2023 EDITION
06.-09.07.2023
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Simultaneous translation in English, French and Slovenian
The EL and transform!europe Summer University 2023 will take place in Ljubljana (Slovenia), from the 6th to the 9th of July 2023, at the Faculty of Health Sciences (Zdravstvena pot 5, SI-1000 Ljubljana).
You can find the draft programme here below (subject to changes).
Registrations (divided per category):
Accommodation included:at the DIC (Dijaški dom Ivana Cankarja) dorms, Poljanska cesta 26, 1000 Ljubljana – link HERE
No accommodation needed – link HERE
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L’Université d’été du PGE et transform!europe aura lieu à Ljubljana (Slovenie), du 6 au 9 juillet 2023, à la Faculté des Sciences de la Santé (Zdravstvena pot 5, SI-1000 Ljubljana).
Vous pouvez trouver le projet de programme ci-dessous (sous réserve de modifications).
Inscriptions (divisés par categorie) :
Hébergement inclus aux Dortoirs DIC (Dijaški dom Ivana Cankarja), Poljanska cesta 26, 1000 Ljubljana – lien ICI
Participant sans hébergement – lien ICI
Thursday, 06.07.2023: Arrival Day
Arrivals in the morning
14.00-14.30 – Opening / Welcome speeches
14.30-16.00 – Plenary – “New World Order: lessons from Latin America and the Middle East for non-alignment”
16.00-16.15 – Break
16.15-17.45 – Plenary – “Against the increasing costs of living: healthcare and housing are not commodities!”
17.45-18.00 – Break
18.00-19.15 – Seminar/Workshops
– Seminar – “What do digital revolution, robotisation and automation mean for the Left and the workers?”
19.30 – Dinner
21.00 – Concert: Darko Nikolovski rap concert
Friday, 07.07.2023
10.00-11.30 – Plenary – “Post-fascism and new fascists: the kidnapping of the EU by the far right”
11.30-11.45 – Break
11.45-13.00 – Seminars/Workshops
– Workshop/training about campaigning for 2024: topic for a campaign example (living wages)
– Seminar on Culture
13.00 – Lunch
14.30-16.00 – Plenary – “Peace is our victory: now and for the future, in Ukraine and everywhere!”
16.00-16.30 – Break
16.30-18.00 – Plenary – “Militarisation and climate change: a neglected link”
18.00-18.15 – Break
18.15-19.30 – Seminars/Workshops
– Seminar – “How ecological was Marx? Climate change and Marxism”
– Workshop/training about campaigning for 2024: preparation of the campaign example
20.00 – Dinner
21.30-22.30 – Concert of Lara Jankovic (TBC)
Saturday, 08.07.2023
10.00-11.30 – Plenary – “Intersectional approach for our battles: feminism, migration, LGBTQ+ and ageism”
11.30-11.45 – Break
11.45-13.00 – Seminars/Workshops
– Workshop/training about campaigning for 2024: presentation of the campaign example
– EL Youth Network seminar
13.00 – Lunch
14.30-15.45 – Seminars/Workshops
– A media strategy for the European elections in 2024
16.00-17.00 – Conclusions: EL priorities for the 2024 European Elections
17.00-21.30
Visit of the “Red Ljubljana” (in English) (TBC)
22.00 – Closing party: DJ Nataša Sukič – at the Metelkova City
Sunday, 09.07.2023: Departure Day
2022 EDITION
08.-12.07.2022
High School José Estevão, Aveiro (Portugal)
Simultaneous translation in English, French and Portuguese!
The EL and transform!europe Summer University 2022 will take place in Aveiro (Portugal), from the 8th to the 12th of July 2022.
You can find the programme here below.
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L’Université d’été du PGE et transform!europe aura lieu à Aveiro (Portugal), du 8 au 12 juillet 2022.
Vous pouvez trouver le programme ci-dessous.
Friday, 08.07.2022: Arrival Day
Opening (afternoon) – arrivals 19:00 to 20:00h.
21.30-22.30 Cultural activity:
Catarina Valadas and Rui Oliveira (revolutionary and resistance songs), at Mercado Negro – R. João Mendonça 172º
Saturday, 09.07.2022
9.15-9.30 – Welcome speeches: Marisa Matias (MEP, Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal) and Cornelia Hildebrandt (Co-president, transform!europe, Germany)
9.30 – Plenary: A new crisis – the economic impact of the global pandemic and war
Marisa Matias (MEP, Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal)
Aida Sopi Niang (Deputy Mayor of Dakar, Senegal)
Moderation: Alen Toplišek (co-coordinator of the EL Economic policies WG, Levica, Slovenia)
11.00-11.15 – Break
11.15-12.30 – Seminars/Workshops
– European Youth facing (class) war: our struggle for solidarity between militarisation, non-violent strategies and climate crisis
– The consequences of war on the left: where do we go from here?
