The Transport Research Arena (TRA) is the European forum in which over 1,000 experts and interested parties exchange knowledge regarding innovation, research and development in the transport sector and the road construction industry. This time the theme is “greener, smarter and safer”.
This High Level Group will meet in the Flemish Parliament in Brussels on 25 June 2010.
At this informal meeting senior civil servants of the 27 member states, the European Commission and the Council will discuss important issues, such as the Europe 2020 strategy and European Summit in June.
Theater der Welt is the most important festival in Germany in the field of music and the performing arts. In the year when Essen, together with the entire Ruhr area, was declared European Capital of Culture, the Ruhr Metropolis provides a unique platform where global issues are on offer in conjunction with art, politics and identity. Frie Leysen is the festival director.
The building of the Council of the European Union in Brussels is being decorated in an original way for the occasion of the Belgian EU presidency. Famous fashion designers have designed silhouettes with clothing donated from the Spullenhulp/Petits Riens depot, a charity that collects old objects for the benefit of social projects. This initiative highlights the European Year 2010 for combating poverty and social exclusion. Alongside the silhouettes that can be admired throughout the whole Council Building, there is also a photography exhibition on "the making of" of the designs.
The Musical Gardens Festival is an annual music festival in Warsaw which will celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2010. In 2010, the focus will be extensively on the Belgian EU presidency. At the start of the new EU presidency in July attention will turn to the opportunities for the new president. Films about opera, ballet and art will be shown three days a week. Flemish dance theatre will also be extensively represented.
The first meeting of the European Education Committee under the Belgian Presidency will take place on 1 and 2 July, 2010 in Ostend. During this conference the Belgian Presidency will present its programme and working methods. The programme contains a number of important points that deserve special attention, such as learning mobility, education in the field of sustainable development, schools of the 21st century, social inclusion, quality assurance and transparency within European education.
It is our ambition to create a forum where European policy makers, scientists and intermediaries can meet each other. They will be able to focus on the historical dimension of youth work and youth policy, without losing sight of the current youth policy, during a debate and various workshops. As well as geographical differences, the people present will also have backgrounds in different disciplines. This creates a good mixture, and forms the ideal introduction to the First European Youth Work Convention (7 - 10 July 2010).
This Convention will focus on the role of youth work: to make the various advantages, needs, characteristics, strengths and contributions to society visible, and to provide a stimulus for a future agenda and action plan. The Convention intends to accomplish this together with the youth workers and youth organisations themselves, but also with governments and researchers from the 49 countries of the Council of Europe. This Pan-European approach to the convention aims to strengthen youth work across Europe by stimulating networking, mutual understanding, reflection and learning, and by issuing a declaration.
To celebrate Belgium’s EU presidency, concerts will be held in eight Flemish cities during July and August. These events are part of an eight-part television series, “Flanders Music Land”, which will be broadcast over eight weeks on Friday evening on the Flemish public broadcasting channel, One. Each week, a Flemish city will focus on a different European country. Come to Dendermonde on 9th July and discover Italy.
