Program - draft Sunday, 1 February 2009 19.00 hrs Seminar starts ...

Program - draft
Sunday, 1 February 2009
19.00 hrs Seminar starts with dinner
20.00 hrs Welcome and introduction to the
program
ANDREA DESPOT
Seminar Director
PROF. DR. MARA GUBAIDULLINA
Almaty, Kasakhstan
19.00 hrs dinner
Monday, 2 February 2009
09.00 hrs The German-Kazakh Association
HEDI WEGENER
Member of the German Bundestag,
Chairwoman of the German-Kazakh
Association (confirmed)
10.00 hrs coffee
10.30 hrs Elections to the European Parliament
and to the German Bundestag:
Differences and similarities
PROF. DR. ECKART D.
STRATENSCHULTE
Director of the European Academy Berlin
(confirmed)
13.00 hrs lunch
14.00 hrs Participation and campaigning in civil
societies
DIPL.-POL. STEFAN KÄGEBEIN
Political Scientist (confirmed)
16.00 hrs Panel Discussion –
Democracy in Europe and Kazakhstan
18.00 hrs dinner
MARGIT HELLWIG-BOETTE
Federal Foreign Office (confirmed)
DR. ADILBEK ALZHANOV
Envoy of the embassy of the Kazakh
Republic in Germany (confirmed)
DIPL.-POL. STEFAN KÄGEBEIN
Political Scientist (confirmed)
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
09.00 hrs The new Berlin
Guided city tour with reference to politics
and history
12.00 hrs lunch
14.00 hrs VISIT OF THE GERMAN BUNDESTAG
Introduction and reception through
BEATRIX KÜHL-MEYER followed by a
Guided tour (confirmed)
Address: Südeingang des
Reichstagsgebäudes, Scheidemannstraße,
10557 Berlin
16.00 hrs VISIT OF THE FEDERAL FOREIGN OFFICE
Public Diplomacy in the 21st century
JOACHIM FREIHERR MARSCHALL VON
BIEBERSTEIN (confirmed)
Address: Haupteingang (Lichthof im Neubau),
Werderscher Markt 1, 10117 Berlin
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
09.00 hrs The EU suffering from crisis following
the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty?
DR. BARBARA LIPPERT (tbc)
Insitute for European Politics
12.00 hrs lunch
13.00 hrs The EU’s Common Foreign and
Security Policy (CFCP)
DR. MECHTHILD BAUMANN
Institute for Migration and Security Studies
(confirmed)
18.00 hrs dinner
Thursday, 5 February 2009
09.00 hrs Kazakhstan’s view towards the EU:
Hopes and expectations
PROF. DR. MARA GUBAIDULLINA
(confirmed)
12.00 hrs lunch
13.30 hrs Transformation and democratization
processes – Lessons learned
ANDREA DESPOT (confirmed)
European Academy Berlin
18.00 hrs dinner
Freitag, 6 February 2009
9.15 hrs Visit of Freie Universität (FU)
International Bureau of the Freie
Universität
Talk with Herr Giebian (tbc)
11.00 hrs Visit of Hertie School of Governance
Talk with
Hanneli Ebding (tbc)
13.00 hrs lunch
15.00 hrs Visit of DAAD
German Academic Exchange Service
Talk with
DANIEL ZIMMERMANN (confirmed)
Address: Markgrafenstraße 37, Wissenschafts
Forum Berlin, 10117 Berlin
Saturday, 7 February 2009
9.00 hrs Evaluation of the seminar and wrap-up
ANDREA DESPOT
PROF. DR. MARA GUBAIDULLINA
End of seminar
Seminar Directors:
ANDREA DESPOT, European Academy Berlin
PROF. DR. MARA GUBAIDULLINA, National Kazakh Al-
Farabi University Almaty, Kazakhstan
as of 19/1

Public transport:
By plane:
From Tegel (TXL) airport: take Bus 109 to
Adenauerplatz/Kurfürstendamm. Change there to Bus M19 (leaving
from the opposite side of the street). Take bus marked 'S-Bhf
Grunewald' or 'Hagenplatz' and get off at 'Hagenplatz/
Taubertstraße'. There turn left, the second street on the right will be
Bismarckallee.