Angelina Giannopoulou (facilitator of the European Integration and the Left Strategy programme, transform!europe)
Moderation: Katerina Anastasiou & Axel Ruppert
12.30 – Lunch
14.30 – Plenary: Uberisation and class struggle: the future of the labour movement
José Soeiro (sociologist and member of the Parliament, Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal)
Anu Koljonen (General Secretary of the Nordic Transport Workers’ Federation, NTF, Sweden)
Moderation: Barbara Gomes (councillor of Paris, lecturer at the University of Avignon, specialist in platform work, PCF, France)
16.00-16.15 – Break
16.15-17.30 – Seminars/Workshops
– Seminar on post-elections France
Ian Brossat (Spokesperson, French Communist Party)
Gala Kabbaj (Espaces Marx, France)
Moderation: Cornelia Hildebrandt (Co-president, transform!europe, Germany)
– An unwavering commitment to peace
Tom Unterrainer (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, UK)
Niamh Aine Ni Bhrain (TNI, Transnational Institute)
Moderation: Katerina Anastasiou & Axel Ruppert (transform!europe)
17.30-17.45 – Break
17.45-19.00 – Seminars/Workshops:
– Presentation of the EL magazine “Quistioni” and “Transform’s Yearbook”
Luis Fazenda (member of the Editorial Board of Quistioni)
Roberto Morea (transform!europe)
Moderation: Didem Aydurmus (co-coordinator of the EL Environment WG, Die Linke, Germany)
– The social and ecological transformation in the coal regions of the EU
Czeslaw Kulesza (Naprzód Foundation, Poland)
Ivan Strachoň (Regional Councillor of North Moravia Region, KSCM, Czech Republic)
Mathias Froeck (Die Linke, Germany)
Maria Manuel Rola (Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal)
Moderation: Roland Kulke (transform!europe)
20.00 – Dinner
21.30 – Concert of Siricaia at Casa de Chá Arte Nova – R. Dr. Barbosa de Magalhães 9
Sunday, 10.07.2022
9.30 – Plenary: Smash capitalism, save the planet: “Green Deals” and energy transition
Sean Sweeney (Coordinator of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, TUED)
Attila Vajnai (President of the Worker’s Party of Hungary 2006)
Marisa Matias (MEP The Left, Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal)
Mika Parkkari (special adviser in education policy, Left Alliance, Finland)
Moderation: Didem Aydurmus (co-coordinator of the EL Environment WG, Die Linke, Germany)
11.00-11.15 – break
11.15-12.30 – Seminars/Workshops:
– “Art and Youth: How much youth is in Art?”
Coordinators of the open discussion:
Olga Athaniti (actress, co-coordinator of the EL Culture Network, Syriza, Greece)
Armeline Videcoq Bard (Art History and Nordic Languages master student, member of the EL Youth Network, RED Jeunes, France)
Adrià Serarrols (master graduate in International Relations, member of the EL Youth Network, Jovent Republicà, Catalonia)
– “Hundred Shades of the EU”: Mapping the Political Economy of the EU Peripheries
Veronika Sušová-Salminen (transform!europe)
Giuseppe Celi (economist, associated professor at the University of Foggia, Italy)
José Gusmão (MEP, Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal)
Moderation: Tatiana Moutinho (transform!europe)
12.30 – Lunch
14.30 – Plenary: Towards unity of socialist, feminist and ecologist movements
Attila Melegh (professor of University Corvinus, Hungary)
Gala Kabbaj (Espaces Marx – transform!europe, France)
Andreia Galvão (ecofeminist, Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal)
Amandine Pavet (member of the Parliament of Wallonia and responsible of RedFox, the 14-18yo youth movement of the PTB, Belgium)
Moderation: Tatiana Moutinho (transform!europe)
16.00-16.30 – break
16.30 – Plenary: The radical left’s response to militarism and war
George Katrougalos (head of sector of European and international relations, Syriza, Greece)
Katerina Anastasiou (transform!europe)
Stefano Amann (PRC, Italy)
Moderation: Claudia Haydt (co-coordinator of the EL Peace WG, Die Linke, Germany)
18.00-18.15 – break
18.15-19.30 – Seminars/Workshops:
– The social and political diversity of the radical left
Conny Hildebrandt (Co-President, transform!europe)
Yann Le Lann (Espaces Marx, France)
Moderation: Angelina Giannopoulou (transform!europe)
20.00 – Dinner
Monday, 11.07.2022
9.30 – Plenary: Democracy around the world: challenging the far-right
Fabian Figueiredo (co-coordinator of the EL Fighting the far right WG, Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal)
Yuliya Yurchenko (political economist, University of Greenwich, Ukraine)
Moderation: Cornelia Hildebrandt (Co-president, transform!europe, Germany)
11.00-11.15 – Break
11.15-12.30 – Seminars/Workshops:
– Seminar on Senegal and Burkina Faso situation
