9:30 – Welcome & registration

10:00 – Opening Session
Isabel Mota, Board Member of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Anders Erdal, Ambassador of Norway to Portugal

ACT I – THE OUTCOME

10:20 – The EEA Grants support to European Civil Society in 2009-14: review and perspectives for the future – Paivi Anttila, Financial Mechanism Office, EEA Grants

10:35 – The EEA Grants 2009-14 in Portugal: overview – Madalena Callé Lucas, Coordinator of the National Focal Point

10:45 – Cidadania Ativa Programme: lessons learned – Luís Madureira Pires, Programme Manager

11:00 – Debate

11:20 – Coffee break

11:40 – Outcomes and impact of the Cidadania Ativa Programme – António Oliveira das Neves and Rui Godinho, coordinators of the evaluation study, Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE)

12:00 – Debate

ACT II – THE VOICE

12:30 – The People: After the Night…the Day
Interviewer: Sónia Fernandes
Interview with Inês Rapazote and José Carlos Carvalho on the book “No matter how dark the night is… tomorrow is another day”

13:00 – Lunch Break

14:30 – The NGOs: Before and After
Moderator: Viriato Soromenho-Marques, Full professor at the University of Lisbon
Nelson Dias – project Portugal Participa, Associação IN LOCO
Ana Lúcia Silva – project CarryOn, Sociedade Portuguesa de Vida Selvagem
Joana Mendonça – projects Mais and Mais Centro, Associação TESE
Graça Rojão – project Idearia, Coolabora, CRL

15:45 – Debate

ACT III – THE MESSAGE

16:00 – Conference on “Human Rights and Democracy in Today’s Europe”
Paul d’Auchamp, Acting Representative for Europe of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

16:30 – Closing Session
Artur Santos Silva, President of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Teresa Ribeiro, Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation