Green European Foundation

“Europe after Brexit. Will a green transition still be possible?” (Poland)
2017-07-14 10:00 - 11:30 (Europe/Brussels) | Puszczykowo, Poland, Puszczykowo , 62-040, Poland
Theme:
Brexit will have a huge impact on the UK and EU economies and on virtually every area of policy, which increases the need for public discussion of that impact and the choices that will have to be made to deal with it. Beyond that, it calls into question the coherence and effectiveness of the EU as a polity, and as a vehicle for the Green movement. Greens are committed to the belief that European countries can make the transition to sustainability more quickly as a coordinated polity (the EU) than as individual states or societies but this assumption may need to be re-examined.
The event is a part of the ongoing transnational project “The potential impact of Brexit on the prospects for a Green transition in Europe” which attempts to support the much-needed public discussion of Brexit’s impact on individual Member States, as well as on the EU level, while exploring what this means for the Green movements’ endeavour in the transition to sustainability.
This debate took place during the Green Summer Academy in Puszczykowo, Poland, organised with the support of Fundacja Strefa Zieleni. It featured a discussion amongst prominent politicians and experts listed below. The debate was moderated by Ewa Sufin-Jacquemart (Fundacja Strefa Zielenie) and Bartłomiej Kozek (Editorial Board Green European Journal).
Speakers:

Video introduction by Philippe Lamberts (MEP Greens/EFA);
Debate with Dr Ray Cunningham (Green House Think Tank, UK), Lucile Schmid (GEF/Fondation de l’Écolgie Politique, France), Marek Kossakowski (Partia Zieloni), Kuba Gogolewski (Koalicja Rozwój TAK – odkrywki NIE).

Registration:
To register for the Summer Academy of Fundacja Strefa Zieleni, please send an email to: Ewa Sufin-Jacquemart at ewa.sufin@strefazieleni.org

Hope and cope - Green Summer Academy in Poland
2017-07-13 - 2017-07-17
Context:
We meet in an extremely important year for EU, with the Brexit negotiations, the elections in France, Germany and Netherlands, the unpredictability of the new US President Donald Trump and the crisis of democracy in Poland and Hungary. This generates various factors that will directly and indirectly impact the progress of the global climate policy and the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Next year’s municipal election in Poland makes us focus on the role of regions and cities in the transition to low carbon societies, and other progressive transformations. We checked if the European Pact of Amsterdam can play a role in this transition. One of the cornerstones of the green vision of the world is sustainable development, for which the preservation of pure environment and of nature rich in biodiversity for the future generations is as important as the short term economic efficiency and social justice.
Therefore, our Green Summer Universities gave the participants an opportunity to enter into a direct relationship with living nature and thus provide them with additional knowledge, sensitivity and motivation for its protection and political representation of its interests. Due to the mega projects of transeuropean waterways that threat the principal Polish rivers, together with badly implemented Water Frame Directive, the water ecosystems were at the center of the ecological outdoor expeditions during this third Green Summer Academy, located in the heart of the Natural Park of Great Poland.
Programme:
The three day event consisted of lectures, debates and practical workshops focusing on the following themes:

Puszczykowo theme;
Green economy seminar;
Green and progressive city, local governance theme;
Skills and empowerment;
Climate change and Paris Agreement theme;
Public debate in Poznań.

This summer school was executed with the support of the Green European Foundation and Heinrich Böll Foundation in Warsaw.
Registration: Via email to ewa.sufin@strefazieleni.org
Date: 13 to 16 July 2017
Place: Puszczykowo near Poznan, Poland
