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8
Nov
2019
 
10
Nov
2019
 
Plitvička Jezera 53231 Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)

Join us in Croatia for our Green Academy Winter Seminar exploring how degrowth concepts could contribute to a radical just and sustainable societal transition.

About the Event

The Green European Foundation, in cooperation with the Institute for Political Ecology, the Open Society Initiative for Europe and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung – Prague office, is organising the 3rd edition of the Green Academy Winter Seminar.

The seminar will focus on the ongoing debates around the Green New Deal and degrowth concepts and practices in the context of the climate emergency. Deeper avenues to be explored will look at the theoretical, political and practical level and identify convergencies and conflicts. The seminar will allow for exchanges to develop strategies for concrete change and policies.

Participants will be introduced to “degrowth doughnut” visualisations, underlining the cultural excesses and shortfalls in a democratic construction of a degrowth transition.

A “kaleidoscopic” perspective of the movement and various interconnections and differences will explore specific sectors where degrowth can make a fundamental difference, while also considering the significance of the emerging Green New Deal policies on both sides of the Atlantic.

Demands for a socially just and planned transition need to be articulated precisely in order to head off reactionary responses to the climate emergency. And this we shall redesign as we go, for the further Europeans slide into climate chaos without establishing a convivial sociality, the more likely we are to contend with authoritarian and inegalitarian powers to which emergency conditions often give rise.

The politics of this historical dynamic – the actors, alliances, institutions and social processes creating degrowth transitions is the subject of lively debate in Europe and beyond, shaping up right before our eyes. Given the fact that in 2020 Croatia will take over the EU Presidency, we will aim to explore ways how our thinking and actions can become turning points for Europe to be able to take another course.

Programme

FRIDAY 8th OF NOVEMBER

15:00 DEPARTURE FROM ZAGREB (ORGANISED BUS TRANSPORT – PARKING NEXT TO MAIN TRAIN STATION (ACCROSS IMPORTANE CENTRE ENTRANCE)

17:15 ARRIVAL TO HOTEL – CHECK-IN AND REGISTRATION

18:00 WELCOME NOTE AND INTRODUCTION

Vedran Horvat, IPE Zagreb, Head/Board of Directors, GEF

Nino Lejava, HBS, Head of Prague office

Jagoda Munić, FoEE, Director, Bruxelles/GA program council

Danijela Dolenec, Faculty of Political Sciences, Associate Professor,Zagreb/GA program council

Presentation of working groups: Clara Dellaire-Fortier, Nikolina Rajković, Andro Rilović, Ajda Pistotnik

EVENING CONVERSATION: ”DEGROWTH MOVEMENT, THOUGHT AND ACTION IN THE MIDST OF CLIMATE COLLAPS”

Evening conversation with Vincent Liegey, Cargonomia, Hungary/France

20:00 DINNER

SATURDAY 9TH OF NOVEMBER

09:00 MORNING LECTURETiziano Distefano

”Social cohesion in the ecological transition”

10:00 MORNING PANEL

GREEN NEW DEAL AND DEGROWTH – REAL-EXISTING UTOPIAS IN ACTION

With: Sean Sweney (TUED), Pawel Wargan (DiEM25), Marija Bartl (UA), Jagoda Munić (FoEE)

Moderated by: Danijela Dolenec and Vedran Horvat

11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 WORKING GROUPS 1

  1. LABOR, DEMOCRACY AND DEGROWTH (Clara Dallaire-Fortier & Nina Rajković with Dario Farcy, Sean Sweney and Marija Bartl)
  2. DEGROWTH AND DEBT (Ajda Pistotnik with Mark Perreira and Tilman Hartley)
  3. DEGROWTH (&) MUNICIPALISM (Andro Rilović with Eugen Vuković, Eleanor Finley, Vincent Liegey)

13:30 LUNCH BREAK & WALK

17:30 WORKING GROUPS 2

  1. LABOR, DEMOCRACY AND DEGROWTH (Clara Dallaire Fortier & Nina Rajković with Dario Farcy, Sean Sweney and Marija Bartl)
  2. DEGROWTH AND DEBT (Ajda Pistotnik with Mark Perreira and Tilman Hartley)
  3. DEGROWTH (&) MUNICIPALISM (Andro Rilović with Eugen Vuković, Eleanor Finley, Vincent Liegey)

19:30 DINNER

21:00 DONUTS AND WINE EVENING TALK ON SUSTAINABILITY ON EUROPEAN (SEMI)PERIPHERY

  • Mladen Domazet
  • Clara Dallaire-Forter
  • Jenny Ufer
  • Branko Ančić

SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER

09:00 MORNING LECTURE

Petr Jiehlička, Open University, UK

Degrowth lessons from the European East: self-provisioning, sharing and the resilient food system

10:00 WORKING GROUPS 3

  1. LABOR, DEMOCRACY AND DEGROWTH (Clara Dallaire Fortier & Nina Rajković with Dario Farcy, Sean Sweney and Marija Bartl)
  2. DEGROWTH AND DEBT (Ajda Pistotnik with Mark Perreira and Tilman Hartley)
  3. DEGROWTH (&) MUNICIPALISM (Andro Rilović with Eugen Vuković, Eleanor Finley, Vincent Liegey)

11:30 BREAK

12:00 REPORTS FROM WORKING GROUPS

12:30 Post-growth awakening for EU: positioning degrowth agenda and international cooperation on climate action within the context of EU Croatian Presidency

Moderation: Dražen Šimleša

13:15 Closing

13:30 Lunch

14:30 Departure to Zagreb

17:00 estimated arrival


This event is a cooperation between the Institute for Political Ecology, the Green European Foundation, the Open Society Initiative for Europe and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Prague office, with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation.

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Plitvička Jezera 53231 Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)

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