11/19/2020 - 14:30 - 11/20/2020 - 18:00
Bologna – Italy
ECCAR General Conference - CommunicAction – Together to protect human rights at the local level organized by the City of Bologna
19 and 20 November 2020
Programme
19 November 2020
14:30-15.00
Welcome greetings
Virginio Merola, Mayor of Bologna
Elly Schlein, Vice-President of the Emilia-Romagna Region
Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO
Benedetto Zacchiroli, President of the ECCAR
15.00-15.50
Dialogue between Karen Taylor, ENAR Chair and Magid Magid, activist, author and former
MEP
The taboo’s on racism and discriminations in the European political and institutional discourse
15.50-16.00
Break - Creattivism – New Sights Against Discriminations***
16.00-17.15
Mayors Roundtable Going beyond EU Law: the role of local authorities in the field of education, youth and
communication in shaping inclusive cities
Virginio Merola, Mayor of Bologna
Isabella Conti, Mayor of San Lazzaro, Bologna
Milan Trivic, Deputy-Mayor of Sarajevo
Marco Giusta, Deputy-Mayor, Torino
Ted Wheeler, Mayor of Portland, Oregon, USA (video-message)
Chiara Appendino, Mayor of Torino (video-message)
Chair: Giuseppina Marcante, journalist
20 November 2020
9:45-11.00
Opening session Together to protect human rights at the local level: European institutions, international organisations, cities, media and young generations
Welcome greetings and Chair: Marco Lombardo, Deputy Mayor on International relations and projects, Employment, Civil society
Helena Dalli, EC Commissioner for Equality, Opening key-note address (video-message)
Lucia Serena Rossi, Judge, European Court of Justice: The state of art on the protection of the right to equality in Europe
Michael O’Flaherty, Director, EU Fundamental Rights Agency: Fundamental Rights Survey: EU citizens’ attitude towards human rights (video-message)
Lucila Rodríguez-Alarcón, General Director Por Causa Foundation: The role of Communication - public, institutional, media - to build inclusive societies
Wissal Houbabi, activist, writer, artist, intercultural worker at Trama di Terre: An intersectional approach on systemic racism: starting from myself, together with the women with whom I resist every day.
11:00-11:15
Moving towards the Working Groups, working sessions among cities and other stakeholders
11:15-13.00
Parallel Working Groups
1) Speaking up! Youth and media voices and narratives to communicate new cities**
Moderator: Neva Cocchi, We World-GVC onlus, CIAK MIGRACTION Project
Contributions by the cities of Athens, Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Kadikoy
2) Protecting vulnerable groups. A focus on the dimensions of education, youth and communication in the fight against discriminations towards Muslims at the local level
Moderator: Tommaso Chiamparino, Fundamental Rights Policy, DG Justice and Consumers, European Commission
Contributions by the cities of Barcelona, Berlin, Bologna, Cologne, Heidelberg, Helsingborg
3) The role of cities to ensure access to housing in the rental market
Moderators: Katrien Staelens, City of Gent and Prof. Dr. Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Contributions by the cities of Barcelona, Berlin, Bologna, Genk, Liège, Malmo, Rotterdam
13.00-14.00
Break - Creattivism - New Sights Against Discriminations***
14:00-15.35
15.35-15.40
Working groups continuation
Moving back to the plenary
15.40-16.10
Reporting in plenary
16.10-16.20
Federica Zito, Cefa onlus: Presentation of the video “Against All Discriminations”, #sonofattituoi Campaign, produced by the Italian Newspaper Fanpage in collaboration with Cefa onlus as part of the Pinocchio Project: Culture, sport, civic participation and social networks against discrimination for greater social inclusion
16.20-16.30
Break
16.30-17.15
Anti-racism, interculturalism and social inclusion: a long-due alliance to ensure social justice?
Dialogue:
Irena Guidikova, Intercultural cities network, Council of Europe
Danijel Cubelic, ECCAR Vice-president, City of Heidelberg
Chris Tomesani, Welfare Area, City of Bologna
Moderator: Lucia Fresa, ECCAR Contact point, City of Bologna
17.15-17.40
Closing remarks
Triantafillos Loukarelis, UNAR Director, Italian National Office Against Racial Discriminations
Susanna Zaccaria, City of Bologna Deputy Mayor on Countering Discriminations, School,
Equal Opportunities
Benedetto Zacchiroli, ECCAR President, City of Bologna
** no simultaneous translation ENG/ITA available for this working group
