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W e lc o m e s th e W e a r e
Europeans tour,
“On the trail of the Founding Fathers”
April 28 & 29, 2011
We are Europeans 28th April 29th April
project House of Jean Monnet CIEP, Sèvres
(bazoches sur Guyonne)
Compulsory registration
PRESENTATION Compulsory registration
9:30 – 12:30 Official Conference on benefits
13:00 – 14:00 Presentation of the project
14:00 and challenges of EU enlargement to South-
“We are Europeans” and Lecture on the Eastern European countries
The main strategic aim of the project
biography and European contribution of
initiated by Polska Fundacja im. TIMELINE Jean Monnet With H.E MIRKO Galić, Ambassador of
Roberta Schumana is to familiarize Croatia
citizens of the European Union with During a 17-day long, two-route bus tour 14:00 – 15:45 Conference panel on the H.E RADOVIC Irena, Ambassador of
the contemporary reality of (EuropeTour) starting and ending in Western Balkan accession to the EU Montenegro
candidate and potential candidate Warsaw one representative of each of With Natasha WUNSCH, Research Fellow H.E SAHOVIC Almir, Ambassador of
the six participating SEE countries at the German Council on Foreign Relation Bosnia-Herzegovina
countries in South-Eastern Europe
(Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, “European Integration process in Balkans H.E SEREBRIAN Oleg, Ambassador of
(SEE), thereby illustrating their and problems faced » Moldavia
Croatia, Former Yugoslavian Republic of
potential as possible future member
Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia)
states. Philippe PERCHOC, Professor at Science Po Alain BARRAU, Director of the European
together with a tour guide and
With „We are Europeans“ it Paris and Paris III and President and chief Parliament Information Desk in France
photographer will meet face to face with Natasha WUNSCH, Research Fellow at the
editor of Nouvelle Europe
establishes opportunities for citizens of Austria, the Czech Republic, German Council on Foreign Relations
European citizens to engage in peer France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands One member of the Jean Monnet
contact and intercultural dialogue. It and Poland. They take part in common Association
intends to stimulate a constructive activities of representational, 13:00-
13:00-19:00 Annual Conference of the
European debate about the benefits intercultural and informal kind (e.g. 16:00
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break Master of European Affairs, Sciences Po
debates, conferences, local community Paris “CANDIDATE COUNTRIES: WITH
and challenges of future
meetings, sports activities and 16:00 – 17:45 Open Debate OR WITHOUT YOU?”
enlargement. Offering balanced and With We are €uropeans’ group
performances).
first-hand information about the Students of the Master degree in European
Alongside with approx. 100 NGO
contemporary situation and long- Affairs, Paris III University
representatives, politicians, experts and
term changes in SEE countries is a Students of the Master degree in European
journalists, our participants will Affairs, Sciences Po Paris
prerequisite for promoting mutual subsequently be part of a one-day
understanding and tolerance. international conference on EU 17:45 – 18:15 Cocktail and Press Conference
enlargement in Warsaw summing up the
results of the project. This series of
international street events will be CONTACT/ INSCRIPTION
concluded by the participants presenting
the project during the “Schuman Parade” Aude LEROY, project manager
and its European Village in Warsaw on 7 leroy@ajmonnet.eu
May 2011. +33 (0)1 56 33 71 00
Jean Monnet Association The Polish Robert Schuman
In 1987, former colleagues and close friends of Foundation
Jean Monnet formed the “Friends of Jean The Robert Schuman Foundation of Poland was
Monnet Association”. The Association was established in 1991. Basing its work on the
empowered to communicate any information symbolic figure of Robert Schuman - a man of
that would increase awareness of Jean Monnet's great vision and great actions, a thinker and
work and ensure that his name live on. It also statesman, an economic activist and one of the
contributed its support for all activities and Founding Fathers of a new Europe - The Robert
projects aimed at reviving and transmitting the Schuman Foundation of Poland goal is to
memory of Jean Monnet, his work and his mobilize citizens to engage in the process of
teachings. The first President of the Association uniting Europe.
was Etienne Hirsch, former President of Euratom,
a close collaborator of Jean Monnet, the The Foundation is developing programs which
European Parliament bought the Jean Monnet inform people about the advantage of the
House and the Friends of Jean Monnet changes provided by membership in the EU and
Association undertook the responsibility of co-operates with many societies in the Union
recreating the lifestyle of Jean Monnet in his and outside of it in order to better understand
Houjarray House, transformed into a museum. and respect shared democratic values. The
Robert Schumann Foundation of Poland, within
In 1990, the name of the Association was its statutory activity, carries out educational
shortened to the “Jean Monnet Association”. The programs and in its work concentrates on three
same year, the European Parliament, entrusted main issues.
the former with administration of the House and
the organization of the various programs to The first one is to promote the idea of European
receive visitors and acquaint them with “the integration and European education. The Civic
House where Europe was born” and the history of Program focuses on societal motivation of
the European Community. Then, the Association citizens and promoting democratic, and civic
implemented and developed educational and values. The goal of this component is to
informative presentations concerning the encourage active participation in civil society,
construction of Europe at the Jean Monnet inclusion in public life, in activities on behalf of
House. the local community, volunteer work. Finally, the
Eastern Program aimed to share experiences of
The House receives an average of more than the process of European integration as well as
12,000 visitors each year, among which a variety societal, political, and economic transformation
of individuals, groups, associations and students of the countries of Eastern Europe, the Balkans
from all 27 member States and the rest of the and the Caucasus that do not yet belong to the
world. Visitors, teachers in particular, greatly European Union.
enjoy these visits, observing that the return to the
roots of European construction in the House of
one of its founders makes it possible to better
understand today's Europe and to envision that
of tomorrow.
Since November 2008, Isabelle Bénoliel,
graduate in Higher European and Law Studies of
the Collège d’Europe in Bruges, is President of
the Association.
Association Jean Monnet
Today the Association wishes to expand its 9 bis rue Georges berger
network of partners in Europe in order to build PARIS, F 75017
transnational projects and explore new fields of
cooperation.
Téléphone +33 (0)1 563 371 00
http://www.ajmonnet.eu
