Chances and Challenges of Digitalization€¦ · 15:00 – 17:00 hrs Time slot for individual research for the Redesign Digital Democracy Workshop, transfer back to the Academy 17:00

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Chances and Challenges of Digitalization Digital Democracy With the kind support of the Czech German Future Fund and the Federal Foreign Office Berlin, October 12-15 2018

Digital Democracy

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Friday, 12 October 2018

Until 13:00 hrs Arrival of participants

14:00 – 14:30 hrs Welcome & Introduction to the programme With coffee and tea

JOHANNA SOKOLIESS & DR. ANNEKE HUDALLA

Seminar directors, European Academy Berlin

ZUZANA LIZCOVÀ & VÁCLAV BACOVSKÝ

Czech coordinators of CGYPP, AMO

14:30 – 16:30 hrs Redesign Digital Democracy Workshop, Part I

FELIPE DUARTE & LILIAN LEIFERT

D. Collective e.V.

16:30 – 18:00 hrs Transfer to the Czech Center

18:00 – 20:00 hrs The impact of digitalization on European democracy as we know it Public Fishbowl Discussion in cooperation with the Czech Center With

DR. CURD KNÜPFER

Director of the Research project “Digitalization and the Transnational Public Sphere” at Weizenbaum-Institute

BIANCA PRAETORIUS

Demokratie in Bewegung (Democracy in motion), Berlin regional section

DANIEL PROKOP

Sociologist, Head of Social and Political Research at MEDIAN

Discussion facilitated by

DR. TOMÁŠ SACHER

Director, Czech Centre Berlin

DR. ANNEKE HUDALLA

Seminar director, European Academy Berlin

Followed by reception

20:30 hrs Dinner in a restaurant

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Saturday, 13 October 2018

08:00 – 09:00 hrs Breakfast

09:00 – 09:15 hrs Warm-up and introduction

DR. ANNEKE HUDALLA

09:15 – 11:45 hrs Who is in control of information? Algorithms, big data and what the European Union can do about it

Debate and discussion

N.N. (tbc)

iRights.Lab

JULIA KRÜGER

Journalist and Internet activist

10:30 – 11:00 hrs Coffee break

11:45 – 12:30 hrs. Lunch at the EAB

12:30-13:30 hrs. Transfer to Berlin-Nordbahnhof

13:30-15:00 hrs. Berlin Wall Virtual reality Tour

15:00 – 17:00 hrs Time slot for individual research for the Redesign Digital Democracy Workshop, transfer back to the Academy

17:00 – 20:00 hrs Redesign Digital Democracy Workshop, Part II

FELIPE DUARTE & MICHAEL METZGER

D.Collective e.V.

20:00 hrs Dinner

Sunday, 14 October 2018

08:00 – 09:00 hrs Breakfast

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09:00 – 10:15 hrs Warm-up and introduction workshop

JOHANNA SOKOLIESS

10:15 – 10:45 Uhr Coffee break

10:45 – 12:45 hrs New digital opportunities for (cross-border) political participation?

Round table

MARTIN SPEER

FreeInterrail Initiative

MORITZ RITTER

liqd.net

12:45 – 14:00 hrs Lunch

14:00 – 16:30 hrs Redesign Digital Democracy Workshop, Part III

LILIAN LEIFERT & MICHAEL METZGER

D.Collective e.V.

16:30 – 17:00 hrs Coffee break

17:00 – 18:30 hrs Presentation of the participants’ podcasts

18:30 - 19:30 hrs Dinner at EAB

Monday, 15 October 2018

08:00 – 09:00 hrs Breakfast and Check-Out

09:00 – 10:30hrs European democracy put to the test, or: how to deal with fake news & hate speech Inputs and discussion

DANIEL HOLZNAGEL

German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection

KAROLIN SCHWARZ

Journalist, Founder of Hoaxmap.org

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VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION

Europäische Akademie Berlin Bismarckallee 46/48 D-14193 Berlin Phone: +49 30 89 59 51 0 Fax: +49 30 89 59 51 95 www.eab-berlin.eu/en/

SEMINAR DIRECTOR

DR. ANNEKE HUDALLA Programme Director, Europäische Akademie Berlin

JOHANNA SOKOLIESS Advisor on civic education, Europäische Akademie Berlin

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

CLAUDIA FEDUR Tel.: +49 30 89 59 51 37 Fax: +49 30 89 59 51 630 E-Mail: [email protected]

PROJECT MANAGER

JOHANNA HÖHN Tel.: +49 30 89 59 51 37 Fax: +49 30 89 59 51 630 E-Mail: [email protected]

10:30 – 11:00 hrs Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 hrs Big Data, artificial intelligence and the “perfect decision”: Will digitalization destroy the very nature of politics? PROF. DR. GARY SCHAAL

Professor of Political Theory at the Helmut Schmidt University

12:30 – 13:00 hrs Evaluation of the seminar/ the programme DR. ANNEKE HUDALLA & JOHANNA SOKOLIESS

ZUZANA LIZCOVÀ & VÁCLAV BACOVSKÝ

13:00 – 14:00 hrs Lunch at the EAB & departure of participants

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European Academy Berlin (EAB)

Understanding Europe. Shaping Europe

This maxim encapsulates - in a nutshell – the aim of the European Academy Berlin (EAB). Since 1963, the Academy as non-profit and non-party institution has been organising seminars and conferences on European topics, bringing together visitors from Germany and abroad. The Academy is an acknowledged player in European civic education, a competent service provider as well as partner in the fields of international education, seminar and project management, and is a venue for learning, encounter and meeting with its own individual atmosphere.

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S-Bahn Linie 7 Station Grunewald

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