Coordinating and Representative Team (CT and RT) Meeting Banja Luka March 9 -11, 2007 Agenda Friday, March 9 – CT meeting Coordinating Team meeting Friday afternoon, March 9 - RT meeting Committee meetings We will try a new format for our Representative team meeting to provide the opportunity for each of the Teams to meet and prepare their issues for the whole group later in the weekend. A number of members are already part of one or more Teams but others who will be coming who are not currently assigned to a Team may select a group you would most like to work with. Teams will consist of: Training Tallinn Conference Citizens Participation Week Information Technology Initiatives Evening activity and introduction &dinner Please, come prepared to up date the work of all members’ organizations within your country that you represent and share with the group one or two most interesting/successful activities, which you were involved with last year. Also share one failure from which you learned as well. It would also be valuable and interesting to hear what is your perspective about the state of citizen participation in your country and how we, as members of CEE Citizens Network, could support each other. Saturday, March 10 – RT meeting Current level of development of the CCE Citizens Network and its activities in comparison with plans – general information from Director of the Network Chuck Hirt + discussion about addition of Community Development to the work of CEE Citizens Network Election of new CT member Training 2007 – discussion led by Giorgi Meskhidze, chair person of the training team, on possible topics, date and place for the training Citizens Participation Week 2007 – discussion led by Mate Varga, chair person of Citizen Participation Week Best Practice database – its evaluation, follow up and presentation on the Conference E-newsletter – discussion led by Majda Brehem Stojanov, e-newsletter editor Information Technology initiatives – discussion led by Krzysztof Leonczuk and Csaba Madarasz, chairs of IT team Conference 2007– discussion led by Helmut Hallemaa, chair person of the Conference team, on final preparations for the May 2007 event Social evening &dinner Sunday, March 11 – RT meeting Conference 2007– continue of discussion led by Helmut Hallemaa on final preparations for the May 2007 event Citizen forum – information about the project proposal submitted by HACD to the European Commission Suggestions of joint partnership projects for Network members through EU and other possible funding sources Pro-active plan – how to continue and expand pro-active role Creating and approving the 2007 work plan Other Lunch