23rdPlenary Meeting of Directors
of the Council of EuropeInformation Offices
Strasbourg, 2–6 June 2008
Palais de l’Europe, Room 14
PROGRAMME
Monday–2June2008 – Room 14
9h00 – 9h15Opening and agenda of the meeting
Mr Konstantin TROUSSEVITCH, Head of Central Division, DGDPA
Ms Hyacinta DRAGANOVSKA, Central Division, Field and InformationOffices Unit, DGDPA
9h15 – 10h30Political priorities of the Organisation
Mr Jean-Louis LAURENS, Director General of Democracy and Political Affairs, DGDPA
Ms Claudia LUCIANI, Director of Political Advice and Co-operation (DPAC),
DGDPA
Mr Konstantin TROUSSEVITCH, Head of Central Division, DGDPA
10h30 – 11h00Coffee break
11h00 – 11h45Implementation and evaluation of the Plan of activities 2008.
Administrative issues and logistics.
Mr Konstantin TROUSSEVITCH, Head of Central Division, DGDPA
Ms Hyacinta DRAGANOVSKA and Ms Tanya OCULY, Central Division, Field and Information Offices Unit, DGDPA
Ms Veronique EHRMANN and Mr Yucel BIRICIK, Central Division, Financial Unit, DGDPA
Mr Franck DAESCHLER, Central Division, Logistics Unit, DGDPA
11h45 – 12h30Interpretation issues – questions and answers
Ms Sally BAILEY-RAVET, Head of Interpreters, DGAL
Ms Anna POLACKOVA, DGAL
12h30 – 14h15Lunch break
14h15 – 15h00Free time for individual meetings (organised by the Directors individually)
15h00 – 15h45Financial issues – practical cases / questions and answers (part I.)
Mr Yucel BIRICIK, Central Division, Financial Unit, DGDPA
15h45 – 16h00Coffee break
16h00 – 17h00Meeting with Mr Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Mr Patrick PENNINCKX, Private Office
Mr Jean-Louis LAURENS, Director General of Democracy and Political Affairs, DGDPA
Mr Konstantin TROUSSEVITCH, Head of Central Division, DGDPA
17h00 – 18h00Free time for individual meetings (organised by the Directors individually)
Tuesday – 3 June2008 – Room 14
9h30 – 10h00Opening of DC session
Mr Jeremy MOAKES, Head of Public Relations Division, DC
10h00 – 10h30Information on the website and publications
Ms Edith LEJARD, Deputy Director of Communication
10h30 – 10h45Coffee break
11h00 – 11h30The role of the Information Offices
-New free publications
-Distribution
-Celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Council of Europe
Mr Jeremy MOAKES, Head of Public Relations Division, DC
11h30 – 12h00Presentation of the press issues
Interactive quiz on media work, launch of a “challenge” for the best examples of: a/ television; b/ radio; c/ newsprint - with prizes to be awarded at the December plenary session.
Mr Alun DRAKE, Acting Head of Press Division, DC
Ms Cathie BURTON, Team Leader Campaigns Support, DC
12h00 – 12h30Audiovisual issues
-New products
-Search for production agencies in the member countries
Ms Cathie BURTON,Team Leader Campaigns Support, DC
Mr David JOLLEY, Audiovisual producer, DC
12h30 – 14h30Lunch break
14h30 – 15h15Media monitoring
Presentation by Mr Vahagn MURADYAN, Deputy Director/PR Specialist in the IOCE Yerevan
Mr Andrew CUTTING, Press Officer, Directorate of Communication
15h15 – 15h30Commissioner for Human Rights issues
Mr Stefano MONTANARI, Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights
15h30 – 17h30Press officers meetings
(Press officers will schedule time with their designated Offices)
Wednesday – 4 June 2008 – Room 14
9h00 – 12h30Peer to peer coaching session:
Each IOCE will be asked to send a PowerPoint of their success story of the year; showing photographs, and explaining the steps taken to achieve it, and the reason why they think this should be a winning project. The PowerPoints should arrive before May 30th, and the best five will be selected for presentation to the group during this session.
Directors will vote a winning project in two categories:
1. the greatest impact on public
2. the best idea developed while conducting campaigns
and prizes will be presented!
12h30 – 14h00Lunch break
14h00 – 15h00CoE campaign on intercultural dialogue and against discrimination
Mr Ulrich BUNJES, Central Division, DG IV
Ms Carole REICH, ”Chargée de mission” for the Campaign, Project manager ”Teaching Remembrance”, DG IV
Ms Francine RAVENEY, Directorate of School, Out-of-School, Higher Education and Languages, DG IV
Ms Cathie BURTON, Team Leader Campaigns Support, DC
15h00 – 17h45Campaigns coaching
This session will take the form of a “surgery” with each director bringing their campaign plans for review.
Ms Cathie BURTON, Mr Hristo HRISTOV and Ms Carla SABEVA will take a group each, providing feedback and ideas and answering questions.
There will be a final plenary session where each of the three groups briefly presents its plans for the next six months.
Thursday –5June 2008 – Room 14
9h30 – 10h30On-line publishing of non-official translations of the ECtHR case-law
Mr Leif BERG, Head of the Case-Law Information and Publications Division, Registry of the Court
Ms Vanessa AEBY, Case-Law Information and Publications Division, Registry of the Court
10h30 – 11h00Coffee break
11h00 – 12h00Ongoing intergovernmental activities in the human rights field
Mr Jeroen SCHOKKENBROEK, Head of Human Rights Development Department, DG-HL (Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs)
12h00 – 14h00Lunch break
14h00 – 15h30Customs issues
Mr Roland LEHMANN, Customs and Tax Exemption Unit, Logistics Division, DGAL
Mr Franck DAESCHLER, Central Division, Logistics Unit, DGDPA
Mr Yucel BIRICIK, Central Division, Financial Unit, DGDPA
15h30 – 16h00Coffee break
16h00 – 16h30 Co-operation with the Directorate of Communication
Ms Seda PUMPYANSKAYA, Director of Communication
16h30 – 17h30Free time for individual meetings (organised by the Directors individually)
17h30[ Cocktail given by the Director of Communication]]
Friday – 6June 2008 –Room 14
9h30 – 10h003rd Summer University for Democracy
(Strasbourg, 30 June – 4 July 2008)
François FRIEDERICH, Project Co-ordinator, Central Division, DGDPA
10h00 – 10h30Financial issues – practical cases / questions and answers (part II.)
Mr Yucel BIRICIK, Central Division, Financial Unit, DGDPA
10h30 – 11h00Coffee break
11h00 – 12h00Meeting with Mr Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Mr Patrick PENNINCKX, Private Office
Mr Jean-Louis LAURENS, Director General of Democracy and Political Affairs, DGDPA
Mr Konstantin TROUSSEVITCH, Head of Central Division, DGDPA
12h00 – 12h30Conclusions
Mr Konstantin TROUSSEVITCH, Head of Central Division, DGDPA
Mr Jeremy MOAKES, Head of Public Relations Division, DC
Ms Hyacinta DRAGANOVSKA, Field and Information Offices Unit, DGDPA
Note:
Office1053 (tel. 3689, equipped with 2 PCs with English keyboards) and Office1055 (tel. 3933, equipped with 2 PCs with English keyboards) will be at disposal of the
Directors from 2 to 6 June 2008. (These Offices are situated in the 1st floor near the Lift I.)
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