Trisomy 21 : What Europe can do? – Program

16 March 2021

Trisomy 21 : What Europe can do?

Visibility, inclusion, autonomy: essentials issues for people with Trisomy 21

 

Date: Thursday 18th of March 2021 – 2 pm

Place: Online conference

Registration on Contact@eufortrisomy21.eu

Language: English, Spanish, French, German and German easy-language, Romanian

 

Draft program:

Parents and self-advocates:

2pm Introduction – Clotilde Noël (France, Tombée du Nid), Rodrigo Escobar (Spain) and Sofia Carnevali (Italy)

2.10pm – Sanna Karosas (Lithuania, Saulytes)

2.15 pm – Natalie Dedreux, Self advocate (Germany)

2.20 pm – Mareike Fuisz (Germany)

2.25 pm – Liana Maria Vislan (Romania, Asociatia Langdon Down Oltenia)

Members of the European Parliament:

2.30 pm François-Xavier Bellamy; France, Group of the European People’s Party

2.40 pm Katrin Langensiepen; Germany, Group of the Greens

2.50 pm Patryk Jaki; Poland, European Conservatives and Reformist Group

3 pm Estrella Durá Ferrandis; Spain, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialist and Democrats

3.10 pm Radka Maxová; Czechia, Renew Europe Group

 

3.20 pm Questions and Answers

3.30 pm End of the online conference

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