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!

 

  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.


    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.


    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


    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.

  • 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