2nd CEE/SEE Regional Colloquium  

Capacity Building on Global Governance and the UN System

Date: Monday May 17th & Tuesday 18^th, 2010

Venue: Faculty of Law, Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 67, Belgrade

Rationale:

Climate Change is undoubtedly the most pressing global issue of our time. For addressing the complex multi-stakeholder and multilevel challenges associated with climate change mitigation and adaptation an appropriate knowledge base is needed not only among public authorities and academia but also among civil society, business sector etc. in order to have problem aware constituencies in the countries of the world supporting with their attitudes and actions governments towards bold future oriented global climate change action.

Preliminary Program: Download here.

Conference Website: http://www.investsciencesee.info/ccandun/

Goals of the conference:

• Support effective climate change adaptation and mitigation in SEE (in the context of EU integration) by means of improved science communication and targeted educational processes
• Support scientific capacity building and capacity building in Higher education sphere and in diplomatic training on global governance and Climate Change
• Inspire educational system(s) reform/modernisation towards future orientation, problem solving competencies and global citizenship in SEE countries
• Facilitate networking and interaction of conference participants and harness the potentials of ICT for global governance and CC knowledge management and learning with concrete follow-up project initiatives
• Highlight and discuss synergy potentials through policy coherence/interministerial coordination and cooperation on global governance and climate change capacity building
• Feed into coordination and cooperation processes of UN system institutions on CC capacity building
• Raising public awareness on Climate change and the UN (especially also on local/community level)
• promote Involvement of civil society and business sector
• involve young researchers/students

Organisers:

• Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, www.ius.bg.ac.rs/eng/ 
• Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, www.fpn.bg.ac.rs/eng/index_e.html
• Environmental Ambassadors, Belgrade, www.ambassadors-env.org/  
• Academic Council on the United Nations System ACUNS, www.acuns.org
• Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office (ASO) Ljubljana www.aso.zsi.at
• Diplo Foundation, Belgrade Office www.diplomacy.edu
• Petnica Science Center - Innovative Sci+Tech Education and Regional Teacher Training & Resource www.petnica.rs
• The European Center for Peace and Development, Belgrade - Ljubljana, www.ecpdorg.net 
• United Nations Association of Serbia, www.unaserbia.rs/ 
• Educons University, Sremska Kamenica, www.educons.edu.rs
• South East Europe Media Organisation SEEMO, Vienna, www.seemo.org/