Plenary day

October 6, 2005. Thursday

8.00	Registration. Morning coffee.
9.00	Greeting notes Artūras Paulauskas. Chairman of Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania. Dr. Nerijus Udrėnas. Adviser of the President of Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania.
	Dr. Aleksandras Abišala. Chairman of the Board of the Knowledge Economy Forum, Lithuania Prof. Vidmantas Egidijus Kurapka. Vice-Rector of Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania Aurimas Matulis. Director of Information Society Development Committee under the Government of Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania Lina Domarkienė. Undersecretary of the Ministry, Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania
9.50 9.50-10.30	Plenary session. Moderator: Dr. Aleksandras Abišala, Chairman of the Board of the Knowledge Economy Forum, Lithuania Prof. Claudia Padovani, University of Padova, Italy, The role of civil society organizations in multistakeholder governance. Lessons from the World Summit on the Information Society
10.30-11.10	Barry Nyhan, Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, Odos Evropis, Greece. Learning regions and knowledge development in a European context
11.10-11.40	Coffee break
11:40 11:40-12.20	Plenary session, continued. Moderator: Gintautas Babravičius, Knowledge economy forum, Lithuania Dr. Ilkka Tuomi, Visiting scientist, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, DG Joint Research Centre, Directorate-General JRC, European Commission. The Great Transformation: Lisbon and Beyond
12.20-13.00	Prof. Rimantas Rudzkis, NORD/LB, Lithuania; Dr. Vadimas Titarenko, NORD/LB, Lithuania Lithuanian economy: problems and perspectives
13.00–14.00	Lunch break
14.00-15.30 14.00-14.45	Plenary session Petras Auštrevičius, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania. The Lisbon Strategy and Peculiarities of EU Countries
14.45-15.30	Prof. Totterdill, Nottingham Business School, The Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom, and Prof. Richard Ennals, Kingston University, United Kingdom. Learning together for local innovation: promoting Lithuania as a learning region
15.30–16.00	Coffee break
16.00-18.30	Parallel session 1. The change and role of public management in developing national and regional competitiveness. How multilevel and multi-stakeholder governance influences economic growth? Moderator: Dr. Olivier Glassey, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Switzerland. Parallel session 2. Principles of life long leaning: from A to Z. Return on investments into a learning society. Moderator: Dr. Andrea Bardi, The Labour Institute of Bolognia, Italy. Parallel session 3. Civil society, labour and social capital. How does social capital stimulate competitiveness? Moderator: Dr.Kęstutis Juškevičius, Open Society Fund, Lithuania. Parallel session 4. Lisbon strategy - Lithuanian homework and the world experience. Moderator: Stig Aga Aandstad , Unit of Lisbon Strategy and eEurope, Information Society and Media DG, European Commission.
	Session 1.	Session 2.	Session 3.	Session 4.
16.00-16.30	Aurimas Matulis, Information Society Development Committee under the Government of Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania The Practise and Tendencies of eGovernment Development in Lithuania	Dr. Andrea Bardi, The Labour Institute of Bologna, Italy The role of manufacturing and low-tech industries in knowledge economy	Dr. Mindaugas Kiškis, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania ir Austė Kraujelytė, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania Technology transfer centres - undiscovered opportunities for social capital in Lithuania	Stig Aga Aandstad, Unit of Lisbon Strategy and eEurope, Information Society and Media DG, European Commission Economic rationale and implementation of i2010 initiative
16.30-17.00	Tatiana Ershova,Institute of the Information Society, Russia Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships: the New Phenomenon of the Knowledge Age	Prof. Robertas Jucevičius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Learning National business system: Illusion or a strategic possibility?	Dr. Alfredas Chmieliauskas, International School of Management, Lithuania Social sciences and humanities in R&D context:strategy of reservation?	Dr. Jari Kaivo-oja, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland Creating Globally Attractive Baltic Rim Research and Innovation Area: Key Challenges of Dynamic Post-Lisbon Strategy Era
17.00-17.30	Prof. Kim Viborg Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Globalization and Government: Five Key Challenges	Dr. Nerija Putinaitė, Office of the President of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania Learning in transition society: failures and expectations	Dr. Stasys Paulauskas, Eksponentė, Lithuania Methods of unblocage of self-regulation mechanisms of present social organizations	Linas Pečiūra, Information Society Development Committee under the Government of Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania Development of National Information Infrastructure features: drew lessons and new challenges
17.30-18.00	Martin van Rossum, Expert consultant of ELANET, The Netherlands Improving public sector performance as double-edged sword for the pursuit of regional innovation systems?	Prof. Vytautas Ostaševičius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Solving problems of Lithuanian science and industry integration	Dr. Aurimas Morkūnas, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania The EU Structural Support as an instrument for the increasing of social capital	Arvydas Kazlauskas, The Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania Lisbon strategy - Lithuanian
18.00	End of day
19.30	Dinner

