Dear friends
Please find below an invitation to participate in a training on ISDS on March 5 and 6 in Brussels.
Please inform: <teuntjevosters@tni.org> if you want to participate.
Save-the-Date: Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Training for activists
When: Thursday, 5th of March (12:30−7PM) & Friday, 6th of March (9 AM−3 PM)
Where: office of 11.11.11 − Vlasfabriekstraat 11, 1060 Brussels, Belgium.
Organised by:
Seattle to Brussels Network, self-organised European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) against TTIP and CETA; Friends of the Earth Europe; PowerShift; Transnational Institute; Corporate Europe Observatory; German NGO Forum on Environment and Development; Afrika Kontakt; SOMO; Traidcraft; Transport & Environment; Both Ends.
Who can participate:
Activists from all over Europe, who would like to learn more on ISDS through:
an introduction to investment arbitration,
workshops on concrete cases,
text analysis of the most problematic clauses with example of CETA,
a role play and argumentation training.
Registration:
Please register before February 20 at: teuntjevosters@tni.org
We have a limited budget to offer financial support for travel and accomodation (people from organisations in Eastern Europe have priority)
Please indicate your need for travel funding when you register with full name, organisation and country of origin.
Draft Agenda
Thursday, 5th of March 2015
12:30–1:30 Arrival, registration, lunch
1:30–2:00 Welcome and round of introduction, presentation of the agenda
2:00–3:30 Introduction to the world of Investment Policy
Input: Gus Van Harten, Osgoode Hall Law School
3:30–4:00 Coffee break
4:00–5:30 Text analysis of the most dangerous clauses in investments treaties, CETA as example
Input: Gus Van Harten, Osgoode Hall Law School
5:30– 6:00 Coffee break
6–7:30 Working Groups on ISDS-cases
Cases (draft selection)
• Philip Morris vs Uruguay & Australia
• Eastern European Case
• Vattenfall II vs. Germany
7:30 Joint Dinner (voluntarily)
Friday, 6th of March
09:00–09:30 reflection on ay before, questions
09:30–10:45 Role Play
10:45–11:15 Coffee break
11:15–12:30 Concrete argumentation training
12:30–1:30 Lunch break
1:30–3:00 What can we do to stop CETA/TTIP?
Feedback round
Ecologistas en Acción
c/ Marques de Leganés 12 - 28004 Madrid
Teléfono fijo: +34 91 531 27 39
Teléfono móvil: +34 619 94 90 53
Fax: +34 91 531 26 11
Twitter: @tomkucharz
Skype: ecologistas.en.accion
http://www.facebook.com/tom.
Correo electrónico: agroecologia@
http://www.
Más información:
http://noalttip.blogspot.com.
http://www.
http://www.s2bnetwork.org
http://www.
http://www.aepf.info/
Please find below an invitation to participate in a training on ISDS on March 5 and 6 in Brussels.
Please inform: <teuntjevosters@tni.org> if you want to participate.
Save-the-Date: Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Training for activists
When: Thursday, 5th of March (12:30−7PM) & Friday, 6th of March (9 AM−3 PM)
Where: office of 11.11.11 − Vlasfabriekstraat 11, 1060 Brussels, Belgium.
Organised by:
Seattle to Brussels Network, self-organised European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) against TTIP and CETA; Friends of the Earth Europe; PowerShift; Transnational Institute; Corporate Europe Observatory; German NGO Forum on Environment and Development; Afrika Kontakt; SOMO; Traidcraft; Transport & Environment; Both Ends.
Who can participate:
Activists from all over Europe, who would like to learn more on ISDS through:
an introduction to investment arbitration,
workshops on concrete cases,
text analysis of the most problematic clauses with example of CETA,
a role play and argumentation training.
Registration:
Please register before February 20 at: teuntjevosters@tni.org
We have a limited budget to offer financial support for travel and accomodation (people from organisations in Eastern Europe have priority)
Please indicate your need for travel funding when you register with full name, organisation and country of origin.
Draft Agenda
Thursday, 5th of March 2015
12:30–1:30 Arrival, registration, lunch
1:30–2:00 Welcome and round of introduction, presentation of the agenda
2:00–3:30 Introduction to the world of Investment Policy
Input: Gus Van Harten, Osgoode Hall Law School
3:30–4:00 Coffee break
4:00–5:30 Text analysis of the most dangerous clauses in investments treaties, CETA as example
Input: Gus Van Harten, Osgoode Hall Law School
5:30– 6:00 Coffee break
6–7:30 Working Groups on ISDS-cases
Cases (draft selection)
• Philip Morris vs Uruguay & Australia
• Eastern European Case
• Vattenfall II vs. Germany
7:30 Joint Dinner (voluntarily)
Friday, 6th of March
09:00–09:30 reflection on ay before, questions
09:30–10:45 Role Play
10:45–11:15 Coffee break
11:15–12:30 Concrete argumentation training
12:30–1:30 Lunch break
1:30–3:00 What can we do to stop CETA/TTIP?
Feedback round
Ecologistas en Acción
c/ Marques de Leganés 12 - 28004 Madrid
Teléfono fijo: +34 91 531 27 39
Teléfono móvil: +34 619 94 90 53
Fax: +34 91 531 26 11
Twitter: @tomkucharz
Skype: ecologistas.en.accion
http://www.facebook.com/tom.
Correo electrónico: agroecologia@
http://www.
Más información:
http://noalttip.blogspot.com.
http://www.
http://www.s2bnetwork.org
http://www.
http://www.aepf.info/
