Wednesday 26 August

Until 14:00 Arrival and checkin

16:00 Guided tour of Amandola

17:00 Socialisation game: get to know the students!

18:30 Official opening of the school

• Institutional greetings
• Lectio magistralis: ‘In defence of Europe’

Alessandro Mulieri (CNRS Paris)

20:30 Welcome dinner

22:30 Socialising activity

Thursday 27 August

9:15 History of EU and European Integration

• Alessandra Bitumi (University of Teramo)

10:30 Break

10:45 Presentation of the LUISS LabGov project on EU cohesion policy

• Christian Iaione (LUISS University of Rome)
• François Decoster (Vice-President of the Region of Hauts-de-France, Mayor of Saint-Omer, President of the RENEW Group at the Committee of the Regions)

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Climate Goals: winning the challenge of climate goals through the creation of skills and competences worldwide

• Ilaria Catastini (Fondazione Maire)

15:30 Working for the EU institutions – policies in action. ‘Speed sessions’

• Daniele Calisti – Competition
• Niccolò Namari – Trade
• Carla Pambianco – Gender Equality
• Elena Panichi – Agriculture
• Pierpaolo Settembri – Transport
• Marco Valletta – Fisheries

16: 45 Break

17:00 The European Union in the world: a tale of different experiences and perceptions

• Silvia Formentini – Trade Policy
• Elena Panichi – Agricultural Policy
• Marco Valletta – Fisheries Policy

Impulse speech: Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po)

18:30 Break

19:00 Public panel (in italian): Europe in the Atlantic and the World. Based on the book “American Darkness: The United States and the World in the Age of Trump”

• Book author: Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po)
• Moderator: Alessio Bartolacelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
• Panel members:
  • Carlo Ciccioli (Member of the European Parliament)
  • Silvia Formentini (European Commission)
  • Elena Panichi (European Commission)
  • Michele Spangaro (ASSICA)
  • Marco Valletta (European Commission)

20:30 Dinner

22:00 Karaoke night

Friday 28 August

9:15 The EU and environmental policies

• Mariolina Eliantonio (Maastricht University)
• Cristiana Lauri, Professor (University of Macerata)

10:45 Break

11:00 EU Digital Policies

• Mario Guglielmetti (European Data Protection Supervisor)
• Thibault Lager (Amazon)

Moderator: Innocenzo Genna (Senior EU advisor for telecom, Internet and IT )

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Piazza career coffee: meet the professional you want to become

16:30 Simulation exercise, with Joanna Kaminska (European Parliament, European University Institute)

18:00 Break

18:30 Public Panel (in italian): Europe and its territories: cohesion policy

• Guido Castelli (Senator, Extraordinary Commissioner for Post-Earthquake Reconstruction in Central Italy)
• Ernesto Marcheggiani (Polytechnic University of Marche)
• Matteo Ricci (Member of the European Parliament)
• Monica Tiberi (Committee of the Regions)

Moderator: Christian Iaione (LUISS University of Rome)

20:30 Dinner

22:00 Party in Piazza

Saturday 29 August

9:00 Departure for the mountain

11:00 Mountain lecture: The difficult path to the Union, from Ukraine to Türkiye.

• Enrico Albanesi (University of Genova)
• Elif Küzeci (Bilkent University Ankara)

12:30 Dispatch from Ukraine: negotiations on the ground

• Joanna Kaminska (European Parliament, European University Institute)

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Return from the mountain

16:00 CV activity

18:30 Public panel (in italian): EU security and defence

• Salvatore De Meo (Member of the European Parliament)
• Fabio Massimo Castaldo (Italy’s Permanent Representation to NATO and the EU)
• Anna Polico (Chief Representative Brussels Office and Head of NATO-EU Affairs at ELT GROUP)

Moderator: Roberto Tallei (Sky)

20:00 “Cena al contrario” organised by Amandola Youth Organisation, CACUAM

Sunday 30 August

10:00 Checkout

10:30 Public event (in italian): Communicating Europe – meet a new generation of journalists

Moderator: Giulia Bedini (European Commission)

12:00 Farewell ceremony

12:30 Lunch

14:30 End of programme and departure