Aida Sopi Niang (Deputy Mayor of Dakar, Senegal)
Moderation: Félix Atchadé (Coordinator of the EL Africa WG, PCF, France)
– An Alliance for Freedom of Press : for a network of the Left voices in Europe
Representatives from media outlets:
Left, IT (Alessia Gasparini)
Mundo Obrero, ES (Lucia Herrera)
Lūžis Magazine, LT (Andrius Bielskis)
Cross-Border Talks Blog and YouTube Channel CZ, PL, RO (Margolzata Kulbaczewska Figat)
Nasze Argumenty Journal, PL (Czeslaw Kulesza)
Časopis!argument Webzine, CZ (Veronika Sušová-Salminen)
Esquerda.net, PT (Mariana Carneiro)
Moderation: Roberto Morea & Dagmar Švendová (transform!europe)
12.30 – Lunch
14.30 – Conclusions: The way forward for the EL
Heinz Bierbaum (President of the Party of the European Left)
Cornelia Hildebrandt (Co-President of transform!europe)
Catarina Martins (National Coordinator, Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal)
Moderation: Angelina Giannopoulou (transform!europe)
16.00-21.30 – Visit of the city of Aveiro or Costa Nova seaside
20.00 – Open-air dinner
22.00 – Closing party – DJ set by Tropicaustica
Tuesday, 12.07.2022: Departure Day
8.00 – 10.00 – Departures by bus
2019 EDITION
10.-14.07.2019
Fiuggi (Italy)
Have a look at our final reportage and join us next time!
You can find the full videos of the panels on our Youtube channel.
Find here and below the final programme with the links to our short video clips.
Wednesday, 10.07.2019: Arrival Day
19-20 Opening [look at the video clip]
Giovanna Capelli, Communist Refoundation Party, Italy
Roberto Morea, transform! europe, Italy
Paolo Ferrero, Vice-President of the EL
20.00 Dinner
21.15 International Guitar Festival (Garden Hotel Universo)
Andrea Vettoretti: “Wonderland” a project inspired by Alice in Wonderland
Roberto Fabbri & Daughters: Famous pop songs arranged for violin and guitar voice
Thursday, 11.07.2019
9.30 Plenary: The crisis of neoliberal globalisation and the destructive tendencies of capitalism today [look at the video clip]
Presentation: Maurizio Acerbo, National Secretary of Communist Refoundation Party, Italy
Speakers: Veronika Sušová Salminen, transform! europe, Czechia and Finland
Mikael Hertoft, Red Green Alliance, Denmark
12.30 Lunch
14.30 Seminars
1. The transformation of production and the unifying slogans of workers’ struggles in Europe
Presentation: Christos Tompazos, AKEL, Pancyprian Federation of Labour-PEO, Cyprus
Speakers: Roland Kulke, transform! europe, Germany
Valentina Orazzini, FIOM International policies, Italy
2. Against NATO and the European army: a new international cooperation cooperation
Presentation: Aslı Aydın, ÖDP, Turkey
Speakers: Tommaso Di Francesco, journalist, deputy editor in chief of Il Manifesto, Italy Claudia Haydt, Die Linke, Germany
3. Workshop: EU struggle against Airbnb [look at the video clip]
Tatiana Moutinho (transform! europe), Kenneth Haar (CEO),
Katalin Gennburg (Die Linke, Germany), Stefania Animento (Researcher)
4. Workshop: Tools of communication – Sala Iris Crillon
Simona Maggiorelli (Left, Italy), Angelina Giannopoulou (transform! europe), Gala Kabbaj (Quantité Critique France), Roberto Morea (transform! europe)
17.00 Plenary: The destruction of democracy: the judicialization of politics and the hollowing out of democratic institutions and civil and social rights [look at the video clip]
Presentation: Maite Mola, Vice-President of the EL
Speakers: Miguel Calahorrano, former Minister of Energy, Ecuador
Monica di Sisto, journalist STOP TTIP STOP CETA, Italy
20.00 Dinner
21.00 Movie: “La memoria del Condor by Emanuela Tomassetti, presented by the director (IT)
Friday, 12.07.2019
9.30 Plenary: 8th of March, World Feminist Strike [look at the video clip]
Presentation: Angelina Giannopoulou, transform! europe, Greece
Speakers: Eleonora Cirant, La Sinistra, Italy
Isabel Burbano PCE/IU, Spain
11.00 Plenary: The Care Revolution: care work and the precariousness of women
Presentation: Gitte Pederden, RGA, Denmark)
Speakers: Sophia Hocini, French Communist Party
Nika Kovac (8th March Institute, Slovenia)
12.30 Lunch
14.30 Seminars
1. Policies of the European Union on environment and the proposals of the left in the face of climate change and the role of new actors: trade unions, youth and citizen movements [look at the video clip]
Presentation: Felicity Dowling, Left Unity, UK
Speakers: Manuela Kropp, Die Linke, policy advisor in GUE/NGL, Germany
Antero Eerola, Left Alliance, Finland
Ale Silvello, Fridays for Future, Green New Deal for Europe
Asbjørn Wahl, Trade-Unionist, Norway –
2. Workshop: Christian/Marxist Dialogue
