The Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade in cooperation with the Danube Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade have the pleasure to invite you to the conference entitled “Danube Commission 70 years – Inland Navigation: Diagnosis, Institutions and Visions in Europe”
to be held on
13th (Tuesday) November 2018 between 12:00-16:45
at the
Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade
13-15. Bérc Street, Budapest 1016
Please register until 12 November 12:00 am
The language of the conference will be English.
No audio or visual recording of the event is allowed without the advance and written permission of the organizers.
Program
12:00 – 12:30 Registration to the public panel discussions
12:30 – 12:35 Welcome remarks
Márton Ugrósdy, Director, Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade
12:35 – 12:45 Keynote speech
Péter Sztáray, State Secretary for Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Hungary
12:45 – 12:55 Keynote speech
Oleg Ţulea, Ambassador of the Republic of Moldova, Vice-President of the Danube Commission
12:55 – 13:05 Keynote speech
Karla Peijs, Rhine Danube Core Network Corridor Coordinator
13:05 – 14:35 Panel I: Challenges and opportunities of inland navigation
Botond Szalma, Managing Director, Fluvius Kft.
Béla Csányi, Hydrobiologist, Team Member of Joint Danube Survey
Tibor Mátyás, CEO, DDSG MAHART Kft.
Petar Margić, Director-General, Secretariat of the Danube Commission
Béla Szalma, President, Hungarian Federation of Danube Ports
Gábor Sági, COO, Mahart PassNave Kft.
Moderated by Róbert Rafael, Senior Project Manager, Pro Danube International
14:35– 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:30 Panel II: Visions for the future of the Danube and inland navigation
Petar Margić, Director-General, Secretariat of the Danube Commission
Bruno Georges, Secretary General Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine
Helene Masliah-Gilkarov, Technical Expert, Public Participation and Communication, ICPDR
Gert-Jan Muilerman, Priority Area Coordinator of Austria, Danube Region Strategy
László Balatonyi, Head of Flood Protection Department, General Directorate of Water Management Hungary
Moderated by Diána Szőke, Senior Analyst, Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade
16:30 – 16:45 Closing remarks
Gyurcsík Iván, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the Danube Commission
16:45 Reception