Euopean Green Week official closing event (#EuGreenWeek)

NOTICE: the venue has limited capacity. Registration is open until May 24th. It is necessary to register and be accredited at the entrance of the auditorium showing ID or equivalent.

The European Green Week is an annual conference on environmental policies where citizens, representatives of governments, industries, non-governmental organizations, academia and the media come together for an exchange of ideas and good practices in the field environmentalist.
The Medialab-Prado culture center is the venue for the official closing on May 25th. It is an act open to the public that will be assisted the European European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment and the Mayor of Madrid.

Among the programmed activities will be meetings, talks, debates and dialogues (program subject to change):

08:00 - 09:00 h Registration and welcome coffee.
09:00 - 09.30h Opening of the Closing event Eu Green Week.

• Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid.
• Karmenu Vella, European Comissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.
• Isabel García Tejerina, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and Environmental Affairs.

10:00 - 11:45h Citizens' Dialogue with civil society organizations, local businesses and institutional representatives

• Karmenu Vella, European Comissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.
• Inés Sabanés, City Councilor for Environment and Mobility, Madrid City Council.
• Paz Valiente, Coordinator for Environment, Sustainability and Mobility, Madrid City Council.
• Frederic Ximeno, Commissioner for Ecology, Barcelona City Council.
• María Sánchez Esteban, City Councilor for Environment and Sustainability, Valladolid City Council.

11:45 - 12: 00h Coffee break.
12:00 - 14: 00h Plausible futures: talk, debate and discussion about future environmental scenarios.

• Margarita Mediavilla,  University of Valladolid. 
• Geert Paemen, Head Corporate Volunteering Telefonica, as a representative of Grupo Español de Crecimiento Verde. 

14:00- 15:00h Lunch.
16:00 - 17:30h European citizen initiatives for the environmental improvement of our cities: videos, presentations and discussion with some European citizens initiatives that work to improve the environment in which we live.