Rocco D’Ambrosio (Prof. Gregoriana University, Italy) Walter Baier (Coordinator of transform! europe) Paolo Ferrero (Vice President of the EL)
17.00 Plenary: Capitalism is a predatory system – for the planet and on our lives [look at the video clip]
Presentation: Attila Antal, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Speakers: Dagmar Enkelmann, Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, Germany
Eleonora Forenza, Feminist, Communist Refoundation, Italy
20.00 Dinner
21-22 Workshop Theater performance, with texts of Bertolt Brecht and P. P. Pasolini
Saturday, 13.07.2019
9.30 Plenary: The International of right-wing populists, racists, and nationalists [look at the video clip]
Introduction: Gregor Gysi, President of the EL
Speakers: Saverio Ferrari, President of the Observatory of the new Rights
Inna Shupac, Chair of Moldova Without Nazism, Moldova
Giuseppe Cugnata, transform! europe & Espaces Marx, Italy
12.30 Lunch
14.30 Seminars
1. The New situation in Europe, post-European elections: evaluation and proposals from the Party of the European Left [look at the video clip]
Presentation: Giovanna Capelli, Rifondazione Comunista, Italy
Speakers: Cornelia Hildebrandt, transform! europe, Germany
Attila Vajnai, Workers’ Party of Hungary 2006
2. Violence against women
Presentation: Nika Kovac, 8th March Institute, Slovenia
Speakers: Eleonora Forenza, former GUE/NGL MEP, Italy
Bianca Grafe, University Osnabrück, CEINAV, Germany
3. A strategy to resolve the crisis in the Middle East and Mediterranean region: open ports and a European reception plan
Presentation: Stefano Galieni, Communist Refoundation Party, Italy
Speakers: Nancy Porsia, Journalist expert on Middle East and Northern Africa, Italy
Mar Sabé Dausà, Open Arms (Video)
17.00 Conclusions: Proposals from the European Left [look at the video clip]
Greetings from Maria Elena Uzzo, Vice-Ambassador of Venezuela
Presentation: Paolo Ferrero, Vice President of the EL
Speakers: Walter Baier, Coordinator of transform! europe
Maite Mola, Vice-President of the EL
Marga Ferre, transform! europe, Spain
20.00 Dinner
22.00 Super evening
Sunday, 14.07.2019: Departure Day
– Departures from Fiuggi to Rome by bus – Stop at Termini – Drop the luggage City tour of Rome – free departure.
5h30 BUS 1 (Only Termini)
9h BUS 2 (Only Termini)
10h30 BUS 3 (Termini + Flaminio and City tour at 1pm)
2018 EDITION
11.-15.07.2018
Vienna
Wednesday, 11.07.2018: Arrival Day
Opening: (18.00 – 20:00)
Welcome speeches from Mirko Messner (Chairman of the Communist Party Austria) and Gregor Gysi (President of the European Left)
Inauguration: In memory of Elisabeth Gauthier: Austrian French Woman and Citizen of the World
Presentation of a text with comments by Chantal Delmas (PCF) and Barbara Steiner (transform!europe)
Concert: Aron Quartet
Break
Open space for workshop ideas and first meeting for organizing “youth track”
This year’s Summer University will introduce a new element: A special program for young European left-ists! This special feature will be organised by the young people themselves. The idea is to acknowledge the specific interests and approaches of young people to the daily focus and offer them the appropriate space for self-organised workshops and share with all others the plenaries, seminars and the evening events.
Dinner (20:00)
Thursday, 12.07.2018: “Europe’s Role in a Globalized World”
Plenary 1 (10.00 – 11.45):
Marxism/Feminism – Today
Gregor Gysi (European Left President),
Gabriele Michalitsch (University of Vienna)
Moderation: Barbara Steiner (transform!europe)
Seminars (12.00 – 14.00):
a) Europe and Mediterranean basin
Natasa Theodorakopoulou (SYRIZA, Greece)
Vera Polycarpou (AKEL) (TBC)
N.N Communist Party of Lebanon (TBC)
Moderation: Roberto Morea (transform!europe)
b) Resisting NATO expansion and aggression
Ina Shupac (Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova)
Volodymir Ishchenko (Center of Social Research, Kiev)
Erhard Chrome (RLF Berlin)
Moderation: Claudia Krieglsteiner (KPÖ, Austria)
c) Resisting the new round of arms race and cold war in Europe
Claudia Haydt (Die Linke, Germany)
Maite Mola (Vice-President of the EL)
Antero Eerola (Left Alliance, Finland) (TBC)
Moderation: Attila Vajnai (Workers’ Party of Hungary 2006)
d) The Times Are A-Changing: 68/69 in US, France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia and UK
Introduction by PCF (France) (TBC)
Short intervention of 7-8 minutes: Inger V. Johansen (RGA, Denmark),
Tatiana Moutinho (cult:tra, transform!europe, Portugal),
Franco Russo (Italy), Makis Kavouriaris (Greece)
Moderation: transform!europe (TBC)
e) Workshop: Youth focus: What can Marxism tell us about globalisation?
