How can we guarantee a sustainable society with the economy in a downturn? Will we support our neighbours’ fight for democracy, or will we watch from the sidelines? Will we be able to uphold our democracies when populists try and bend the law to their will? Will we vanquish the financial turmoil by harmonising our economic policies?
Failure to address these challenges risks pushing Europe to breaking point. This is why we decided to open the Summer University under this year’s motto “Europe – Make it or break it”. In order to forge solutions that hold Europe together, the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament and the European Green Party invite you to the Viadrina University in Frankfurt/Oder (D) and the Collegicum Polonicum in Słubice (PL) from September 8th-11th 2011.
All of you with a critical and creative mind are invited, young and old, experts, scientists and managers, artists and trade unionists, intellectuals and students, civil society representatives, Greens, Blues, Reds, Blacks, Pinks and friends.
The second European Green Summer University will offer a forum to all those who want an open and sustainable Europe, a Europe united in solidarity, a Europe strong for its citizens, and responsible to the world.
The Summer University is more than just a conference: we will have four plenary sessions, where big minds put their views on Europe’s future to discussion. In addition, we and our partners will organise workshops that involve you and your skills, your contributions and convictions. In this big laboratory of ideas, we want to cook up new answers, develop solutions, distil concepts. We want to create change, to produce progress, to fabricate the future. We will listen and watch, read and talk about your views on how we can make Europe…and not break it.
You can also expect a relaxed environment with fun and music, culture and company. We explicitly chose to host this event, not in one of the big European capitals, but in a place where a common university and a highly symbolic bridge joins Europe together on the border of Poland and Germany: Frankfurt/Oder and Słubice.
Source: green-summer-university.eu
Martina Schmieder
