9.30 a.m. – Accreditation at Stift Göttweig
10.00 a.m. – Plenary session
Opening and welcome speeches
Rt.Rev. Columban Luser, Abbot of Göttweig
Martin Eichtinger, President of the
Europa-Forum Wachau
Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Governor of Lower Austria
Othmar Karas, Vice-President of the European Parliament
Round Table Talk I
Topic: EU Enlargement
Alexander Schallenberg, Federal Minister for European and International Affairs, Austria
Gordan Grlić Radman, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Croatia
Jan Lipavsky, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Czech Republic
Miroslav Wlachovský, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Slovakia
Gerd Müller, Director General, UNIDO
Round Table Talk II
Topic: Switzerland as strong partner in Science and Research for Austria
Martin Polaschek, Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research, Austria
Martina Hirayama, State Secretary, Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research EAER; State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI, Switzerland
12.30 p.m. – Reception
hosted by Johanna Mikl-Leitner,
Governor of Lower Austria
2.00 p.m. – RTI panel hosted by the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research
simultaneously – Journalist panel hosted by the Austrian Newspaper Association
4.30 p.m. – „Danube Salon Europa-Forum
Wachau” on the MS Dürnstein
Round-table talks
Topic: A New Compass – Which Direction will Europe‘s Security take?
Karoline Edtstadler, Federal Minister for
the EU and Constitution, Austria
Peter Burke, Minister of State for European Affairs and Defence, Irland
Tytti Tuppurainen, Minister for European Affairs and Ownership Steering in Prime Minister Sanna Marin‘s Government, Finnland
8.00 p.m. – Youth event on the MS Dürnstein
Networking event