Max Shanly (the Labour Party and Momentum)
Lunch break (14.00 – 16.00)
Plenary 2 (16.00 – 18.00):
Elements of an Alternative Concept vis-à-vis the Militarisation of the European Union
Dagmar Enkelmann, (RLF),
Maite Mola (EL Vice President),
Moderation : Laurent Perea (PCF, France) (TBC)
Evening Event and dinner (20.00):
Music and solidarity with the Left forces in Latin America
Friday, 13.07.2018: Social Justice: A European Concept of Economic, Ecological and Social Convergence
Plenary 3 (10.00 – 11.45):
“Towards a European Plan for Economic, Social and Ecological Recovery”
Rosalía Martin Escobar (Member of the permanent of the Federal Working group on Women of IU, Spain)
Guillaume Balas (MEP S&D, Générations) (TBC)
Giorgos Katrougalos (Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece)
Luka Mesec (Levica, Slovenia)
Moderation: Paolo Ferrero (EL Vice President)
Seminars (12.00 – 14.00):
a) Different Scenarios of the Future of the Monetary Union
Kenneth Haar (CEO)
Marika Frangakis (SYRIZA, Greece)
Steffen Lehndorff (University of Duisburg, Germany)
Moderation: N.N (TBC)
b) A radical agenda for social and gender appropriate energy transition.
Manuela Kropp (assistant MEP, Die Linke)
Gitte Pedersen (RGA, Denmark)
Pablo Torija (Podemos, Spain)
Moderation: Jean Claude Simon (transform!europe)
c) Workshop: Youth focus: The Rise of the Far-Right in Europe: how we experience it
Lunch break (14.00 – 16.00):
Seminars/Workshops (16.00 – 18.00):
d) Europe, China and the New Silk Road
Josef Baum, (transform!europe)
Giorgos Katrougalos (Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece)
Moderation: Marga Ferré (Spain)
e) “The Simple That Is Hard To Achieve”: 68/69: CSSR, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland
Gáspár Miklós Tamás (Philosopher, Former member of the Academy of Science, Hungary),
Jiří Hudeček (SDS, Czech Republic)
Filip Balunivic (Political Scientist, Serbia)
Moderation: Waltraud Fritz (KPÖ, Austria)
Different City tours offered (15.00 – 18.00)
Dinner at Brick 5 (Entry 18.00)
19:00 Performance
inspired by Bertolt Brechts FLÜCHTLINGSGESPRÄCHEN („refugee talks“, 1940) with Eva Brenner & Team from FLEISCHEREI_mobil (german with english introduction)
19.30 Dinner
20:30 Viennese Music
Saturday, 14.07.2018: Appropriation, Participation and Democracy
Plenary 4 (10.00 – 11.45):
“Can we re-appropriate Europe as a Common?” – How to re-appropriate Europe as one Dimension of Initiatives to reclaim a Social Justice, Ecological Sustainability and Democracy
Mariana Mortagua (MP, Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal), TBC
Italian speaker (TBC)
Ernest Urtasun (MEP, Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds) (TBC)
Walter Baier (transform!europe)
Moderation: Marga Ferré (Spain)
Seminars (12.00 – 14.00)
a) Right wing populism and the far Right in Europe
Antoine de Cabanes (transform!europe, Espace Marx, France)
Gabriele Michalitsch (University of Vienna)
Joanna Gwiazdecka (RLF of Prague, Poland)
Joseph Healy (Left Unity, UK)
Moderation: Roberto Musacchio (Alta Europa con Tsipras, Italy)
b) A Dialogue among the Left about different Strategies: Nations, States and democracy
Christine Kaindl (Die Linke, Germany) (TBC)
Makis Kavouriaris (Greece) (TBC)
Ernest Urtasun (MEP, Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds) (TBC)
Moderation: Andreas Günther (RLF, New York)
c) A Dialogue among the Left — Which are the agents and our allies of the Change? (Social movements, Parties, Social democracy)
Conny Hildebrandt (RLF Berlin, transform!europe)
Waltraud Fritz (KPÖ, Austria)
Federico Severino (Instituto 25M, Spain)
Moderation: Angelina Giannopoulou (transform!europe, NPI)
Lunch break (14.00 – 16.00)
Seminars/Workshops (16.00 – 18.00)
d) “Under the pavement lies the beach” 68/69: The Awakening of a New Feminism in the aftermath of 68
Heidi Ambrosch (transform!europe)
Spanish feminist (TBC)
Rosa Rinaldi (Rifondazione Comunista, Italy)
Moderation: Gitte Pedersen (RGA, Denmark)
e) Transformation processes and Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Eastern Europe
Veronika Susova Salminen (Finland / Czech Republic)
N.N (TBC)
Moderation: Dagmar Svendova (transform!europe)
f) Workshop: Youth focus: Authoritarian turn in Europe: Where is democracy heading?
