Cambridge Central and Eastern European Forum

Schedule for today. Can't wait to welcome you all!

A map of Jesus College to help you find the venue: the conference will take place in the Frankopan Hall, entered from West Court at Jesus Lane 22 (bottom left corner of the map).

Final summary post - featuring all speakers for our last panel.

Introducing the final speaker of panel 3 - Tereza Vohryzková 🇨🇿

Our third panel will also host Ondrej Lunter 🇸🇰

Introducing the first speaker of panel 3: Joanna Erbel 🇵🇱

Updated panel 2 summary💚
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Updated panel 2 summary💚
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Petra Vargová Čakovská is the final speaker on Panel 2 🇸🇰

A summary post for the green & just transition panel 💚 buy your ticket today through out website!

Our second panel will also host Dr. Alena Drieschová 🇨🇿

Our next speaker on panel 2 is David Šimek, a consultant to the OECD (Environment Directorate). He will talk about carbon pricing for inclusive growth.

Our next speaker on panel 2 is Adrianna Wrona 🇵🇱

Introducing the first speaker of the Green and just transition panel: József Nagy.

We are honoured to host these experts from all V4 countries on our panel on regional inequality. Make sure you buy your tickets as soon as possible through our website!

The final speaker on panel 1 is Dr. Anton Marcinčin 🇸🇰

István Kollai is our third panelist on the Regional Inequality Panel 🇭🇺

Introducing Prof. Agnieszka Olechnicka, our second speaker on the panel on Regional Inequality 🇵🇱

Introducing our first speaker - Prof. Petr Drulák who will be speaking on our first panel on Regional Inequality.

Panel 3: Multi-level governance and participatory decision-making
Our third panel will look at multi-level governance and participatory decision-making, looking at ways to bring decisions as close to people as possible to efficiently address their concerns.
Multi-level governance diffuses power amongst different levels, such as from EU through national to regional and local. How decentralised should our countries be? How much power should be given to the different levels of governance so that different topics are decided in the most appropriate places?
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Although our conference has aimed to and remains apolitical, inviting people from different sides of the political spectrum, and while the recent developments in Ukraine are beyond the scope of our conference, our countries are deeply connected and we would like to express our solidarity with Ukraine, and its citizens - those still in Ukraine, those living in our countries, as well as fellow students, staff and colleagues at the University.

We have decided to donate all the proceeds from the conference raised from ticket purchases to Človek v ohrození (the Slovak equivalent of People in Need - https://clovekvohrozeni.sk/pomoc-ukrajina/), a charity supporting Ukrainians through safe accommodation, food and water as well as other forms of support. Whilst there might be little that we can do, this is our small share of trying to help.

You can buy your ticket and donate here: https://tinyurl.com/ccec2022tickets

Panel 2: Green & just transition
The just transition argues for a focus on the socio-economic impact that environmental policy will have on specific industries or people in specific regions. In the context of the V4, this concerns primarily coal-mining regions where many jobs currently depend on the environmentally-damaging activity. The panel will explore strategies that could be adopted by CE governments to not sacrifice vulnerable regions and workers within them whilst ambitiously contributing to climate mitigation.

Our first panel will focus on regional inequality in Central Europe. Head over to our website to find out more details about the topic and stay tuned as we reveal the experts who will discuss the pressing questions of this topic.

This year's topic will be explored in three panels hosting academics, politicians, policy-makers and other experts from the V4 region. Stay tuned to learn more about the topics covered by each panel!

The Cambridge Central European has been exploring themes related to the region since 2017/18, with topics such as "Post-1989 Transformation and Historical Memory" or "Prague Spring and its Legacies".
This year we will explore the topic of "Regional Development", looking at how regions in the V4 can face its historical and contemporary challenges to develop within all their regions.

This year's conference will take place on Sunday, 13th of March 2022 - and we are excited to announce that it will be held in Jesus College, Cambridge!

Cambridge Central and Eastern European Forum updated their website address.