Académie Notre Europe
1st Session – Political and Institutional Europe
Friday 15 November

Welcome at the Académie Notre Europe ! On the 15th of November, the Académie will open its doors for the third time and welcome the new Members of its Training program on the European Union and European affairs. The opening session will be a great opportunity for the Members to meet each other, as well as the team of the Académie.

Full Day Program

09:00 – Ice-breaking Workshop

• Sofia Fernandes, Director, Académie Notre Europe
• Matthieu Meunier, Management and Communication Manager, Académie Notre Europe
• Pierre Quénéhen, Event Manager, Jacques Delors Institute

10:00 – Welcoming address by Baudouin Baudru, Head, European Commission Representation in France

10:10 – Presentation of the Académie Notre Europe

• Sofia Fernandes, Director, Académie Notre Europe
• Matthieu Meunier, Management and Communication Manager, Académie Notre Europe
• Pierre Quénéhen, Event Manager, Jacques Delors Institute

11:00 – Opening speech by Enrico Letta, President, Jacques Delors Institute, and Sébastien Maillard, Director, Jacques Delors Institute

11:30 – Europe, an ever-changing construction process

• Enrico Letta, President, Jacques Delors Institute, Founder, Académie Notre Europe
• Christine Ockrent, Journalist, former Director General, Audiovisuel extérieur de la France (AEF)

14:00 – Political, Institutional and Citizen Europe

• Christine Verger, Vice-president, Jacques Delors Institute
• Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul, Officier in charge of participative democracy, European Union Directorate, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs (Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères), former Deputy Secretary General for Citizen Consultations on the Future of Europe and Deputy Director, European Commission Representation in France
• Thierry Chopin, Special advisor, Jacques Delors  à l’Institut Jacques Delors, Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of Lille – ESPOL

A more detailed program available here. You want to discover or rediscover the Académie ? Please visit the Académie website