Comité Central du Personnel
The future of the European Schools
50 years of European education
Brussels, 7thDecember 2007
ROOM 0A, CCAB, Rue Froissart 36, 1040 Bruxelles
Organised by the Central Staff Committee (CSC)of the European Commission in collaboration with the parents' associations, the staff of the schools, the staff Committees of the Community and non-Community Institutions, including those brought together in the United Group for the Defence of the European Schools (UGDES)
with the support of the European Commission
8:45Opening of the conference: Georges Vlandas, Vicechairman CSC
First session: 50 years of European education
Chairman for the session:Philippe Bioul (Vice chairman CSC, former Active Member of APEEE)
8:50Renée Christmann, General Secretary of the Board of the ES
9:00Rotraut Moretto, President of “Interparents”
9:10Gilles Vial, Memberof the Board and Chairman of the groups dealing with the future of European education.
9:20Cristiano Sebastiani, Chairman of the CSC
9:30Personal experiences of European education: Ariane Wilson (Writer, former pupil), Michael Stenger, (former pupil and former Chairman of the parent's Association of Brussels II, UGDES), Christian Mandl (former pupil and Chairman of Skyeurope), Loïc Mercereau (former pupil, Senior Manager at Renault, Ist European Baccalaureat), Christiane Gros (former pupil, Baccalaureat 1966)
10:10Alain Scriban, Directorof DG ADMIN, European Commission
10:20Coffee
Thematic workshops: 10:30 – 12:30
Workshop1:The Europeanbaccalauréat in the framework of type 1, 2and 3 schools
Workshop2:The challenge of teaching children in 22/23 languages and new teaching methods
Workshop3:Participation of users and educational professionalsin the schools in thecontext of new methods of governance
Workshop 4:Development prospects for the European Schools
Workshop 5:The challenges of the current functioning of the European Schools
12:30Lunch
Second session: Reports from the workshops
Chairman for the session: Georges Vlandas, Vice chairman CSC
14:00Reports from the workshops
15:00Discussion and exchange of views with the audience
16:15Coffee
Final Session
European Education faced with the needs of society: the future of European education
Chairman for the session: Cristiano Sebastiani, Chairman CSC
16:15Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, Member of the European Parliament
16:30Jochen Richter,Deputy Head of the Private Office of Commissioner Orban
16:45RotrautLüdemann-Moretto, President of “Interparents”
17:00Sim Kallas,Vice-president of the European Commission
17:15Conclusions
17:30End of the Conference
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Enclosed:Thematic workshops
Thematic workshops: 10:30 – 12:30
Workshop 1:The Europeanbaccalauréat in the framework of type 1,2 and 3 schools
Chairman: Jacques Steiwer, former Director of the European Schools, former Representative of teaching staff
Rapporteur: Anna Silvano, former Chairman of the APEEE of Varese, UGDES
Participants: Monique Delveau (Education Advisor, secondary Representative, Staff Committee, KarlsruheSchool),Philippe Bioul (CSC Vicechairman, UGDES),Samantha Carapezzi (Head of Administration in the Food Security Agency in Parma), Georges Pavlidis (President, European School of Frankfurt), Athanassia Radoglou (Chairman of the APEEE of the Munich ES), Franck Wright (Deputy Director of the Culham ES), Reinhard Becker (Active in APEEE, UGDES), Peter Winterbottom (pupil, Frankfurt School), Gertrud Lövestam (APEEE Mol), Gisela Scheuer (former Chairman of the APEEE Brussels 1, Teacher), Benoît Sauveroche (Parents Association, Grange), Jean Schön (former Director of the Brussels 1 ES), Hugh Cooke (Teacher, Karlsruhe), Paola Notari (Vice chairman of the Parma APEEE), Markus Gamelin (APEEE, Karlsruhe), Peter Diem (pupil Frankfurt ES), Karin van Vrede (APEEE Culham), Maria Chiara Coscelli (Chairman of the APEEE of the School in Parma), Susan Lawn (Teacher), Thomas Steigger (parent Brussels), Pascal Casier (Staff Committee EFSA, Parma), Anna Silvano (former Activist in APEEE Varese, UGDES), Angela Lowe (parent, Brussels), Hélène Klein (parent, Brussels), Marit Hololei (Vice-president pedagogical APEE, Brussels), Henriette Dihm (parent), Nima Azargmgin (European Parliament,Brussels), Laura Tositti (pupil, Brussels 3 school), Ariane Pond-Hubert (pupil,Brussels 3), Brian Macklin (Representative of the Association of the International School in Cadarache)
Workshop2:The challenge of teaching children in 22/23 languages and new teaching methods
Chairman:Catherine Bony-Brandt, Vice chairman of the Staff Committee of the Council, former Activist on the APEEE of Brussels 2, UGDES)
Rapporteur: Carine Lingier, Vice chairman of the APEEE,Bergen)
