Opening of the conference
Gundars Jirgensons, Chairman of Education, Youth and Sports committee of Riga City Council

Welcoming speeches
Ann Uustalu, Head of PHARE team of European Commission delegation in Latvia
Nils Muižnieks, Minister for Special Assignments for Society Integration Affairs

Interactive business game "The high - rise building"

The goal of this game is to make the participants pay attention to problems and misunderstandings arising in the process of planning the development of city. The clean environment problems are met everywhere and this seriously influences quality of our life. We are the formers and active users of the environment. Making decisions we must be conscious of their impacts that affect not only our lives, but also the surrounding environment. The game helps the participants to enter into the spirit of situations and roles that they are not use to face up to in everyday life. This allows to consider things from another point of view. The game does not offer the right and wrong answers, but motivates the participants to take an action considering certain situation, to achieve certain goals forming the optimal environmental model, which would not be in contradiction with the participants' role in the game.

Seminar:
"Youth participation opportunities in Non - governmental organizations in Latvia and Europe"

• National Youth Council of Latvia, speaker:  Ieva Kasemira
• Student Projects’ Initiative center, speaker: Oskars Žīgurs
• Club "The House" - Youth for United Europe

• Surrounding Environment and Sustainable Development
• Social integration and participation of the population in the desition making process of city sustainable development;
• Water quality in Baltic Sea Port cities and Seashores;
• Water supply in the city: problems and suggestions.