Closing Event (18.30)
Sunday, 15.07.2018: Departure Day
2017 EDITION
23.-29.07.2017
Budapest
2016 EDITION
20.-24.07.2016
Chianciano Terme, Tuscany (Italy)
Wednesday, 20.07.2016: Arrival Day
17:30 – 20:00: Opening session & Plenary Europe, after Brexit
Fabio Amato, EL – Rifondazione Comunista (Italy)
Maite Mola, EL Vice-President – Izquierda Unida (Spain)
Haris Golemis, Transform! (Greece)
Eleonora Forenza, MEP Altra Europa (Italy)
20:00: Dinner and welcome cultural activity
Thursday, 21.07.2016: Europe
9:30 – 11:30: Plenary Alliance against austerity: debt, euro-zone, for a left alternative
1. Connie Hildebrandt, Transform!
2. Fabio De Masi, MEP Die Linke (Germany)
3. Paolo Ferrero, National Secretary Rifondazione Comunista (Italy)
Moderator: Marga Ferré, Transform!
11:30 – 12:30: Workshop: Communication
13:00: Lunch
14:00: Culture Workshop “Border café” promoted by Ritva Harle (Finland)
16:00 – 18:00: Plenary The future of EU integration: the 5 Presidents’ report and the left
1. Marisa Matias, EL Vice-President – MEP Bloco de Esquerda (Portugal)
2. Matt Carthy, MEP Sinn Féin (Ireland)
3. Maite Mola, EL Vice-President – Izquierda Unida (Spain)
4. Neoklis Sylikiotis, Vice-President of GUE/NGL – MEP AKEL (Cyprus)
Moderators: Fabio Amato, EL – Rifondazione Comunista (Italy) & Roberto Morea, Transform!
18:00 – 20:00: Two seminars
1. EL-FEM Feminists fighting back right-wing attacks on Women’s rights in the areas of Women’s employment and labour legislation, reproductive rights, sexual diversity and family politics
Bärbel Lange et al. (Die LINKE/Germany)
Gitte Pedersen et al. (Red-Green Alliance/Denmark, EL-FEM)
Moderator: Judith Benda, EL – Die Linke (Germany)
2. Europe between hope and fear, the challenge of the left and the nightmare of the far right
Yiannis Bournous, EL – SYRIZA (Greece)
Gilles Garnier, EL – PCF (France)
Joanna Gwiazdecka, Rosa Lux. Foundation Warsaw (Poland)
Moderator: Martin Schirdewan, Rosa Lux. Foundation (Germany)
20:30: Dinner
21:30: “Performing Politics”
Lecture presentation, video screening & theatre workshop
Friday, 22.07.2016: Labour
9:30 – 11:30: Plenary Against precariousness and unemployment: working time reduction
1. Pierre Laurent, EL President – National Secretary PCF (France)
2. Gianni Rinaldini, President Sabattini Foundation and former General Secretary FIOM/CGIL (Italy)
3. Benjamin Pestieau, member of the PTB Bureau (Belgium)
4. Georgios Katrougalos, Minister of Labour, Social Insurance and Social Solidarity of the Greek Government – SYRIZA (Greece)
Moderator: Roberta Fantozzi, Responsible of Economic policies Rifondazione Comunista (Italy)
11:30 – 12:30:
Book presentation “Ci è rimasta la ragione”, meeting with the author Ivan Nardone
Informal EL-FEM Meeting Organization of our next conference and the Women’s Assembly at the Party Congress
13:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:00: Informal EL-FEM Meeting continued
15:00 – 17:00: Plenary TTIP and the others. Trade liberalization and social, environmental and human rights
1. Eleonora Forenza, MEP member of International Trade committee – Altra Europa (Italy)
2. Adoración Guamán, Transform!
3. Hanna Sarkkinen, MP Vasemmistoliitto (Finland)
4. Monica Di Sisto, Fairwatch Vice-President
Moderator: Natasa Theodorakopoulou, EL – SYRIZA (Greece)
17:00 – 19:00: Two seminars:
EL-FEM Feminist critique of neoliberal economy and the places it assigns to Women: strategies against impoverishing Women
1. Imma Barbarossa (EL-FEM, European Feminist Initiative IFE-EFI/Italy)
2. Marina Gržinić, artist, philosopher, Academy Science&Arts (Slovenia)
3. Katerina Papatheodorou, EL-FEM, Department for feminist Policy and Gender of SYRIZA (Greece)
Moderator: Hilde Grammel, EL-FEM – KPO (Austria)
