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International
Conference on Ethical and Moral Dimensions for
Higher
Education and Science in
Europe
Bucharest,
2-5 September 2004
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Programme
Thursday, 2 September
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[Whole day]
Arrival and registration of participants |
Friday, 3 September
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Opening
Session of the Conference
[9:30-11:00]
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Place: the Auditorium of the National Museum
of Art of Romania, Ştirbei Vodă Street,
No. 1
(All
other Sessions of the Conference will be held at
UNESCO-CEPES, Kretzulescu Palace,
Ştirbei Vodă, No. 39)
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| Welcome
and introduction: |
Dr. Jan Sadlak,
Director of UNESCO-CEPES
Professor Henryk Ratajczak, Vice-President
of EAASH - Academia Europensis
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| Special Messages: |
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H.E.
Mr. Philippe Etienne, Ambassador of France
in Romania
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from
Professor
Alexandru Athanasiu, Minister of Education and Research of Romania,
President of the Romanian National Commission for UNESCO, presented by
Professor Radu Damian, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Education and Research
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from
Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, The Director-General of
UNESCO, presented by
Dr. Howard Moore, Director of the UNESCO
Regional Bureau for Science in Europe - ROSTE; Venice, Italy
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from
Professor Hans van Ginkel,
Rector of the United Nations University - UNU
in Tokyo, Japan, presented by Professor Andrei Marga,
Member of the UNU
Council
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from
Pope John Paul II, presented by H.E. Msgr. Jean-Claude Périsset, Apostolic
Nuncio to Romania
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Special Address: Mr. Ion Iliescu,
President of Romania
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- First Session: Ethical
Dimension of “Culture of Peace” in a Global
and Reconfigured World - How to Transmit it to
Students and Academics
[13:00-15:00]
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| Chairperson: |
Professor
Klaus
Hüfner, Chairperson of the Advisory Board
of UNESCO-CEPES; Berlin, Germany
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| Speakers: |
Professor Federico
Mayor, President, Foundation for a
Culture of Peace; Madrid, Spain
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| Responses from: |
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Professor Brenda M.
Gourley, Vice-Chancellor of The Open University, Milton Keyes,
United Kingdom
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Professor
Abdelwahab Hiba Hechiche, Department of Government and
International Affairs, University of South Florida, Tampa FL, USA
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Professor
Mircea Malitza, President of the Black Sea University
Foundation, Bucharest, Romania
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Second Session: Ethics “in”
and “for” Higher Education and Science
- [15:30-17:00]
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Chairperson: |
Dr. David Ward,
President of the American Council on Education (ACE); Washington DC, USA
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| Speaker: |
Professor Peter Scott,
Vice-Chancellor of the Kingston University; Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
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| Responses from: |
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Professor Radu Damian,
Secretary of State at the Ministry of Education and Research; Dean of Faculty
of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Civil Engineering; Bucharest,
Romania [in relation to engineering education]
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Ms.
Julia Hasler Scott, Deputy for Life
Science Section, Division of Basic and Engineering Sciences; UNESCO, Paris
[in relation to life sciences]
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Mr.
Roger Manière, Director of the Bureau for Central and Eastern Europe
of l'Agence uiniversitaire de la Francophonie (AUF); Bucharest,
Romania
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| 17:00-17:30
Coffee break |
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Discussions
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[19:30-21:00]
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Official Reception of
the Conference (offered and hosted by Ambassador of France), Embassy of France in
Bucharest
[Transportation by bus from
UNESCO-CEPES to the French Embassy at 19:00 and from the French Embassy to Hotel
Lido at 21:00]
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Saturday, 4 September
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Third Session: Ethics “in” and “for”
Higher Education and Science (continuation)
[9:00-10:30]
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| Chairperson: |
Professor
John Finney, Honorary Vice-President of Euroscience,
University of Denver; Denver, Colorado, USA [in
relation to humanities]
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| Responses from:
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Professor
Eric
Gould, Professor,
Department of English, University of Denver;
Denver, Colorado, USA [in relation to humanities]
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Professor Andrzej
Koźmiński,
Rector, Leon Koźmiński Academy of
Entrepreneurship and Management (LKAEM); Warsaw,
Poland [in relation to management and business education]
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Professor
László Molnár, Associate Professor of
Environmental and Engineering Ethics,
Budapest University of Technology and
Economics; Budapest, Hungary [in relation
to environmental and engineering]
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Fourth Session:
Ethical Framework of Governance of Higher
Education and Science
[11:00-13:30]
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| Chairperson: |
Professor
Eduardo Marçal Grilo, Principal
Administrator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Lisbon, Portugal
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| Speaker: |
Professor Jürgen Kohler,
Professor of Law, Greifswald University; Greifswald, Germany
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| Responses from: |
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Professor Mariano L.
Bianca, Dean, Department of
History-Social and Philosophical Studies, University of Siena, Arezzo,
Italy
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Mr.
Bernard Hugonnier, Deputy Director for
Education, Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD); Paris,
France
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Fifth
Session:
First Session: Ethics, Moral
Context and Justice - How They Affect Modern Higher Education and
Science
[14:30-16:00]
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| Chairperson:
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Professor Christian Byk,
President, l’Association Internationale Droit, Ethique et
Science; Paris,
France
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| Speaker: |
Professor André Szostek,
Professor of Ethics and Philosophy, Catholic University of Lublin (KUL);
Lublin, Poland
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| Responses from: |
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Professor
Andrei Marga, Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the Babes- Bolyai
University; Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Professor
Gvozden Flego, Professor of Philosophy, Zagreb University; Zagreb, Croatia
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Final
Session: Concluding Observations and
Adoption of the Recommendations of the
Conference - the Bucharest Declaration
[16:15-18:00]
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| Chairperson: |
Professor Ullica
Segerstråle,
Chairperson of the Department of Social
Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology;
Chicago, USA; Member of the Finnish Society for
Sciences and Letters; Helsinki, Finland
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Presentation of the Draft Conclusions and of the Recommendations by:
Professor Peter Scott, Vice-Chancellor,
the Kingston University; Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom (Rapporteur
of the Conference)
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Sunday, 5 September
| Departure of participants
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