Sunday  8 May 2011

Daytime                              Arrival of participants in Gdańsk/Check-in at accommodation

18.30 – 20.00                     Welcome Reception followed by an opening dinner.

20.30 – 21.30                     Organisational Meeting

Monday 9 May 2011 – The History of the Solidarity Movement

07.15 – 08.15                     Breakfast  

09.00 – 10.30                     Lecture: Poland’s Road to Freedom

Bogdan Borusewicz, Marshall of the Polish Senate 

10.30 – 11.00                     Coffee-break

11.00 – 12.30                     Lecture: The Polish Experience of Communism 1945-1980

Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Paczkowski

12.30 – 13.30                     Lunch

13.45 – 15.45                     Workshop on the history of the Solidarity Movement

16.00 – 18.00                     Tour of Gdańsk (2 groups) – City sightseeing/Roads to Freedom Exhibition/Gdańsk Shipyard

18:00 - 18.30                Meeting with Jerzy Borowczak an eyewitness of history

18:30 - 18.45                Presentation of the European Solidarity Centre

19.15 – 20.00                     Dinner

20.15                                    Film Screening 

Tuesday 10 May 2011 – The History of the Solidarity Movement

07.30 – 8.15                       Breakfast

09.00 – 10.30                     Lecture: How, with the use of underwear elastic, we have overthrown communism – a brief history of Polish opposition in the years 1980-1989. Followed by a film screening of Roads to Freedom, Roads to a Common Europe

Miroslaw Chojecki

10.30 – 11.00                     Coffee-break   

11.00 – 12.30                     From the Solidarity Movement  to Solidarity – Meeting with Bożena Ptak an eyewitness of history

12.30 – 13.30                     Lunch

13.45 – 15.45                     Workshop on the history of the Solidarity Movement

15.45 – 16.30                     Break

16.30 – 18.00                     Lecture: New Europe 1989-2004-2011. Followed by a film screening of Solidarity and the World

Piotr Wołkowiński 

18.00 – 19.00                     Dinner

20.00                                    City Game – In the Footsteps of Freedom

Wednesday 11 May 2011 – The Idea and Practice of Solidarity

08.00 – 08.45                     Breakfast

09.00 – 11.00                     Workshops (Social Change, Social participation, Idea of Solidarity)

11.00 – 11.30                     Coffee-break

11.30 – 13.30                     Workshops (Social Change, Social participation, Idea of Solidarity)

13.30 – 14.30                     Lunch

15.00 – 17.00                     Workshops (Social Change, Social participation, Idea of Solidarity)

18.00 – 19.00                     Dinner

19.00                                    Free time

Thursday 12 May 2011 – The Idea and Practice of Solidarity

08.00 – 08.45                     Breakfast

9.30 - 11.00                  Lecture by prof. David Ost

11.00 – 11.30                     Coffee-break

11.30 – 13.30                     Workshops (Social Change, Social Participation, The Idea of Solidarity)

13.30 – 14.30                     Lunch

15.00 – 16.30                     Summary of the workshops

16.30 – 17.00                     Break

17.00 – 18.00                     Workshop Presentations                           

18.00 – 19.00                     Farwell Dinner in the Shipyard

21.00                                    Party

Friday 13 May 2011

08.00 – 08.45                     Breakfast

09.00                                    Departure of participants