspectives for employment (Room C 01) and sustainable development?

Presidency José Luis MONZÓN, Vice President CIRIEC-International, Spain

Reports • Jacques FOURNIER, Honorary State Councillor; Honorary President of SNCF; Honorary President of Gaz de France, France • Ewald NOWOTNY, Governor, National Bank of Austria; Former Vice-President, European Bank of Investment, Austria • Carola FISCHBACH-PYTTEL, General Secretary, EPSU • Léopold BEAULIEU, President of CIRIEC-Canada, CEO of Fondaction CSN, Canada

13.00 Lunch

16.30 Coffee-break

17.00 – 18.30 General assembly of CIRIEC (only for members) (Room B 05-B 07)

18.30 GALA-EVENING Bus departure to Gala evening in front of the Berliner Congress Center (river cruise around Berlin)

19.30 Boat departure (Treptower Park)

Tuesday May 18, 2010

WORKSHOP D (Room B 08-B 09) Public and social economy: responsibilitiesin training and education

PresidencyFrank SCHULZ-NIESWANDT, University of Cologne, CIRIEC-Germany

• which role for the public and social economy? • which challenges? • which policies can be implemented?• achievements and best practices WORKSHOP D.1 (Room B 08-B 09)Public policies in training and education

• Hajime IMAMURA, Professor at Toyo University (Tokyo), Vice President of CIRIEC-Japan• Nevzat AYPEK, President of the Cooperative Association of Turkey, Professor at the Gazi University, CIRIEC-Turkey• Benito DÍAZ, Professor at the Universidad de los Andes – ULA – Trujillo, CIRIEC-Venezuela

WORKSHOP D.2 (Room B 08-B 09)Initiatives and best practices in trainingand education

• Prof. Marietta BUCHELI, Director of the Institute of Rural Studies of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana & Colombia • PÉREZ MUÑOZ, Director of the National Planning of the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, CIRIEC-Colombia• Peter MÜLLER-MARSCHHAUSEN, General Manager of Leipziger Aus- und Weiterbildungsbetriebe, Germany• Jorge de SÁ, Professor, Higher Institute for Social and Political Science, Portugal • Rolf LINDAHL, Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan, Sweden

10.30 Coffee-break

12.30 Lunch

11.00 – 12.30 WORKSHOP C.2 (Room B 05-B 07) Sustainable territorial development

• Mireille FLAM, Vice-President of FNSEM, France • Carolina ANDION, Professor, University of the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil • Pavlos KALOSINATOS, General Director, Cyprus Labour Institute (INEK-PEO), Cyprus

9.00 – 12.30 WORKSHOP C (Room B 05-B 07) Public and social economy: partner for sustainable environmental development

Presidency Gabriel OBERMANN, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, CIRIEC-Austria

• initiatives in favour of climate and energy savings • initiatives in terms of urban planning and to raise quality of living • responsibility in terms of recycling

9.00 – 10.30 WORKSHOP C.1 (Room B 05-B 07) Innovations and environmental techniques

• Kenichi NAKAGAMI, Professor, Ritsumeikan University; President of CIRIEC-Japan • Antonio MASSARUTTO, Professor, University of Udine, IEFE-Università Bocconi di Milano, Italy • Vera GÄDE-BUTZLAFF, President of the Manage- ment Board, Berliner Enterprises of Waste Manage- ment and Urban Cleaning (BSR), Germany

14.00 – 14.30 «EDGARD-MILHAUD-AWARD» Award by Leona DETIÈGE and Wilhelm Georg HANSS (Room C 01) Short presentation of the awarded work „On analysing drinking water monopolies by robust non-parametric efficiency estimation“ by the Prize winner: Kristof DE WITTE, Maastricht University, Leuven University and Amsterdam University, Belgium

14.00 – 16.30 WORKSHOP A (Room B 05-B 07) The financing of public and social economy

• the financing of public services and services of general interest • the financing of the development of cooperatives and mutuals

Presidency Giuseppe BOGNETTI, University of Milan, CIRIEC-Italy

Reports Christian VIAENE, General Director of IBE-IBG, Belgium / Jacques DAOUST, President and CEO, Investissement Québec, Canada / Gabriele PAYR, General Director, Wiener Stadtwerke Holding AG, Austria / Massimo FLORIO, Professor, Università di Milano, Italy / Mario FAGIOLO, Professor at the Universidad de Oriente – UDO – Sucre, President of CIRIEC-Venezuela

WORKSHOP B (Room B 08-B 09)Public and social economy: stabilisation factorof the employment market

• which contributions to sustainable and high quality employment?• which ways to prevent lay-offs?

PresidencyMarie BOUCHARD, Université of Quebec in Montreal, CIRIEC-Canada

ReportsD. Juan José BARRERA CEREZAL, General Director for Social Economy, Self-employment and the Corporate Social Responsability, Ministry of Labour and Immig-ration, Spain / Alfons LEROY, General Administrator of VDAB, Belgium / Anne-Marie PERRET, President of EPSU, France / Carl CEDERSCHIÖLD, President of CEEP (Sweden) / José Pablo PUZINO, President ofCIRIEC-Argentina

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