Euro - Atlantic Center
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Danube Bridges III
Cross-Border Cooperation
Organizer: Euro-Atlantic Center
Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovak Republic
Under the Auspices of: President of Slovak Republic, Andrej Kiska
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of Slovak Republic
Date: 22.-23. May 2015
Working language: English
Web: www.danubebridges.eu
1. Day – 22nd May 2015 (Friday), Primate's Palace Bratislava
9:00 – Official Opening
Martina Bednáriková, Regional Director, Euro-Atlantic Center
9:05 - 9:35 - Opening Ceremony
Levente Magyar, Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary
Peter Javorčík, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovak Republic
9:35 - 9:55 – Press Conference
9:55 – 10:30– Opening speech
Carl Helfried, Ambassador of Austria to Slovakia
Juraj Macháč, Ambassador of Slovakia to Austria
Ferdinand Daňo, President of University of Economics in Bratislava
Katarína Csefalvayová, Representative of Československý ústav zahraniční
Representative of Embassy of Slovak Republic in Budapest
10:30 – 11:45 – 1st Panel Cross-Border Cooperation: Why are SME´s the best way for its development?
Zlata Šipošová, Commercial Counsellor of Slovak Embassy in Vienna
Zoltán Bara, Slovak-Hungarian CBC
Juraj Bartakovics, Slovak Business Agency
Thomas Spazier, Austrian Trade Commission
Representative of Embassy of Slovak Republic in Budapest
11:45 – 12:00 – Coffee break
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Regional Office Bratislava
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Euro - Atlantic Center
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12:00 – 13:15 – Workshop 1 Small and medium sized enterprises - road to innovation technologies?
13:15 – 14:15 – Lunch
14:15 – 15:30 – Workshop 2 Slovaks abroad – effective ways how to strengthen cooperation among them
Representative of ČSUZ
Representative of LEAF
15:30 – 18:30 – Free time activity
18:30 – 21:30 – Dinner – From Networking to Building Bridges – Austrian Culture Forum
2. Day – 23rd May (Saturday), University of Economics in Bratislava
10:30 – 11:45 – 2nd Panel Increasing employment through startups and young entrepreneurs
Peter Balík, Ministry of Finance of SR
Martin Vlachynský, INESS
Representative of Austrian startup community
Representative of Slovak startup community
11:45 – 12:00 – Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:15 – Workshop 3 Sharing of know-how, young businessmen, businesswomen and star-ups
Zoltán Kovács-Osváth, Startup Pirates
Representative of Slovak Alliance for internet economy
(During this workshop representatives of start-up community shall be in position of mentors and closely cooperate
with participants on given tasks. Representatives shall also be regular participants during whole conference)
13:15 – 14:15 – Lunch
14:15 – 15:30 – Workshop 4 Nation branding and self-branding
Representative of Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of SR
Representative of Faculty of Mass Media Communication, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius
Representative of marketing companies
15:30 – 17:30 – Closing ceremony
EAC - Euroatlantické centrum
Kuzmányho 3, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic
tel./fax: +421 48 415 1689, e-mail: [email protected], web: www.eac.sk
Regional Office Bratislava
Campus of the University of Economics, Dolnozemská cesta 1, 852 35 Bratislava, Slovak Republic tel. +421 2
6729 5164