Participants: Marinus Jonkers (Director of the Varese ES), Cibele da Torre (Teacher), Catherine Roba (Teacher , Brussels), Remi Châtel (Teacher), Robert Vonesch (Teacher), Umberto Ceccarini (former Teacher and staff Representative, UGDES), Monique Wurm (Teacher), Pascale Baur (Active in APEEE, Brussels), Claudine Valesio (Teacher, staff committee Representative, secondary Education, Varese, UGDES), Françoise Massaut Van Vlasselaer (Vice chairman of the APEEE of Mol), Jürgen Kohls (former Teacher in Brussels 1 ES, School Director, Cologne), Antonia Chrysikopoulou (Teacher, Brussels 3 ES), François Aulner (parent, Brussels), Marie Lise Wawak (parent, Brussels), Gonçalo Macedo (parent, European Parliament, Brussels), Alison Kennard (pupil,Varese ES), Paul Bure (Honorary Professor European Schools), Francine Bougeon (President of the French in Belgium), Gunther Lorenz (Chairman of APEE Brussels 2 UGDES), Alicia Thomsen (Vicechairman, "Etoile Education Starsbourg")
Workshop3:Participation of users and educational professionalsin the schools in the context of new methods of governance
Chairman: Michael Stenger, former Activist in APEEE, UGDES
Rapporteur:Rotraut Lüdemann-Moretto, President Interparents
Participants: K. Kivinen (Director Brussels 1, ES), Carola Streul (Chairman of the APEEE Brussels 4, ES), Michel de Meerleer (Secretary of the Commission Staff Committee in Brussels), Daniela Pedroni (Coordinator PAS, Varese ES, UGDES), Sean Labastille (pupil Representative, Luxembourg), Vassilis Sklias (UGDES, staff Representative at the Court of Justice), Marie Claude Donnelly (parents Representative ESM, Munich), Francisco Guirao (Member of the management of the APEEE of Brussels 3, ES), Philippe Navarre (Vice chairman APEEE, Brussels 3), Bettina Kleiner (Representative of primary Teaching staff in the Varese, ES), Agnès Lahaye (APEEE, Brussels 2), Tremeur Denigot (Teacher Varese, ES)
Workshop 4:Development prospects for the European Schools
Chairman: Tom Hoyem, Director of the Karlsruhe ES
Rapporteur: Ana Gorey, "Etoile éducation" Strasbourg, UGDES
Participants: Erna Hennicot-Schoepges (Memberof the European Parliament), Panayota Vassilacou (Director of the Brussels3, ES), Paul Bure (Jury memberfor the European Baccalauréat), Michel Thierry (LSC Commission Luxembourg), Karl Dujardin (Teacher, Staff Committee, AlicanteSchool), Robert Klar (LSC Commission, Luxembourg), Raffaele Napolitano (Vice chairmanofCSC Commission, UGDES), Maria Paola Di Pietrogiacomo (LSC Ispra, JRC, Séville), Philippe Le Guay (Staff Representative, UGDES, OEB, Munich), François Wathelet (Chargé de cours, Brussels), Ian Dennis (Active in APEEE, Staff Representative, Luxembourg), Aldert Jan de Haan (former pupil, Staff Representative, The Hague), Bernadette Faymonville (Teacher, Frankfurt , Weng Uwe (Vice chairman LSC Ispra), Michel Curien (President Etoile Education, Strasbourg), Stéphane Cordeil (Vice chairman APEEE de Varese, UGDES), Nathalie Cumps (parent, BergenSchool), Ian Dennis (LSC Commission Luxembourg), Stephen Lewis (Teacher, Frankfurt), Marie Claire Simon (former Teacher UGDES), Catherine Vieilledent Monfort (parent, Staff Representative), Zsuzsann Felkai Jansen (parent, Brussels 1), Anna-Karin Hermansson (parent, Brussels 2), Carina Sterner (parent, APEEE Brussels 2),Arnaud Desmadryl (former pupil, President CoSup), Arnaud Willem (former pupil, Cosup), Bettina Kleiner (pupil VareseSchool), Michelle Jodogne (former ES Teacher), Florence Romain (Deputy Director Parma School), Nicole Fondeneige-Vaucheret (parent, Brussels), Ema Pollet (Bruxelles 1), Kjar Dujardin (primary Teacher)
Workshop 5:The challenges of the current functioning of the European Schools
Chairman: Costas Popotas, President of APEEE, Luxembourg
Rapporteur : Daniela Mormile, Vice chairman of the LSC Brussels
Participants: Tom Zijlstra (Director of the Secondary School in Frankfurt), Barbel Bartsch (Director of the Secondary School Brussels 3), Robert Wein (Futureparents, Brussels), Holger Reichow (Saveourschool, Brussels), Tony Bernard (President APEEE, Brussels 3), Winfried Van Gool (Teaching Advisor, KarlsruheSchool), Luca Recalcati (President APEEE VareseSchool), Ute Bolduan (Vice Chairman LSC Brussels), Gerard Hanney-Labastille (APEEE , Luxembourg), David Taylor (Union Representative Brussels, UGDES),Angelo Salsi (parent, class Representative), Giorgio Clarotti (parent, class Representative former founding President of the Association of former pupils Euresco), Gertrude Lövestam (Mol school); Alar John Rudolf Olljum (parent, Brussels), Anne Dostert (parent, Brussels), Vassiliki Tsirou-Marcantonatou (parent, Brussels), Stefano Dotto (parent), Marcel Brohée (parent, Ispra), Aija Dulevska (parent, Brussels 2), Laura Brohée (pupil, MolSchool), Maria Elza Papasideri (LSC Luxembourg), Alessandra Capra (parent, Brussels), Marie Lise Delcroix (parent, Bergen), Paola Notari (Parma School), Chantal Maradon (parent), Nicholas Mavraganis (LSC Luxembourg), Isa Birke (Vice president of CSC), Chris Van der Aat (President of LSC Ispra)