3RD FORUM BPW ADRIONNET

Selected institution

Welcome drink offered by Institution

Participants: BPW delegation, Institutional representatives

Circolo Italiano di cultura, Carrara street 1, Pula

Get-together: Business speed-dating, lobbying and meeting BPW AdrionNet Country coordinators meeting: Eufemia Ippolito (Italy), Doris Sošić (Croazia), Ioanna Lagoumidou (Greece).

BPW AdrionNet clubs and partners

8:00-9:00

Reception & Conference Lobby

Registration and Accreditation (Moderator: Nives Tomišić, Patrizia Šegon, Valeria Varga Radetić – BPW Pula)

Sensi, Saperi, Sapori

- Selling exposition of women entrepreneurs’ products- Lobbying for shopping (Moderator: Izabela Vitasović, Darinka Buršić – BPW Pula)

- Thematic artistic exposition on and about women (Moderator: Nela Načinović - BPW Pula)

- Digital promotions, etc.

Sponsor's corner - Roll-ups and promotional leaflets of the sponsors (Moderator: Darija Božac Marjanović – BPW Pula)

OPENING CEREMONY

9:00-10:00

Conference Hall

Opening Ceremony

Moderator: Jelena Vitasović – BPW Pula

Welcome addresses:

- Amany Asfour - President BPW International

- Alida Perkov - Chair BPW AdrionNet

- MEP Valter Flego

- Istria Region representative

- City of Pula Representative

- Adriatic Ionian Institutional representatives

10:00-11:00

Conference Lobby

Networking Coffee break

Press conference

Sensi, Saperi, Sapori

Sponsor's corner

BPW AdrionNet Country coordinators and BPW AdrionNet Presidents’ meeting

11:00-12:00

Conference Hall

Plenary Session

Women entrepreneurship - Challenges and possibilities

Moderator: Jelena Vitasović – BPW Pula

Introductory speeches: Key note speakers, tbc.

Presenters:

- Alida Perkov- Chair BPW AdrionNet

- Amany Asfour - BPWI President

- Pinella Bombacci - BPW Europe coordinator

- Neelima Basnet - Young BPW International Representative

- Giuseppina Seidita – Finance Officer BPW

- Benedetta Palermo - Young BPW Europe Regional Representative

- Representatives of highest national and regional institutions and distinguished guests

WORKSHOPS & ROUND TABLES

12:00-13:00

Hall A

Round table 1

EU Project Funding Possibilities

Moderator: Istrian development Agency

- Institutional support (Croatian Chamber of Artisans, Croatian Ministry, International Institutional representatives, Istrian development Agency, Istria Region)

- Innovative practices and innovative policies

12:00-13:00

Hall B

Round table 2

BPW International projects throughout the world - Young BPW as a leading force for development

Moderator: Giuseppina Seidita - BPW International

Speakers: Neelima Basnet Young BPWInternational, Benedetta Palermo Young BPW Europe, Tiziana Paris, Young BPW Pula Croatia.

Lessons learned: BPW AdrionNet and BPW Danube net as good practice

- Marion Volk – Chair BPWDN

12:00-13:00

Hall C

Round table 3

Best project practises for women entrepreneurship in Italy, and cooperation possibilities

Moderator: Concetta Oliveri, National President FIDAPA BPW Italy

13:00-14:30

Dom hrvatskih branitelja

Networking lunch

Sensi, saperi, sapori

Sponsor's corner

14:30-15:30

Hall A

Round table 4

EU regional Adriatic-Ionian projects

Moderators: BPW in Croatia - Izabela Vitasović & Doris Sošić.

Speakers: Mariella Pastoressa (FIDAPA BPW Italy)

- Establishing BPW AdrionNet business network of olive &vine producers

14:30-15:30

Hall B

Round table 5

Best project practises for women entrepreneurship in Greece

Moderator: Thalia Valkouma President BPW Thessaloniki, Greece.

Key note speaker: Ioanna Lagoumidou, President BPW Athens, Greece.

14:30-15:30

Hall C

Round table 6

Non-institutional financing possibilities for Business and professional women, and legislation support

Moderator: Tiziana Paris, Young BPW Pula Croatia

Speakers: Agnes Puskas, Chair BPW Danube net, Gian Angelo Bellati, Director of the Fiera Longarone – Belluno, Helga Može’-Regional Foundation for civil society.

- Business Angels

- Crowdfunding

- Social entrepreneurship, etc.

- Business and professional women in expositions and Fair trades

CLOSING SESSION

15:45-16:15

Conference Hall

Closing Remarks of the Forum (Alida Perkov Chair BPW AdrionNet, Giuseppina Seidita, Thalia Valkouma, Danijela Križman Pavlović)

BPW AdrionNet Presidents’ statement

Announcing the 4th BPW AdrionNet Forum (Maria Concetta Oliveri, National President FIDAPA BPW Italy)

AFTER FORUM ACTIVITIES

16:30-19:00

Optional

Pula Sightseeing and shopping in BPW - Friendly Shops

Moderator: Lorena Boljunčić, Elida Cerovac Bakiš – BPW Pula

20:00-23:00

Dom hrvatskih branitelja

Gala and Networking Dinner

8:00-8:30

Circolo Italiano di cultura, Carrara street 1, Pula

Farewell coffee

8:30-17:30

Optional

Sightseeing Istria - visiting Cultural heritage and BPW - friendly points throughout the Istria Region

Moderator: Daria Čelić Trajčeski in cooperation with Dragica Lukin, Darinka Buršić, Loredana Krbavčić – BPW Pula