Youth conference
 "Ecocity"

PROGRAM
13th of September, 2003, Riga Congress Centre

8.30-9.00 Registration

9.00-9.30 Opening of the conference
Gundars Bojars, the chairman of Riga City Council
Welcoming speech by the heard of European Commission delegation in Latvia Endrew Rasbash

9.30-10.45 Plenary session

Presentations:

• The introduction of the EU environmental policy in Latvia: practical work
Rolands Arturs Bebris, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, the head of Environmental Protection department, Latvia

• Water resources in the city
Victor Juhna, Rīgas Ūdens production director

• The role of municipalities in the improvement situation in the city
Ieva Liepiņa, Agenda 21

10.45-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-12.30 Interactive business game "TILTS"
the goal of this game is to make 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 lifes, 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.

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.00 Presentation of results of the game "TILTS"

14.00-15.00 Seminar "Education possibilities in the European Union"

Presentations:

Education tendences in the European Union
Aleksandra Joma, Professional Orientation and Information Center

Informal education in the European Union
Kristine Tihanova, Youth International Programs Agency

15.00-15.15 Coffee break

15.15-17.00 Presentation of youth projects in workshops

17.00-18.00 Closing of the conference

19.00 Closing event in "Akvalande"