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Every year since 2005 activists, party members, and members of social movements from all over Europe and beyond meet for four days to jointly develop ideas for an alternative Europe. The Summer Universities are jointly organized by transform! europe and the Party of the European Left.
This year's Summer University is held in Italy, in the region of Tuscany from 20 to 24 July. The medieval town of Chianciano Terme will be the venue where the left will analyse the situation in Europe after the Brexit, the future of EU integration, migration, refugees and war, NATO expansion, the rise of far right and nationalist forces, the TTIP and social, environmental and human rights in the liberalization of trade, the environment and the reindustrialization.
The analysis of the situation will go accompanied by alternatives of the European left, like the Alliance against the Austerity (AAA), in which the EL has been working for more than one year, and alternatives against precarity, unemployment, debt, the production model, environmental policy, labour rights, the gender equality – in short, the challenges and policy alternatives on the left.
Location: Chianciano Terme, Hotel Santa Chiara
Shuttle bus transportation will be provided from all Rome airports (Fiumicino and Ciampino) or Pisa and Florence to Chianciano Terme on arrival the 20 July, and departure the 24 July.
Working languages: English, French, Italian
Plenaries and seminars: Professional translation. Workshops: Militant self-organized translation.
Participation fee:
The participation fee includes transport from Rome and back, all events in Chianciano Terme, full board (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and accommodation in a three stars hotel.
Daily visitors are of course also most welcome!
€ 200 euro in single room (€ 50 per day)
€ 160 euro in double room (€ 40 per day)
€ 140 euro in triple room (€ 35 per day)
€ 120 euro in triple room for students and unemployed (€ 30 per day)
The deadline for registration is 10 July 2016.
To register please follow this link: www.european-left.org/service/download/summer-university-2016
Contact:
elsummeruniversity2016@gmail.com
See also: www.european-left.org/positions/news-archive/summer-university-2016
Morning: Arrival and accommodation
17.00 – 18.00 Opening session
18:00 Europe, what next?
20.00 Dinner and welcome cultural activity
9.30 – 11.30 Plenary: Alliance against austerity: debt, euro-zone, for a left alternative
11.30 – 12.30 Workshops: building networks and agenda (self-organized meeting without translation)
13:00 Lunch
16.00 – 18.00 Plenary: The future of EU integration: the 5 Presidents' report and the left
18.00 – 20.00 Two seminars:
1. EL-FEM-Seminar: 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
2. Europe between hope and fear: The challenge for th Left and the nightmare of the far Right
20.30 Dinner
21.30 Cultural activity
9.30 – 11.30 Plenary: Against precariousness and unemployment: working time reduction
11.30 – 12.30 Workshops: building networks and agenda (self-organized meeting without translation)
13.00 Lunch
16.00 – 18.00 Plenary: TTIP and the others. Trade liberalization and social, environmental and human rights
18.00 – 20.00 Two seminars:
1. EL-FEM-Seminar: Feminist Critique of Neoliberal Economy and the Places it Assigns to Women: Strategies against Impoverishing Women
2. Collective bargaining and reconstruction of industrial policy in Europe
20.30 Dinner and visit of Siena
9.30 – 11.30 Plenary: Migrants, refugees and wars
11.30 – 12.30 Workshops: building networks and agenda (self-organized meeting without translation)
13.00 Lunch
16.00 – 18.00 Two seminars:
1. EL-FEM-Seminar: The Global Humanitarian Crisis: Women Trapped between (Civil) Wars and European Border Regimes
2. EU neighbour policy and NATO expansion
18.00 – 20.00 Plenary: Conclusions of the Summer University: For a socialist, ecologist, and feminist alternative
20.30 Dinner
21.30 Concert