ROBERT SCHUMAN FOUNDATION

FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS IN EUROPE

EPP WOMEN CONGRESS, [venue – tbc] MALAGA

‘Improving Equality on the Labour Market: Chances through Diversity’

Friday 7 October 2011

Programme

09:30 h: Inscription for the General Board Meeting of the EPPW

Registration Desk, venue

Boardmeetings EPPW

10:00 – 11:00Meeting of the Executive Board EPPW

11:00 – 13:00Meeting of the General Board[1] EPPW (translation EN GE SP),

13:00 – 14:15Modest lunch

EPPW Congress (simultaneous translation EN GE SP)

14:00 Inscription EPPW Congress, Registration Desk, [venue]

Welcome with tea and coffee

14:30 Welcome and opening EPPW Congress, by Doris Pack

14:40Opening Address by XXX, President PP Mujeres

14:50Opening Address by XXX, PP Party leader Spanish Parliament

15:00Key Note Lecture by Ms. Ursula Simacek (Vienna), CEO of Simacek Facility Management Group GmbH

15:45Round Table, with:

Maria Rauch-Kallat (OEVP), Vice-President EPP Women, former Minister of Austria on Healthcare and Family Issues, Chair

Ms. Cathy van Remoortere (Brussels),Diversity expert Belgian Federal Government, Cabinet Minister Joëlle Milquet on Social Affairs and Gender Equality (tbc)

Ms. Ursula Simacek (Vienna), CEO of Simacek Facility Management Group GmbH

Ms. XXX (Madrid), Spanish PP MP, expert on gender/diversity/labour market policy issues

17.15 Conclusions

17.30 Closing EPPW Congress

20.00 Diner

Programme Saturday 8 October 2011

09:00Optional Programme: Sight seeing visit(place tbc)

Guided Tour (on one’s own account)

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Participants’ fee EPPW Congress, Friday 7 October 2011:

All participants of the EPPW Congress have to pay E 50,00 participants fee.

Rules for reimbursement:

EPP Women: One participant per women’s organisation of a member party of the EPP per country [maximum 3 per country] will be reimbursed for: plane ticket economy class, public transport and maximum two nights in one of the selected hotels, consisting of the night before and after the congress.Reimbursement only takes place based on original receipts / tickets.

EUW Women (and guests): According to our rules there is no reimbursement for EUW participants; they take part on their own account.

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[1]Article 7 Statutes EPPW: The General Board is composed: of the Executive; of at most three representatives by country, each organization being entitled to only one vote; of female members of the Political Bureau of the EPP; of Members of the caucus of the EPP in the European Parliament and of the Parliament of the Council of Europe