Collective bargaining and reconstruction of industry policy in Europe
1. Domenico Moro, author of Globalization and Industrial Decadency
2. Paloma Lopez, MEP Izquierda Unida (Spain)
3. Loudovikos Kotsonopoulos, Transform!
Moderator: Maxime Benatouil, Espace Marx (France)
19:00: Departure to Siena: Wine tasting, dinner and visit
Saturday, 23.07.2016: Peace
9:30 – 11:30: Plenary Migrants, refugees and wars
1. Aslı Aydın, EL – ÖDP (Turkey)
2. Heinz Bierbaum, Die Linke (Germany)
3. Nektarios Bougdanis, member of the Secretariat of the Foreign Policy Department – Syriza (Greece)
4. Stefano Galieni, PRC (Italy)
Moderator: Inger V. Johansen, EL – Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)
11:30 – 12:30: Book presentation “The radical left in Europe”, meeting with the author Marco Damiani, PhD in Political Science, University of Perugia
13:00: Lunch
14:00: Workshop: Migration “Hosting refugees and migrants – solidarity and integration policies vs. Xenophobia”
16:00 – 18:00: Two seminars:
EL-FEM The global humanitarian crisis: women trapped between (civil) wars and European border regimes
1. Sabine Lösing, MEP – Die Linke (Germany)
2. Ioanna Kanavou, Head-coordinator of the Department for Feminist Policy and Gender – Syriza (Greece)
3. Myassa Kraitt, Co-founder and advisor at the Extremist Information Center (Austria-Irak)
Moderator: Birge Krondorfer, EL-FEM, Political philosopher
EU neighbours policy and NATO expansion
1. Claudia Haydt, EL – Die Linke (Germany)
2. Veronika Sušová-Salminen
3. Inna Shupac, EL – MP Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
Moderator: Giovanna Capelli, EL – Rifondazione Comunista (Italy)
18:00 – 20:00: Plenary: Conclusions of the Summer University & Plenary
For a socialist, ecologist and feminist alternative
1. Pierre Laurent, EL President – National Secretary PCF (France)
2. Alberto Garzón, Izquierda Unida coordinator (Spain)
3. Paolo Ferrero, National Secretary Rifondazione Comunista (Italy)
4. Eleonora Forenza, MEP Altra Europa (Italy)
5. Monica Valente, Foro de São Paulo, Executive Secretary – PT (Brasil)
6. Roberto Musacchio, Altra Europa (Italy)
7. Yiannis Bournous, SYRIZA (Greece)
8. Connie Hildebrandt, Transform!
20:30: Dinner
21:00: Departure to the Thermal Bath “Itheia- the bath of the Etruscans”
Sunday, 24.07.2016: Departure Day
Working languages: English, French, Italian.
Plenaries and seminars: Professional translation.
Workshops: Militant self-organized translation.
2015 EDITION
08.-12.07.2015
Litomerice, Czech Republic
Please find below the first programme of this year’s Summer University, organized in cooperation between the EL and transform!europe, as well as the link to the registration form section!
Please be aware that translation will be provided in the plenary as well as the four seminars into/from English/French/Czech.
Wednesday, 08.07.2015: Arrival Day
Shuttle Busses available from Prague Airport and Main Train Station.
18h-19h: Opening with songs performed by Maren Rahmann and film about Therezin
19h-20h: Dinner
After Dinner: Get-together party
Thursday, 09.07.2015: East of the West
07h30: Breakfast
09h30 – 11h30: Plenary + Opening
“The Future of Europe: Equality, Justice and Social Coherence. Experiences and Contributions of Central and Eastern Europe.”
Speakers: Pierre Laurent (France), Ioana Sivhlikova (Czech Republic)
Moderator: Milan Neubert (Czech Republic)
11h45 – 13h45 Seminars
1. EL-Fem-Seminar “Gender and precarity: examples from Greece”
2. “Rising of Extreme Right Tendencies in Eastern Europe”
Speakers: Attila Vajnai (Hungary), Elisabeth Gauthier (France), Jan Kavan (Czech Republic)
Moderator: Walter Baier (Austria)
13h45 – 14h25: Lunch Break
14h30 – 16h30: Seminars
1. “CEE: Integration x Militarization – geopolitical, globalization and economic aspects”
Speakers: Hannes Hofbauer (Austria), Ilona Svihlikova (Czech Republic), Rok Kogej (Slovenia)
Moderator: Dagmar Svendova (Czech Republic)
2. “Left in CEE: positions, role, weakness and potentials”
Speakers: Jiri Malek (Czech Republic), Joana Gwiazdecka (Poland), Michal Fric (Slovakia)
Moderator: Jiri Hudecek (Czech Republic)
16h30 – 18h30: Excursion Terezin
19h – 20h: Dinner
Friday, 10.07.2015: Europe after 1/25 – New Chances, New Challenges
07h30: Breakfast
09h30 – 11h30: Plenary
“Europe – Integration or Division”
Speakers: Leo Panich, and a representative of Syriza
Moderation: Elisabeth Gauthier (France)
11h45 – 13h45: Seminars
1. “After the Greek Elections: which consequences and challenges, which experiences in the common struggle?”
