A Soul for Europe Conference 2017
Preparatory Material

Find links to relevant contributions from our online debate for each workshop and read Volker Hassemer’s introduction here.

Have a look at Elmar Brok’s article  It is time for European citizens to take ownership of the European Union’ that serves as preparatory material for all workshops or find Collected Key Statements from the Online Debate, that provides a summary of the whole online-debate.

A Soul for Europe Conference 2017: Preparatory Material

Find links to relevant contributions from our online debate for each workshop and read Volker Hassemer’s introduction here.

Have a look at Elmar Brok’s article  It is time for European citizens to take ownership of the European Union’ that serves as preparatory material for all workshops or find Collected Key Statements from the Online Debate, that provides a summary of the whole online-debate.

Topic 3: Arts and Politics – A Good Match?

 

2:00
– 3:30

Studio C

 

Creating a European Public Sphere

Organiser: Cafébabel & n-ost
Format: Open dialogue
Active participants: François Famélie, Babel International; Katharina Kloss, Cafébabel Paris; Sébastien Vannier, Cafébabel Berlin
“We are Europe“ Group Members; Anke Plättner, Journalist
Host: Andreas Bock, Editor, n-ost

A European public sphere is a future necessity, but finds itself still in the foreign politics section of a newspaper. Although many political and social problems have a continental dimension, journalism only too focuses on the national level. We will take a look at the “European Newsroom” through the whole editorial process from a European perspective. The keyword of the workshop is “network”. We will investigate together with the audience how European ideas, stories, and angles are developed, how research in a broad European context can be organized, how the writing – and translation – and the distribution in an European framework can be constructed. Can a European public sphere lead to a common European Narrative?

Preparatory material:

 

Topic 3: Arts and Politics – A Good Match?

 

2:00 – 3:30 pm | Studio C

Creating a European Public Sphere

Organiser: Cafébabel & n-ost
Format: Open dialogue
Active participants: François Famélie, Babel International; Katharina Kloss, Cafébabel Paris; Sébastien Vannier, Cafébabel Berlin
“We are Europe“ Group Members; Anke Plättner, Journalist
Host: Andreas Bock, Editor, n-ost

A European public sphere is a future necessity, but finds itself still in the foreign politics section of a newspaper. Although many political and social problems have a continental dimension, journalism only too focuses on the national level. We will take a look at the “European Newsroom” through the whole editorial process from a European perspective. The keyword of the workshop is “network”. We will investigate together with the audience how European ideas, stories, and angles are developed, how research in a broad European context can be organized, how the writing – and translation – and the distribution in an European framework can be constructed. Can a European public sphere lead to a common European Narrative?

Preparatory material:

 

Alexander Damiano Ricci: Cities for Europe: two suggestions and one (big) paradox

  • Fostering interaction among citizens and among cities becomes key to foster the European integration project
  • To preserve the EU integration project the administrations of urban areas across Europe might prefer to put aside their international interactions and, instead, give priority to “actions” that foster economic and social cohesion with their rural surroundings.

Alexander Damiano Ricci: Cities for Europe: two suggestions and one (big) paradox

  • Fostering interaction among citizens and among cities becomes key to foster the European integration project
  • To preserve the EU integration project the administrations of urban areas across Europe might prefer to put aside their international interactions and, instead, give priority to “actions” that foster economic and social cohesion with their rural surroundings.