Programme

19:00
welcome dinner for panelists and guests – restaurant La Bouchée, Údolní 33

The conference is moderated by Thomas Donaldson Sparling, director of the Office for International Studies of Masaryk University, Brno.

9:00 – 9:30
Registration

9:30 – 10:00
Welcome speeches
Otakar Motejl, Public Defender of Rights
Petr Fiala, Chancellor of Masaryk University, Brno
Martin Ander, Deputy Mayor of the City of Brno

10:00 – 11:00
Opening discussion – Financial Crisis and Non-profit Sector - moderated by David Murphy, Environmental Partnership for Sustainable Development, Czech Republic and Andreas Beckmann, WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme, Austria

• Šimon Pánek, People in Need, Czech Republic
• Jack Stack, supervisory board of Erste Bank Group, New York
• Stephen Bubb, Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisiations (ACEVO) and Euclid Network, Great Britain

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break

11:30 – 13:30
Legal and tax incentives supporting activities of NGOs in the EU countries - moderated by Kateřina Ronovská, Faculty of Law MU Brno, Czech Republic and Simona Škarabelová, Faculty of Economics and Administration MU Brno, Czech Republic

• Greyham Dawes, Charity Unit, Horwath Clark Whitehill, London, Great Britain - presentation
• Prof. Tymen van der Ploeg, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
• Anikó Porkoláb, Nonprofit Information and Training Center - NIOK, Hungary
• Nilda Bullain, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law, Hungary - presentation

13:30 – 14:45 Luncheon
Market place – presentation of posters and projects in the conference facilities

14:45 – 17:00
Corporate giving and CSR, strategic partnerships of the business and NGOs moderated by Pavlína Kalousová, Donors Forum, Czech Republic and Klára Šplíchalová, Donors Forum, Czech Republic

• Radka Kaslová, Česká spořitelna Bank's Foundation, Czech Republic - presentation
• Celia Moore, IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa - presentation
• Ján Kondáš, Slovak Telekom, Slovakia - presentation
• Ivana Šatrová, Nadace O2, Czech Republic - presentation

17:00 – 17:30
Coffee break

17:30 – 18:30
Prof. Helmut Anheier, Heidelberg University, Germany - keynote remarks - presentation

19:30-23:00
Reception with Moravian wine tasting and cultural programme (Faculty of Social Studies, Jostova 10)

9:00 – 11:00
Privatization models for the NGO endowments and role of the European foundations for sustainability of the NGO sector in Europe - moderated by Czeslaw Walek, Government Office, Czech Republic and Peter Medveď, Ekopolis Foundation, Slovakia

• Miroslav Kundrata, Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation, Czech Republic - presentation
• Vadim Samorodov, Global Fund for Community Foundations, Russia
• Thomas von Hippel, Max Planc Institut, Germany and Kateřina Ronovská, Faculty of Law MU Brno, Czech Republic
• Tomasz Perkowski, Foundation for Polish Science, Poland - prezentace

11:00 – 11:15
Coffee break

11:15 – 13:15
Charitable lotteries and modern technologies as tools for financing NGO activities - moderated by Tatiana van Lier and Laura Santacreu, Association of Charity Lotteries in the EU (ACLEU)

• Jo Bucci - People’s Postcode Lottery, Great Britain - presentation
• Liběna Marková, Donors Forum, Czech Republic - presentation
• Maritta Koch-Weser, Global Exchange for Social Investment (GEXSI), Germany - presentation
• Ondřej Vltavský, Ministry of Finance, Czech Republic - presentation

13:15 – 14:30
Luncheon

14:30 – 16:30
NGO economic activities and social entrepreneurship - moderated by Christian Schrefel, 17&4 Consulting Ltd., Austria and Petra Francová, Nová ekonomika, o.p.s., Czech Republic

• Matěj Lejsal, Domov Sue Ryder, o.p.s., Czech Republic - presentation
• John Bennett, Pack-IT House, Great Britain - presentation
• Peter Herrmann, University of Kuopio, Faculty of Social Sciences, Finland - presentation
• Vanja Hazl, Centre for Information Service, Co-operation and Development of NGOs (CNVOS), Slovenia - presentation

16:30 – 17:00
Conclusions, end of the conference

• Michael Kocáb, Minister for Human Rights and National Minorities, Czech Republic
• Thomas Donaldson Sparling, Office for International Studies of Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic