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ECAD director Tomas Hallberg and St. Petersburg`s governor Valentina
Matvienko sign Letter of Intent to launch a new ECAD project "Youth in Europe"
patronized by Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson.
St. Petersburg became the first participating
city to sign the agreement. Please have a look at the event described in Russian at their website
www.ecad.ru!
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Upcoming conferences
- 28-29 May 2008
ECAD 15th Mayors’ Conference
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
DRUGS IN THE CULTURE OF CITY YOUTH
May 27-29, 2008
Warsaw, Poland
DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME HERE
(PDF - easy to print out!)
THE VENUE: NOVOTEL Hotel, WARSZAWA CENTRUM
We invite the delegates to bring along young people from their cities!
Tuesday, May 27th
Arrivals
- 19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception hosted by the City of Warsaw /Sheraton Hotel/
Wednesday, May 28th
From 08:00 Registration /NOVOTEL/
09:00 - 16:30
- Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Mayor of Warsaw
Opening and welcome to the conference
Jim Corr, Chairman of ECAD
- Speeches of key-note speakers, summarizing the state of the problem of youth drug addiction, presentation of basic data, scale of the phenomenon, basic methods of prevention and examples of interesting solutions.
Bogdan Prajsner – Public Broadcasting Service
Pawel Kubicki, Warsaw School of Economics
Jacek Olkowicz, Warsaw Metropolitan Police
Thomas Lundqvist, Assoc.Professor, Psychologist, Addiction Treatment Centre/University Hospital of Lund, Sweden
Jon Sigfusson, Director, Icelandic Centre for Social Research and Analysis
- Coffee break-
- Professor Barbara Fatyga, Warsaw University
Presentation of the report on Warsaw Youth Research
-Lunch -
- Panel discussion on the report on Warsaw Youth Research
Björg Månum Andersson, Director General, Oslo Municipality
Paula Kokkonen, Deputy Lord Mayor, Helsinki
Saulius Chaplinskas, MD, PhD, Assoc. Professor, Vilnius
Georgi Zazulin, Director, ECAD Russia
Barbara Fatyga, Professor, Warsaw University
- Coffee break-
- Panel discussion – the problem of youth drug addiction seen by
Youths, practicians dealing with the problem, researchers and
journalists (starting point to discussion are theses phrased in
conception of the conference)
Thomas Lundqvist, Assoc. Professor, Psychologist, Drug Addiction Treatment Centre/University Hospital of Lund, Sweden
Robert Rutkowski, Mazovian Society of Families and Friends of Young Addicts, Warsaw
Lukasz Lugowski, Director, Sociotherapy Centre For Youth
Pelle Olsson, Journalist, Sweden
Maria Moraes and Richard Zamani, youth representatives of C.R.I.S, Sweden
- 16:30 ECAD Plenary Session (for ECAD members only)
- 20.00 - 22.30 Official dinner hosted by the City of Warsaw /Sheraton Hotel/
Thursday, May 29th
9.00 - 12.00
- Piotr Jablonski, Director, National Bureau for Drug Prevention
Bogdan Jaskold, Director, Social Policy Department of the City of
Warsaw
Programmes, budget, cooperation
- Maria Tatarska, Head of Prevention Centre for Youth, Foundation
Prevention of drug addiction
Prevention issue
- Piotr Laszewicz, representative of Addiction Treatment Centre
Treatment issue
- Miroslawa Straburzynska, representative of Addiction Treatment
Centre
Rehabilitation issue
- Coffee break -
- DISCUSSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
- OPEN PRESS CONFERENCE
- 14:00 - STUDY VISITS to rehabilitation centers
Rehabilitation Center Monar Organisation
http://www.wyszkow.monar.org
Center of Rehabilitation and Readaptation For Youth
(Polish Society for Prevention of Drug Abuse)
http://ptzn.org.pl/oddzial.php?id=17
Rehabilitation Center (Warsaw’s Charity Society)
http://wtd_osrodek.republika.pl
Please, book your participance using the following form (please print it out and fax):
CONFERENCE BOOKING FORM:
Venue: NOVOTEL WARSZAWA CENTRUM
Please fax/email this form to Ms. Grazyna Bozek, Social Policy Department, City of Warsaw
Fax: +48 22 595 32 00/ E-mail:
gbozek@warszawa.um.gov.pl
at your earliest convenience, but not later than April 30, 2008.
Please click here to download the Conference booking form and fill it in!
ACCOMMODATION:
Please choose one of the following hotel alternatives to get lower hotel rates.
The Conference takes place at Hotel NOVOTEL WARSZAWA CENTRUM.
If you prefer to book online, email your hotel booking form to Ms. Grazyna Bozek:
gbozek@warszawa.um.gov.pl
HOTEL BOOKING FORMS:
To open the booking form, please click on the hotel name stated in red!
SHERATON HOTEL
Standard single room: 145 €
Standard double room: 166 €
Breakfast and VAT included
Address: ul. B. Prusa 2
00-493 Warszawa
Phone: +48 22 450 60 01
You can visit the hotel at:
www.sheraton.pl.
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IBIS HOTEL Stare Miasto
Standard single room: 85 €
Standard double room: 93 €
Breakfast and VAT included
Address: ul. Muranowska 2
00-209 Warszawa
Phone: +48 22 310 10 00
You can visit the hotel at:
www.infhotel.pl/warszawa/ibisstaremiasto.
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NOVOTEL WARSZAWA CENTRUM (THE VENUE)
Standard single room: 139 €
Standard double room: 155 €
Single SUPERIOR: 166 €
Double SUPERIOR: 182 €
Breakfast and VAT included
Address: ul.Marszalkowska 94/98
00-510 Warszawa
Phone: +48 22 621 02 71
E-mail:
nov.warszawa@orbis.pl
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POLONIA PALACE HOTEL
Standard single room: 113 €
Standard double room: 113 €
Breakfast and VAT included
Address: Al. Jerozolimskie 45
00-692 Warszawa
Phone: +48 22 31 82 800
You can visit the hotel at:
www.polhotels.com/warsz/PoloniaPalace/index2.htm.
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- 8-10 September 2008, Stockholm, Sweden
World Forum Against Drugs: Global conference for NGOs
Go to www.wfad08.org to read more
Download Invitation to WFAD here!
- 2009, Gothenburg, Sweden
World Mayors'Forum
Mayors' Forum is part of the preparatory events before the UNGASS 2009
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