PRELIMINARY

Contribution of Independent Schools

to Educate for Active Citizenship

ECNAIS CONFERENCE

Vilnius

Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th April 2005

Thursday 14th April 2005

09.00 – 12.00     Management Committee Meeting (open for Management Committee

members only)

                            and

                            Formal Annual General Meeting

12.00 – 13.30      Lunch - Management Committee only

13.30 – 17.30      Pre-conference (programme attached Annex 2)

Opening of the conference 2005

18.00 -                 Conference, opening

                            Welcome by the Chairman

Welcome by the Mayor of Vilnius (invited)

                            History and culture of Lithuania

                            Educational system of Lithuania.

20.30 –                Dinner

Karolina Hotel

Friday 15th April 2005

09.00 – 12.00      School visits

13.30                   Lunch at Karolina Hotel

15.30 - 16.00       Presentation of “Contact Seminar” in Madrid November 2005

16.00 – 17.00      Prof. dr. B.P. Vermeulen, professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, member of the Dutch Education Council, the Netherlands

National and European Citizenship. The role of schools

17.00 – 17.30      Coffee

17.30 – 18.30      Interactive elaboration of the conference theme with Prof. Vermeulen

20.00 -                 Dinner

Karolina Hotel

Saturday 16th April 2005

09.00 – 10.00      Learning and Living Democracy, working groups

                            Speaker from the Council of Europe or the Commission (invited)

10.00 – 10.15      Coffee break

10.15 – 12.00      Working groups

12.00                   Conclusions and Closure of conference

12.30                   Lunch

                            Karolina Hotel

14.00                   Sightseeing - optional