Second day

October 7, 2005. Friday

8.00	Registration. Morning coffee
9.00-10.30	Plenary session. Moderator: Petras Auštrevičius, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania
9.00-9.45	Andrius Kubilius, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania.
9.45-10.30	Dr. Juhani Pekkola, Ministry of Labour, Finland. The workplace Development programme (TYKES); Social Innovations gain productivity, quality of working life and employment
10.30-11.00	Coffee break
11.00-13.00	Parallel session 1. The change and role of public management in developing national and regional competitiveness. How multilevel and multi-stakeholder governance influences economic growth? Moderator: Prof. Kim Viborg Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Parallel session 2. Principles of life long leaning: from A to Z. Return on investments into a learning society. Moderator: Prof. Peter Totterdill, Nottingham Business School, The Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom. Parallel session 3. Civil society, labour and social capital. How does social capital stimulate competitiveness? Moderator: Dr. Ilkka Tuomi, Visiting scientist, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, DG Joint Research Centre, Directorate-General JRC, European Commission. Parallel session 4. Lisbon strategy - Lithuanian homework and the world experience. Moderator: Linas Pečiūra, Information Society Development Committee under the Government of Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania.
	Session 1.	Session 2.	Session 3.	Session 4.
11.00-11.30	Dr. Marina Sokolova, National Academy of Science, Belarus Deliberative citizens' participation in government planning: the benefits and limits	Prof. Arūnas Augustinaitis, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania Lithuanian Alternative: Educated Society or Learning Society?	Dr. Kęstutis Juškevičius,Open Society Fund - Lithuania Dr. Arūnas Poviliūnas, Vilnius University Prof. Laimutis Telksnys, UNESCO Chair "Informatics for the Humanities" in the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania The role of civil society in rural areas. Case study on the empowerment of community centres using ICT	Rolandas Kriščiūnas, The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania The EU Support to Knowledge Society Development in the period of 2007 - 2013
11.30-12.00	Prof. Rimantas Petrauskas, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania The effectiveness of eGovernance. Lessons of small EU countries given to Lithuania.	Marius Ramanauskas, Lithuanian Innovation Centre, Lithuania Regional innovation strategy	Saulius Spurga, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania The changing Patterns of Civil Society and Their Impact on Governance and Economy"	Prof. Eugenijus Butkus Science Council of Lithuania, Lithuania Research and innovations for the needs of society
12.00-12.30	Dr. Olivier Glassey, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Switzerland From graphical modeling to cross-organizational knowledge sharing in the public sector	Dr. Danguolė Rutkauskienė, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Distance Education Policies Implementing Lisbon Strategy	Dr. Rūta Žiliukaitė, Vilnius University, Lithuania Dynamics of Social Capital in Post-soviet Lithuania	Aurore Wanlin, Center for European Reforms, United Kingdom Is it possible to revive the Lisbon strategy?
12.30-13.00	Dr. Vitalis Nakrošis, Public Policy and Management Institute, Lithuania A new EU structure of governing growth and employment: challenges for the national level	Round Table Discusions	Dr. Guoda Steponavičienė, Lithuanian Free Market Institute, Lithuania Investments to the social capital and increasing of competitiveness	Round Table Discussions
13.00-14.00	Lunch break
14.00-15.30	Plenary session (closing) - summing-up the work of the parallel sessions Moderator: Andrius Kubilius, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuania Dr. Olivier Glassey, Prof. Kim Viborg Andersen The change and role of public management in developing national and regional competitiveness. How multilevel and multi-stakeholder governance influences economic growth? Dr. Andrea Bardi, Prof. Peter Totterdill Principles of life long leaning: from A to Z. Return on investments into a learning society. Dr. Kęstutis Juškevičius, Dr. Ilkka Tuomi Civil society, labor and social capital. How does social capital stimulate competitiveness? Linas Pečiura, Stig Aga Aandstad Lisbon strategy - Lithuanian homework and the world experience. Closing speech
18.00	Dinner