Programme

Conference — Civil society driving the EU sustainability agenda

09:30–10:00 - Registration and welcome coffee

10:00–10:30 - Inaugural session

• John O'Halloran, President of University College Cork
• Christopher O'Sullivan, Irish Minister of State for Biodiversity
• Cillian Lohan, President of the Civil Society Organisations’ Group of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

10:30–11:30 - The strength of the EU's sustainability agenda and its future

• Frans Timmermans, former Executive Vice-President of the European Commission
• Q&A

11:30–12:45 - Panel discussion: Civil society at the steering wheel of the sustainability agenda

Moderator: Anna Schoemakers, Member of the EESC's Civil Society Organisations' Group 

• Enrico Giovannini, Scientific Director of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS) (video message)
• Mary Codd, President of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER)
• Diandra Ní Bhuachalla, EESC Youth Delegate to COP 2023-2024
• Q&A

12:45–13:00 - Concluding remarks

• Cillian Lohan, President of the Civil Society Organisations’ Group of the EESC