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Final Conference in December 2009: 'Making an Impact - Collective Actions Towards SCP'

7th-8th December 2009
Brussels, Belgium

The conference was hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (December 7th) and the Brussels representative of the German state NRW (December 8th).

'Making an Impact - Collective Actions Towards SCP' conference brought together a range of high quality speakers to discuss and develop recommendations about the role of civil society in SCP at a regional, national and international level. The conference is targeting CSOs, researchers and policy makers working in the field of SCP.

The Conference programme was lively, interactive and participatory. It included the following topics and workshops:

• SCP and Policy Development: Panel discussion on how to engage civil society
• Voice of the CSO Platform: Develop concrete ideas for collective actions to promote SCP policy processes at regional, national and EU policy levels.
• CSO’s vision: SCP in Europe. The voice of the CSO Platform will be shaped to concrete recommendations to make an impact towards SCP.
• Creating partnerships for making more impact: three workshops for f solutions for better collaboration between CSOs and other stakeholders.
• Tools for effective implementation: Interactive discussions with experts to learn more about funding, communication and media tools to promote SCP.
• Looking to the future: Interactive panel discussion to summarise the outcomes of the project and to discuss on the future activities, including options to ensure the
  continuity of the online CSO Platform.

See the conference agenda below.

The successful conference brought around 49 CSOs, 23 Research Institutions and 27 Policy Makers and Businesses together to discuss collective actions towards SCP. The report attempts to reflect the presentations and discussions at the Conference. We would be grateful to receive any clarification or suggestions for correction by e-mail to Ms. Satu Lähteenoja satu.lahteenoja@dont-want-spam.scp-centre.org.

To download, see the report from the conference below.

Published at the conference, both case and idea pools are now available here.

	MakinganImpact_Agenda_091202.pdf	597 K
	MakinganImpact_ConferenceReport_091223.pdf	530 K