11.00 - 11.30

Welcome and Opening

11.30 - 12.00

Gernot Erler, member of the German Bundestag,
Germany and Eastern Europe: Obligations and Expectations

12.00 - 12.30

Professor Pal Tamas, director of the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
„Europe " from East European View: Hopes and Fears

12.30 - 13.00

Professor Wolfgang Kaschuba, director of the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt Univeristy to Berlin
Which Europe?

13.00 -- 14.30

Reception

14.30 - 15.00

Professor Helmut Wiesenthal, Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt University to Berlin
System Change as a Social Science Large-Scale Experiment – Cognitive Benefits of the Transformation Research

15.00 - 15.30

Professor Nikolai Genov, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia; Vice-President of the International Council of Social Sciences, Paris
Facing the Future: Eastern Europe in the Global Context

15.30 - 16.00

Professor Yuri Pivovarov, director of the Institute for Social Science Information (INION), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Russia and Europeanization: Chances and Obstacles.