Programme

Sunday, 23rd September

  • students from Thailand arrive in Berlin, transfer to Słubice
  • arrival of all students in Słubice

Monday, 24th September

9:30 – 10:00 Grand opening at the University Viadrina (Senatsaal – Main Hall, campus Viadrina), address by:

  • Dr. Gunter Pleuger, President of the University Viadrina
  • Witold Gnauck, German-Polish Science Foundation

10:00 – 10:15 Presentation of the programme: Prof. Dr. Bartosz Makowicz

10:15 – 11:30 Opening lecture: Martin Groß, President of the juristic common examination office for the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg

11:30 – 12:30 Getting familiar with the Viadrina campus and Collegium Polonicum

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch in the Europa Bistro (campus Collegium Polonicum)

14:00 – 14:10Welcome speech in Collegium Polonicum Dr. Krzysztof Wojciechowski, Director of Collegium Polonicum

14:10 – 15:30Lecture: Human Dignity and its Protection in a Multicultural World, part I (CP campus) Prof. dr ha.b Pasqual. Policastro, Chair of Constitutional Law and European Integration, University of Szczecin

15:30 – 16:00 Break

16:00 – 17:30 Lecture: Human Dignity and its Protection in a Multicultural World, part II, (CP campus)

17:30 – 18:00 Working session and introduction by Mr. David Wolfmeyer

20:00 BBQ and get together, organized by Chair for Polish Public Law
Tuesday, 25th September

09:00 – 10:30 Lecture: Protection of Human Rights by the Council of Europe, part I (CP campus) Dr Adam Bodnar, assistant professor at the Human Rights Center of the Warsaw University

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 12:15 Lecture: Protection of Human Rights by the Council of Europe, part II (CP campus)

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15 – 14:45 Lecture: Human Rights Protection within the United Nations System, part I (CP campus) Prof dr hab. Roman Wieruszewski, Poznan Center of Human Rights, Polish Academy of Science

14:45 – 15:00 Break

15:00 – 16:30 Lecture: Human Rights Protection within the United Nations System, part II (CP)

17:00 – 18:30 Reception in the City Hall of Frankfurt (Oder)

Evening Preparation for debating clubs

Wednesday, 26th September

09:00 – 11:00 Transfer to Berlin (by train)

11:30 – 14:00 Visit to the Bundestag (German Parliament)

11:30 – 12:00 Welcome Speech by Member of the Parliament: Georg Schirmbeck

14:00 – 14:30 Speech on fundamental rights Tom Koenigs, Member of the Parliament, Chair of the Parliamentary Commission for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid

14:30 – 15:30 Lunch

15:30 – 18:00 Reception in the Polish Embassy

  • Welcome address from the Embassy
  • Lecture by N.N.
  • discussion
  • finger food and drinks

18:00 – 21:00 Sightseeing in Berlin

21:00 – 23:00 Transfer back to Frankfurt (Oder)

Thursday, 27th September

9:00 – 11:00 Lecture: Protection of Human Rights within the European Union, part I (CP campus) Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Koncewicz, Chair of European and Comparative Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdansk

11:00 – 11:30 Break

11:30 – 13:00 Lecture: Contribution of Constitutional Tribunals to the elaboration of Human Rights Standards, scope of the relevant case law (judicial dialogue), part I (CP campus) Prof. dr hab. Mirosław Wyrzykowski, University of Warsaw, Center for Human Rights, former judge of the Polish Constitutional Court

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Lecture: Contribution of Constitutional Tribunals to the elaboration of Human Rights Standards, scope of the relevant case law (judicial dialogue), part II

15:30 – 16:00 Break

16:00 – 17:30 Debating clubs (at the Court Slubice)

19:00 Evening in Frankfurt (Oder)

Friday, 28th September

09:30 – 11:00 Lecture: Globalization of the Human Rights Protection, part I (CP campus) Henning Glaser, DAAD-lecturer, German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance, Thammasat University Bangkok, Thailand

11:00 – 11:30 Break

11:30 – 13:00 Lecture: Globalization of the Human Rights Protection, part II (CP campus)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:30 Handing out of certificates & official Summer School closing

15:30 Departures of Polish and German students

Saturday, 29th September

  •  departure of Thai students from Berlin