Directors Meeting - Final Agenda
Thursday 10 February
18.30 Welcome and light dinner (at IUED)
Friday 11 February
8.30 Opening
Michel Carton (Director of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, IUED)
Louk de la Rive Box (President of EADI)
9.00 Progress since the Pavia meeting
Thomas Lawo (EADI Executive Secretary)
9.20 Introductory key note presentations :
New challenges for development studies
Jean Ziegler (Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food) :
“The right to food in the context of social and economic rights”
Jacques Forster: (ICRC Vice-President) :
“Humanitarian action and development cooperation in development studies”
10.30 Coffee
11.00 General Discussion
12.00 Charles Kleiber (Swiss Secretary of State for Education and Research) :
“International and European challenges to Swiss higher education”
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Accreditation of Development Studies: Launch of a European Initiative
- Louk de la Rive Box
- Michel Carton
- Special Committee
14.30 Journal Ranking and Development Studies
- Filip Reyntjens
- Louk de la Rive Box
15.00 Coffee
15.30 Group work (European accreditation system, publication ranking, joint projects)
17.00 Group reporting
17.45 Final discussion and conclusions
18.15 Reception with the IUED Scientific Committee and IUED staff
19.30 (upon registration) Dinner with members of the IUED Scientific Committee and Board
