Programme of the Rotary Zone Institute Hannover 2010 - United in Diversity

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Saturday, 13 November 2010

8.30 - 10.15: 1st Plenary Session (simultaneous translation)

• Welcome, Flag Parade (Chairman PDG Klaus Goehrmann)
  
• Objectives of this Institute (Convener RID Ekkehart Pandel)
• Welcoming message of the host district 1800 (DG Rolf Stender)
  
• Message of the RI President (RI President elect Kalyan Banerjee)
  
• Rotary's new Strategic Plan (RID Elio Cerini)
  
• Preview of RI finances for the next five years (PRID Bernard Rosen)
  
• Less Bureaucracy with Rotary - Keep Rotary Simple! (PRIP Carlo Ravizza)
  

10.15 - 10.45: Coffee break

10.45 - 11.45: 2nd Plenary Session (simultaneous translation)

• The Presence and Future of RIBI (RIBI President Jim Moulson)
  
• How can RI public relations be improved in Europe? (PIRG Area Coordinator Europa Giovanni Jandolo)
• Presentation of Rotarian Resource and Actions Groups
  • RFPD and WASRAG (PDG Harald Marschner and PDG Peter Fritz)
  • Inter Country Committees (PDG Anton Polsterer)
  • MineEx (PDG Gerhard Selmayr)
    

11.45 - 12.45: Workshops: Rotary Issues with Proposals for the Future: The European View

• German: Hans Pixa, DGR President; PDG Charlotte Mori; PDG Erich Hufnagel
  
• English: Ian Thomson, RC Zone 18A; Frank Arnolds, PDG, RC Zone 17; Chris Garner, RI Assembly Trainer
  
• French: Dominique Dubois, RC Zone 11
• Spanish: Julio Sorjus, PRID Zone 13
• Italian: Mario Giannola, RC Zone 12
  

11.45 - 12.45 Parallel Workshops of Rotarian Resource and Action Groups

• RFPD and WASRAG (PDG Harald Marschner and PDG Peter Fritz)
• MineEx (PDG Gerhard Selmayr and PDG Hermann Sacher)
  

12.45 -  14.15: Lunch

14.15 - 15.15: 3rd Plenary Session (simultaneous translation)

• Rotary's Progress in Eastern Europe and in the Balkans (Jozefa Polakova, RC Zone 19)
  
• How to respond to Rotary's membership stagnation? (Klaus Kühn, RC Zone 14)
• "Bigger - Better - Bolder" -  Objectives of  Rotary Coordinators (Nico de Boer, RC Zone 13A+C, 18B)
  

15.15 - 15.45: Coffee Break

15.45 - 16.45: Workshops: European response to the new RI Strategic Plan

• German: PRID Horst-Heiner Helge; DG Christof Steimel; DGE Hildegard Dressino
  
• English: RID elect Paul Knyff; RIBI President elect Ray Burman
  
• French: PRID Cathérine Noyer-Riveau
• Spanish: PRID Julio Sorjus
• Italian: RID Elio Cerini
  

15.45 - 16.45: Parallel Workshops of Rotarian Resource and Action Gropus

• Inter Contry Committees (PDG Anton Polsterer and PDG Uwe Richardsen)
• Rotarian Leadership Institute (PRID Serge Gouteyron and PRID David Linnett)
  

16.45 - 17.30: 4th Plenary session (simultaneous translation)

• Summary and discussion of the morning and afternoon workshops (RC Klaus Kühn)
  

18.30 - 19.45: Reception by the Lord Mayor of Hannover at City Hall (Address: OB Stephan Weil, RC Hannover-Kröpcke)

20.00 - 23.00: Banquet at the Institute Hotel


Sunday, 14 November

8.00 - 8.30: Moment of Silence (simultaneous translation): DGE Hans Jost Schütte

8.45 - 10.30: 5th Plenary Session (simultaneous translation)

• Message of RI President elect 2011/12  Kalyan Banerjee
• Questions and answers with the RI-President elect Kalyan Banerjee and Members of the Board (RID Elio Cerini, RID Ekkehart Pandel, RID  David Liddiatt)

10.30 - 11.00: Coffee Break

11.00 - 12.45:  6th Plenary Session (simultaneous translation)

• Speech of the former RI Peace Scholar (Brigitta von Messling, CSSP Project for Integrative Mediation, Berlin)
  
• "Worldwide Challenges and the Role of Rotary" (Key Speaker Rtn. Franz-Josef Radermacher, RC Ulm-Donaubrücke)
• Results of the workshops (Chairman PDG Klaus Goehrmann)
• Promotion of next year's RI Institute at Milano, Italy, in October 2011 (RID Elio Cerini)
  
• Promotion of RI Convention,  May 21 to 25, 2011 in New Orleans / USA (Peter Offer, Member of the 2011 New Orleans Convention Promotion Committee)
  
• Closing Remarks (Convener RID Ekkehart Pandel)
• Closing Bell (Chairman PDG Klaus Goehrmann)
  

12.45 - 14.00: Farewell Cocktail


Fees:       

• both Saturday and Sunday: Rotarians € 204, Spouses € 114

• Saturday only: € 114
  

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