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XV Malente Symposium
Lübeck, October 19 and 20, 2004
under the auspices of

Christina Rau
Chairwoman of the German Children and Youth Foundation, Berlin

Youth Employment, Empowerment and Participation:
Securing the Future
October 19, 2004
09:00 am - 12:30 pm   Plenary Session
Chair:   Prof. Dr. Dieter H. Feddersen
Member of the Board, Dräger Foundation, Lübeck, Germany
09:00 am   Welcome by the Organizers
09:10 am   Opening Speeches

The Importance of Youth in the International Cooperation
Jean-Louis Sarbib
Senior Vice President, Human Development Network,
The World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA

Youth Empowerment and Participation – What Youth Want to Achieve – Report from the Youth Dialogue
Henrik Söderman
World Organization of the Scout Movement, Geneva, Switzerland

Youth Empowerment and Participation
Prof. Dr. Robert Chambers
Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
10:30 - 10:50 am   Discussion
10:50 - 11:15 am   Coffee Break
11:15 am - 12:45 pm   Panel Discussion

Employability and Entrepreneurship – Jobs for Concerted Action

Ricardo Berzoini
State Minister of Labor and Employment, Brasilia, Brazil
Giacomo Filibeck
President, European Youth Forum, Brussels, Belgium
Eveline Herfkens
The Secretary General's Executive Coordinator for the MDG, Campaign, United Nations, New York, NY, USA
Hamideh Tabatabaie
Country Coordinator and Head, YES Country Network (YCN) Iran, Teheran, Iran
Moderator:   Prof. Dr. Louis Emmerij
Senior Research Fellow, The CUNY Graduate Center, The City University of New York, NY, USA
12:45 - 13:45 pm   Lunch
02:00 - 04:45 pm   Parallel Working Groups 1-6
Working Group 1   Education & Employability
Chair:   Dr. Assia Brandrup-Lukanow
Director, Division of Health, Education and Social Protection, GTZ, Eschborn, Germany
Speakers:   Prof. Dr. Simon Bradford
Senior Lecturer, Department of Education; Director of the Center for Youth Work Studies, Brunel University, London, United Kingdom
Rajiv Chandna
Global President, AIESEC International, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
James MacBeth
Technical Advisor, GTZ, Kampala, Uganda
Prof. Dr. Werner Michl
Professor for Social Work, University of Applied Sciences, Nuremberg, Germany
Good Practices:   Colm Kavanagh
Program Development Officer, Scouting Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Elsa Meinzer
Basic Education in Urban Poverty Areas (BEUPA), Kampala, Uganda
Working Group 2:   Vocational Education & Training for Employability
Chair:   Manfred Häbig
Head of Section, Vocational Education & Training, GTZ, Eschborn, Germany
Speakers:   Shrikant Bansal
Project Manager, Centre for Research and Industrial Staff Performance (CRISP), New Delhi, India
Prof. Dr. Ute Clement
Director, Institute for Vocational Education, University of Kassel, Germany
Wataru Iwamoto
Director, Division of Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education, UNESCO, Paris, France
Yasmin Nader Youssef
Student, Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt
Carl Martin Sandelin
Senior Vice President, Marketing, Customer & Market Operations, Nokia Corporation, Espoo, Finland
Good Practices:   Torben Jessen
College President, Kobmanndsscolen Aabenraa, Denmark
Risto Karajkov
Program Officer, Balkan Children and Youth Foundation, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Clemens Wieland
Head of Project ”Quality Seal for Occupational Choices – Promoting Professional Qualities at Schools”, Bertelsmann Foundation, Gütersloh, Germany
Working Group 3:   Public and Private Sector Support for Employability
Chair:   Prof. Dr. Robert Holzmann
Sector-Director, Social Protection Unit, Human Development Network, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA
Speakers:   Rodrigo Baggio
Executive Director, Committee for Democracy in Information Technology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Daniel F. Kidega
Youth Member of the Parliament Uganda North, Kampala, Uganda
Rick R. Little
YEN High Level Panel Member; President and CEO, ImagineNations Group, Pasadena, MD, USA
Prof. Dr. Günther Schmid
Director, Research Unit ”Labor Market Policy and Employment”, Social Science Research Center Berlin; Professor of Political Economy, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Magatte Wade
YEN High Level Panel Member; Founder and Chairman of the Board, Agetip Senegal, Dakar, Senegal
Good Practices:   Javier Perez
Head, Information Systems and Services Unit, Chilecalifica, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Fuad Muradov
Chairman, NAYORA; Coordinator of Youth Employment Coalition (YECA), Baku, Azerbaijan
Working Group 4:   Environments for Entrepreneurship
Chair:   Claude Fussler
Special Advisor to the UN Global Compact and Director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland
Speakers:   Joline Godfrey
CEO, Independent Means Inc., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Emil Kirjas
President, International Federation of Liberal Youth; Head of the Office in Macedonia, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Skopje, Macedonia
Fabricio Nuñez de Arco
Director of Business Development, GN Partners S.A., La Paz, Bolivia
Richard Street
Executive Director, Youth Business International, The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum, London, United Kingdom
Claus Wergin
Head of Section ”Labor Market Integration of Young People”, Ministry for Labor, Construction and Development of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin, Germany
Good Practices:   Xia Dong
Deputy Director, International Department, All-China Youth Federation (ACYF), Beijing, China
David Hertz
Coordinator, The Citizen-Cook Project, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Working Group 5:   Education & Training for Entrepreneurship
Chair:   Jane Stewart
Director, Skills and Employability Department; Head of the ILO Task Team on Youth Employment, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland
Speakers:   Zsolt Fehér
Director for Growth and Development in Europe, Junior Chambers Inter-national (JCI) – Worldwide Federation of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs, Budapest, Hungary
Jim Ineson
Director for Europe, Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), Bewdley, United Kingdom
Grace LeClair
Co-Founder of Calvert Social Investment Fund, Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Dr. Rosanna Wong
YEN High Level Panel Member; Executive Director, The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, Hong Kong, China
Good Practices:   Maike Classen
Managing Director, Enigma Company Builders GmbH ’project garage gGmbH’, Hamburg, Germany
Sabine Kittel
Promotion of SME, Competency Based Economics through Formation of Enterprise Specialized on Youth (CEFE), Guatemala City, Guatemala
Nandipha Tshabalala
Proprietor, N&M Catering Services, Johannesburg, South Africa
Working Group 6:   Public and Private Sector Support for Entrepreneurship
Chair:   Antonis Kastrissianakis
Director, Employment and ESF Co-ordination, Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs, The European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Speakers:   Andrew Fiddaman
Director, The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum, London, United Kingdom
Konstanze Frischen
Director, Ashoka Germany – Innovators for the Public, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Jörg Hartmann
Director, Center for Cooperation with the Private Sector, GTZ, Berlin, Germany
Tjark de Lange
President, Jong Management; President, Young Entrepreneurs for Europe, The Hague, The Netherlands
Robert Rubinstein
Founder and Director, TBLI Group, Brooklyn Bridge, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Good Practices:   Manuel Dolderer
Co-Founder and Partner, Institute for Strategy Development, Private University of Witten/Herdecke GmbH, Witten, Germany, and
Ralph Wiechers
Consulting Partner, NOHETO! GmbH & Co. KG, Unternehmens- und Managementberatung, Witten, Germany
Birgit Stanzel
Project Officer GTZ, Public Institution of Vocational Training (INCE) / Association for NGO-Development (FUDEP), Caracas, Venezuela
05:00 - 06:00 pm   Panel Discussion

Youth Employment – A Building Block toward Peace between the Generations and a Precondition for Successful Social Development

Dr. Bernd Eisenblätter
Managing Director, GTZ, Eschborn, Germany
Prof. Dr. Louis Emmerij
Senior Research Fellow, The CUNY Graduate Center, The City University of New York; NY, USA
Sami Kontola
Secretary of International Affairs, Finnish Youth Co-operation Allianssi, Helsinki, Finland
Jingwei Chris Zhou
President, AIESEC in Mainland of China, Beijing, China
Moderator:   María Angélica Ducci
Executive Director, Office of the Director-General, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland
07:30 pm   Festive Dinner at the Schiffergesellschaft Restaurant

Dinner Speaker
Daniel F. Kidega
Youth Member, Parliament Uganda North, Kampala, Uganda
October 20, 2004
09:00 am - 01:15 pm   Plenary Session
09:00 - 09:30 am   Reports from the Working Groups

Rapporteur Working Groups 1 - 3:
Prof. Dr. Robert Holzmann
Sector-Director, Social Protection Unit, Human Development Network, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA

Rapporteur Working Groups 4 - 6:
Jane Stewart
Director, Skills and Employability Department; Head of the ILO Task Team on Youth Employment, Geneva, Switzerland
09:30 - 11:30 am   Panel Discussion

Youth Employment – A Common Global Responsibility

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli
Founder and CEO of Leadership Effectiveness Accountability and Professionalism (LEAP), Lagos, Nigeria
Jose Olivio Oliveira
Assistant General Secretary, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Klemens van de Sand
Commissioner for the Millennium Development Goals, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, Berlin, Germany
Moderator:   Prof. Dr. Eduardo Missoni
Secretary General, World Organization of the Scout Movement, Geneva, Switzerland; Visiting Professor, University ”Luigi Bocconi”, Milan, Italy
11:30 - 12:00 am   Coffee Break
12:00 am - 01:15 pm   Closing Speech and Discussion

Indonesia’s National Action Plan for Youth Employment

Komara Djaja
Deputy Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Jakarta, Indonesia
01:30 pm   Lunch Buffet

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