From Schönefeld airport (SXF) : either take fast train S9 (direction
'S Spandau DB') to ‘Westkreuz’; change to fast train S7 (direction
‘Wannsee’) to 'S Grunewald' and continue with bus line M19
(direction U Mehringdamm') to 'Taubertstraße’. (75 min.)
take S 9 direction Spandau DB to S’Treptower Park’ or ‘Ostkreuz’,
change to S 41 or S 42 (Ring-Line) direction 'S+U Gesundbrunnen'
to 'S Halensee' and change to bus M19 (direction 'S
Grunewald/Hagenplatz') to 'Taubertstraße''. (65 min.)
From Tempelhof airport (THF): take Bus 104 marked' Neu-
Westend' and get off at 'Rathenauplatz, change there to Bus M19'
and follow the directions as above.
By train:
From Central Station ‘Hauptbahnhof - Lehrter Bahnhof’:
take fast train S7 (direction 'Wannsee-Bhf' or ‚Potsdam-Hbf’) to S
‚Grunewald’or S9 or S75 or S5 (direction 'S Spandau DB') to
‘Westkreuz’; change to fast train S7 (direction ‘Wannsee’) to 'S
Grunewald' and continue with bus line M19 (direction U
Mehringdamm') to 'Taubertstraße’. (25 min.)
From 'Zoologischer Garten' railway station:
either take fast train S9 or S75 or S5 (direction 'S Spandau DB') to
‘Westkreuz’; change to fast train S7 (direction ‘Wannsee’) to 'S
Grunewald' and continue with bus line M19 (direction U
Mehringdamm') to 'Taubertstraße’..
or take bus 109 (direction 'Flughafen Tegel') to 'U Adenauerplatz'
and continue with bus M19 (direction 'S Grunewald/Hagenplatz') to
'Taubertstraße''. (20 min.)
From 'Lichtenberg' oder 'Ostbahnhof' railway station:
take fast train S9 or S75 or S5 (direction 'S Spandau DB') to
‘Westkreuz’; change to fast train S7 (direction ‘Wannsee’) to 'S
Grunewald' and follow the directions as above.
From 'Wannsee' S-Bahn station:
take S7 in the direction of 'Westkreuz', get off at 'Grunewald' station
and continue with bus M19 (direction 'U Mehringdamm') to
'Taubertstraße'. (15 min.)
By train (from easterly direction):
From 'Lichtenberg' railway station: take the S-Bahn (line S75) in
the direction of 'Spandau Bhf’; change to train S7 (direction
‘Wannsee’) to 'S Grunewald'. Get off at 'Grunewald' station and
follow the directions as above.
By train (from westerly direction):
From 'Zoologischer Garten' railway station: either take
S-Bahn (line 7 direction Wannsee DB) and get off at 'Grunewald'
station or walk to Kurfürstendamm (about 400 m) and take Bus
M19 at the streetcorner of Kurfürstendamm and Joachimstaler
Straße and follow the directions as above.
From 'Wannsee' S-Bahn station: take S-Bahn (line S7) in the
direction of 'Ahrensfelde', get off at 'Grunewald' station and follow
the directions as above.
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Co-financed by the European Union within
the programme "Europe for Citizens" 2007
– 2013.
Board:
Dr. Peter-Jörg Klein (Chairman of the Board)
Petra Merkel, MP, (Deputy Chairwoman)
Prof. Dr. Eckart D. Stratenschulte (Deputy, Managing Director)
Director of the Academy: Prof. Dr. Eckart D. Stratenschulte
Seminar Directors:
Dr. Mechthild Baumann
Andrea Despot
Dr. Jaroslav Šonka
Project Managers:
Ute Böhr, Carolin Krauss, Ilona Rathert
Secretary of the Institute of European Teacher Training:
Ilona Rathert
Reception Manager: Tina Lißner
Desk officerFinances: Margarete Neckerauer
Administration: Heide Schlaf
Catering Manager: Renate Krauß
Librarian: Dipl.-Bibl. Petra Zeschke
Managing Director of the European Academy of the
Urban Environment (EA.UE): Prof. Dr. Hanns-Uve Schwedler
Project Assistant of the EA. UE: Jenny Johnson
Program - draft
DEMOCRACY IN GERMANY AND
EUROPE
Seminar for students from Kazakhstan
supported by the Foreign Ministry, Berlin
1 - 7 February 2009
The conference is held in English.