4th International Fair Trade Towns conference – Bonn, Germany 2010
2010-11-05 2010-11-06
The 4th International Fair Trade Towns Conference was held in Bonn, Germany that declared as a Fair Trade City as part of the conference.
CONFERENCE AGENDA
Friday 5th November
10?11 a.m.: REGISTRATION in the Youth Hostel Bonn
11 a.m.: WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION TO THE CONFERENCE (Kathrin Bremer)
Welcome: Rob Cameron (Director from Fairtrade Labelling Organizations FLO)
11.15 a.m.: PLENARY SESSION
Overview of the international lessons learnt from Fair Trade Towns campaigns:
- UK / Bruce Crowther: “Fair Trade Towns – Ten years of age”
- Sweden / Emma Rung: Statistics about short and long term impacts/outputs
- Tadeusz Makulski / PL & NN / Nigeria: Fair Trade in the South & East
- UK / Hannah Reed and F / Gaelle: Results from the last Fair Trade Towns Conferences
12.30 p.m.: LUNCH BREAK
2.00?3.30 p.m.: WORKSHOP SESSIONS OF DAY 1
Workshop 1 “Nord?South?Cooperation“ (Melanie / Ireland)
Workshop 2 „Best Practice“ (Kathrin / Germany)
Workshop 3: “Social media / Online strategies” (Maren Richter & Daniel Caspari / Germany)
4pm.: TRANSFER TO THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY / BONN
5-6 pm.: LORD MAYORS FROM VARIOUS GERMAN FAIRTRADE TOWNS
Presenting their results and engagement
6-6.30 pm.: DECLARATION OF THE CITY OF BONN AS FAIRTRADE TOWN
- Speech of the Lord Mayor of Bonn Jürgen Nimptsch
- Handing over of the certificate to the Lord Mayor by member of the board, Volkmar Lübke / TransFair Germany
6.30 – 7.30pm.: SNACKS AND OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THE MUSEUM
Saturday 6th November
9.00 a.m.: WELCOME AND PRESENTATION OF THE RESULTS OF DAY 1
Melina Choo / Netherlands & Kathrin Bremer / Germany
9.30 a.m.: BEST PRACTICE AND SHARING OF IDEAS
6 sessions (2 * 45 Minutes, so that everybody can choose the two sessions
he/she is most interested in)
1: Communities eg Fairtrade Schools, Fairtrade places of worship, Fairtrade
Colleges, and Fairtrade Universities (Mélinda / Netherlans)
2: Businesses eg. Fairtrade@work (Hannah / UK)
3: Local authorities (Bruce / UK)
4: Effective steeringgroup (Emma / Sweden)
5: Sixth criterium (already prepared by Tadeusz / Poland and Paul / Belgium)
6: Retail shops (Kathrin / Germnay)
11.00 a.m.: WORKSHOP SESSIONS OF DAY 2 (including a 15´ minute coffee break)
Workshop 1: “Short and long term impacts/outputs/results of the FTT?campaign” (Emma / Sweden)
Workshop 2 „Opportunities to campaign together to make trade fairer” (Hannah / UK & Sergi Corbalán/ FTAO)
12.30 p.m.: LUNCHBREAK
2.30 p.m.: SUMMARIES OF THE WORKSHOPS
4.00 p.m.: Light hearted inspirational session
Bruce Crowther + Kathrin Bremer
5.00 p.m.: GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!