On behalf of the Institute of New Europe, we invite you to the upcoming conference, The Three Seas Initiative's Role in Transforming Europe, scheduled for December 8th, 2023.

The conference will occur at Varso Place, in the CIC Warsaw space on Chmielna 73 Street (1st floor) - Hall 1&2.

To confirm your participation, please fill out the mandatory registration form:

Agenda

• 10:00 - 10:30 - Registration of participants

• 10:30 - 11:00 - Presentation of the Report by the Director of The Three Seas Programme at the Institute of New Europe, Tomasz Pawłuszko PhD

• 11:00 - 12:30 - Panel - Risks and Opportunities of the Three Seas

  • Maciej Kubicki (The Three Seas Secretariat at International Policy Bureau - Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland )

  • Żaneta Dela (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland )

  • Liubov Zharova PhD (Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Białej, Ukrainian-American Concordia University, Ukraine )

  • Mihály Rosonczy-Kovács (Nézőpont Institute, Hungary )

  • Moderation: Julita Wilczek (The Institute of New Europe)

• 12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch Break

• 13:30 - 15:00 - Panel - Future of Europe and Three Seas Region Development

  • Scott Eastman (Superforecaster, Swift Centre, US )

  • Tomasz Pawłuszko Ph.D. (The Institute of New Europe, the University of Opole )

  • Marta Gębska Ph.D. (The Institute of New Europe, the War Studies University )

  • Filip Lukeš (Institute for Politics and Society, Czech Republic )

  • Piotr Wójcik (the Polish Forum of Young Diplomats )

  • Moderation: Julita Wilczek (The Institute of New Europe)

The starting point for our discussion will be INE's new Report. Among other issues, it will present the prospects for the development of the political and economic situation in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, i.e., in the area of the Three Seas Initiative, with particular emphasis on the future role of Ukraine in the initiative; the opportunities and barriers of the Initiative from the perspective of stakeholders in Central and Eastern Europe; a catalog of good practices for building institutions of cooperation, as well as proposals and recommendations for strengthening the impact of Polish foreign policy in the region.

The conference is organized with the Three Seas Think Tanks Hub, Podróż bez Paszportu, and The Polish Forum of Young Diplomats.

Public task financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland within the grant competition “Public Diplomacy 2023”.