From integration to creating more equal chances of participation, civil society plays an essential role in the construction of a pluralistic and diverse society. Thus, it helps to shape the concept of ‘European citizenship’ aiming towards a united Europe. What plausible options beyond institutional democratic structures can facilitate organising and opening a European civil society? How can civil society further develop a narrative that rejects populist discourses and instead presents a Europe built upon the foundations of solidarity and belonging?
Additional input to this topic is offered during the plenary on ‘Democracies under pressure’ and in the Breakout Session 19 ‘The media and populism’.
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Marton GULYAS
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Theatre and film director, YouTube vlogger; Founder, Country For All, Budapest |
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Stefan SCHLEGEL
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Co-founder and board member, Operation Libero; Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen |
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Executive Director, European Alternatives e.V., Berlin
| 2000-2002 | Hockerill Anglo-European College, Bishop's Stortford
| 2002-2006 | Bachelor, European Studies, King's College London
| 2004 | Federal Ministry of Justice, Berlin
| 2004-2005 | Institut d'Etudes Politique de Paris (Sciences-Po), Paris
| 2004-2005 | Amnesty International France, Paris
| 2006-2007 | Master, Modern Society and Global Transformations, University of Cambridge
| 2007-2008 | FLACSO Argentina - Latin-American Institute for Social Sciences, Buenos Aires
| 2008-2009 | Junior Project Manager, GIZ - German International Cooperation Agency International Services, Brussels
| 2009-2010 | Mercator Fellowship in International Affairs
| 2009 | European Department / EU Justice and Home Affairs, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
| 2010 | Office with Regional Function for East and Central Africa, International Organisation for Migration, Nairobi
| 2010 | UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Rabat
| 2010-2013 | Coordinator, European Alternatives Berlin
| 2011-2013 | Evaluation Officer, Camino gGmbh - Werkstatt für Ideen, Berlin
| since 2014 | Director, European Alternatives (Citizenship and Democracy Director until 2015, from March 2015 on Director of Programmes)
Theatre and film director, YouTube vlogger; Founder, Country For All, Budapest
| | Márton Gulyás (1986) theatre and film producer/director. Previously managing director for over half of a decade of Krétakör (Chalkcircle) Ensemble. Gulyás has presented his productions in Budapest, the Berlin Biennale, and the Münich Opera Festival. He is the host of Hungary’s biggest political youtube channel: slejm. He is also founder and activist of the Country For All movement. |
Co-founder and board member, Operation Libero; Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
| | Stefan Schlegel is a legal scientist. He got his Ph.D. from the University of Berne in Switzerland. Stefan got involved in Immigration Law as a student and volunteered in local NGOs providing legal advice to irregular migrants and asylum seekers. Stefan is a co-founder of the young Swiss Think Tank "foraus - Forum Aussenpolitik" and a former member of its board. In 2014, Stefan co-founded the political movement and campaigning organization "Operation Libero" that is fighting for an open and tolerant Switzerland in an open and tolerant Europe. He is a member of its board and responsible for its political program. He is a Senior Research Fellow at a Max Planck Institute in Göttingen (D). |
Former President, German Bundestag, Berlin
| | Prof. Rita Süssmuth is former President of the German Bundestag and former Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Women, Youth and Health in Germany. In 2006 she became the Chair of the EU High Level Group on "Social Integration of Ethnic Minorities and their full Participation in the Labor Market". She was also Director of the Research Institute "Woman and Society" and is currently the President of the Consortium of Germany Universities for the Turkish-German University in Istanbul (K-DTU). Prof. Süssmuth was Chair of the Independent Council of Experts on Migration and Integration and holds a series of other positions with national and international bodies such as President of the German Poland Institute (DPI) and as Chairwoman of the Polish-German Science Foundation (DPWS). |
Journalist and Co-Editor, Republik AG, Zurich
| | Daniel Binswanger, born 1969, studied Philosophy and Comparative Literature in Berlin and Paris. From 2002 on, he has been working as Paris correspondent at different Swiss newspapers. Mr Binswanger has published a weekly column since ten years, in which current political and economic issues of national and international importance are discussed. The column was published in the paper "Das Magazin" until late 2017 and since then in the new Swiss digital magazine "Die Republik". Additionally, he will manage Republik’s new feature article (Feuilleton), starting from September 2018. |
