Indicative programme - Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council meeting, 23-24 November 2015

MONDAY 23 NOVEMBER 

Place:        Justus Lipsius building, Brussels
Chair:        Claude Meisch, Minister for Education and Youth of Luxembourg

All times are approximate and subject to change

YOUTH

+/- 08.00
Arrivals

+/- 08.30
Breakfast: structured dialogue Youth

+/- 09.50
Doorstep by Minister Claude Meisch

+/- 10.00
Beginning of Council meeting
- Adoption of the agenda
- Approval of legislative A items (in public session)
- Approval of non-legislative A items
- Joint Report on the implementation of the renewed framework for the European cooperation in the youth field
- EU Work Plan for Youth (2016-2018)
- Political participation of young people
- Joint Recommendations (EU Youth Conference)
- The role of youth policy and youth work with regards to migration (in public session)
- AOB

+/- 13.00
Working lunch
+/- 14.30     Press conference

EDUCATION

+/- 15.00     Beginning of Council meeting
- Introduction & tribute to the victims of the Paris events (public session tbc)
- AOB: follow up of the "Paris Declaration on promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education
- 2015 Joint Report  on the implementation of the strategic framework for European cooperation cooperation in education & training (ET2020)
- Reducing early school leaving and promoting success in school
- AOB: Work Programme of the incoming Presidency
- Education and migration: Strategies for integrating recently arrived migrants and people with a migrant background (in public session)

TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER

Place:        Justus Lipsius building, Brussels
Chair:        Maggy Nagel, Minister for Culture of Luxembourg
                   Roman Schneider, Minister for Sports of Luxembourg

All times are approximate and subject to change

 CULTURE

+/- 08.00
Arrivals

+/- 09.00
Doorstep by Minister Nagel

+/- 10.00
Beginning of Council meeting
- Introduction - Paris attacks (possible new AOB on Paris Declaration)
- Culture in the EU's external relations with a focus on development cooperation
- Work Plan for Culture (2015-2015) as regards the priority on intercultural dialogue
- Acting together against the destruction and illicit trafficking of cultural heritage in conflict areas (in public session)
- AOB: REFIT Exercise in the audiovisual sector and other relevant initiatives of the DSM strategy
- AOB: Work Programme of the incoming Presidency

+/- 13.00
Lunch

+/- 14.30
Press conference

SPORT

+/- 13.00
Lunch: structured dialogue Sport

+/- 14.45
Doorstep by Minister Schneider

+/- 15.00
Beginning of Council meeting
- Introduction - Paris attacks
- Representation of EU Member States in the Foundation Board of WADA
- AOB: World Anti-Doping meetings
- Promotion of motor skills, physical and sport activities for children
- The educational potential of sport: helping disadvantaged youth find their place in society (in public session)
- AOB: Proposals for Council Decisions on the signing of the Council of Europe Convention on the manipulation of sports competitions
- AOB: Informal Meeting of EU Sport Ministers
- AOB: The European Week of Sport
- AOB: Work Programme of the incoming Presidency

+/- 17.45
Press conference

• Rada ds. Edukacji, Młodzieży, Kultury i Sportu (23–24 listopada 2015)
• Transmisje konferencji prasowych i innych wydarzeń
• Video coverage in broadcast quality (MPEG4) and photo gallery