Speakers: Erhard Crome (Germany), Anne Sabourin (France), Raffaella Bollini (Italy), Natassa Theodorakopoulou (Greece)
Moderator: Walter Baier (Austria)
2. “Contributions of the Left in Europe to the debates about TAFTA & COP21”
Speakers: Miroslav Ransdorf (Czech Republic), Lara Otonicar (Slovenia), Florian Wilde (Germany)
Moderator: Inger Johansen (Denmark – t.b.c.)
13h45 – 14h45: Lunch Break
15h – 17h: Seminars
1. EL-Fem-Seminar “What does Feminism Mean for us Feminists coming from Different Countries?”
2. “Concrete Experiences with Solidarity and Mobilization”
Speakers: Nuria Lozano (Catalonia) Mirto Bolota (Greece), Danielle Montel (France)
Moderator: Waltraud Fritz-Klackl (Austria)
17h15 – 18h45: Self-Organized Workshops
18h30 – 20h: Dinner
Evening – Cultural Programme
Saturday, 11.07.2015: One Europe-One World
07h30: Breakfasts
09h30 – 11h30: Plenary
“A Changed Europe for a Sustainable Global Future”
Speakers: Maite Mola (Spain), Walter Baier (Austria)#
Moderator: Cornelia Hildebrandt (Germany)
11h45 – 13h45: Seminars
1. Climate Justice and a Left Energy Policy – How to prepare for the global climate summit in Paris
Speakers: Josef Baum (Austria), Herve Bramy (France)
2. “Shifting Perspectives – Europe and Latin America”
Speakers: Suzany Gonzales (Venezuela), Heinz Bierbaum (Germany), Ana-Elisa Osorio (Venezuela)
Moderation: Maite Mola (Spain)
13h45 – 14h45: Lunch Break
15h – 17h: Seminars
1. “Fortress Europe – on Refugees and Migration”
Speaker: Marie-Christine Vergiat (France), Raffaella Bollini (Italy), Olga Athaniti (Greece)
2. EL-Fem-Seminar “Migration, Antiracism and Gender”
17h15 – 18h45: Self-Organized Workshops
18h30 – 20h: Dinner
Evening: Closing, Cultural Programme, Farewell-Party
Sunday, 12.07.2015: Departure Day
Shuttle Busses available to Prague Airport and Main Train Station.
07h30 – 09h30: Breakfasts
2009 EDITION
The 4th EL summer university
After four days of intensive discussions, accompanied by a cultural programme in Valencia, the 4th EL summer university came to an end. A variety of speakers discussed with 150 participants from 17 countries about topics as the current crisis, new ways of development, the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, Latin America and of course the outcome of the last European Elections.
the will to act politically
Among the speakers were the General Secretary Paco Frutos (PCE), the General Director Cayo Lara (IU) and a variety of invited speakers like the former economy minister of Ecuador Pedro Paez, Horst Schmitthenner from the IGM Germany, deputies in the European Parliament like Miguel Portas and Marisa Matias from Bloco de Esquerda (Portugal), Vera Polycarpou from Akel (Cyprus), and many others. At the last day the participants concluded the Summer University with the following proposals: The common platform for the European election presented by the EL parties represents a first step for a left alternative to face the crisis of capitalism and demonstrated our capacity to work together. We should continue this work. Following the analysis of the unsatisfactory results of the last European elections, we find that the people of Europe seem to have a clear lack of trust towards politics, which translates into mass abstention. This is surely one of the major lessons to take from this election, and therefore people should be given the will to act politically once again.
The European Union develops its action based on technical decisions and not on political grounds, in agreement with our governments, which are acting for the benefit of the capital. Our Left role is to fill this space with theoretical work and political struggle, to be able to face a new situation with multiple dimensions to take into account.
- The economic crisis sends a growing population into precariousness and poverty;
- Unbridled capitalism is exhausting and destroying our Earth;
- Our democratic institutions and social achievements are threatened by the neoliberal governments which are at the service of the capital.
The political and economic agenda itself demands from us a work of reflection and development in the short delay:
- Launching an offensive of Latin American countries against the policies of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva September 15th.
- Campaign for the “No” to the Lisbon Treaty on October 2nd in Ireland.
- Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change, December 12th.
New Left political vision
We have to move from proposals to a phase of construction of common conceptual tools that will enable us to reach a new Left political vision. It is a matter of theorical and cultural work , which must be done both at national and European level, in solidarity with all other peoples of the world.
Valencia (Spain), 26 July 2009.
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