Mr Costas Stefanis, Minister of Health and Welfare, Greece
Mr Dimitris Thanos, DeputyMinister of Health
and Welfare, Greece
Mr Christos Protopapas, Minister of Press and Mass Media, Greece
Mr. Donald Tait Head of Unit Integration of People
with Disabilities, European Commission (doc/text)
Mr. Yannis Vardakastanis, President of the European Disability
Forum (doc / txt)
PRESENTER:
Mr Dionisis Botonis, Political Correspondent of New Greek
Television (ΝΕΤ)
(10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break)
11.00 – 13.00PLENARY I: “DISABILITY PORTRAYAL IN
THE MEDIA”
SPEAKERS:
Mr. Richard Rieser, Director of Disability Equality in Education,
(doc / txt)
Mr. Peter Radtke,President of Eucrea International – ABM Germany,
The Image of People with Disabilities in the Media (pdf
/ txt)
Mr. Carlo Romeo, Responsabile Segretariato Sociale e Rapporti
con il Pubblico, Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), The Social Action Department
of RAI (pdf/
txt)
MODERATOR:
Mr. Christophoros Vernadakis, Project Research Consulting (VPRC)
(13.00-15.00 Lunch at the Divani Caravel Hotel)
15.00-16.30 PLENARY II: “BEST PRACTICES IN PORTRAYING
DISABILITY: THE WAY FORWARD”
SPEAKERS:
Mr. Peter White, BBC, Disability Affairs Correspondent
Mr. Fernando Mendía, Director of Communication of the Spanish
Organisation of Blind people ONCE, Disability in the Media: the Case of
Spain (doc
/ txt)
Ms. Elspeth Morrison, BBC Disability Trainer
Mr. Giorgos Logothetis, Journalist from Channel ET3 of Thessaloniki
MODERATOR:
Mr Periklis Smerlas, Political Scientist, Consultant of the
Greek Minister of Press and Mass Media
(16.30-17.00 Coffee break)
17.00 – 18.30PLENARY III: “Disability portrayal in
advertising and fiction”
SPEAKERS:
Mr. Dominic Lyle, Director of the European Association of Communication
Agencies, Disability in the media - the Role of Advertisers (pdf
/ txt)
Mr. Carlos Biern, Director ofco-productions,
BRB Internacional (pdf 1, pdf2)
Ms. Alison Wilde, Author of anempirical research project
on disability representation in the media, University of Leeds
(UK)
MODERATOR:
Mr. Enrique Tufet-Opi, Director Communications Europe, Weber
Shandwick
19.00–20.00: Projection of short films followed by a debate
Documentary of the Spanish painter Rafael Arias, by Ms. Ana Martínez,
Film Director and Producer (doc
/ txt)
“To Speak” (by Erik Lamens) - Presented by Mr. Edwin J. FarrMBE, Chair of the European League of Stuttering Associations
(ELSA) (pdf/
txt)
“Palabras de una Vida”, Presented by Mr. Fernando GIL, Producerat Intermedia Comunicación Audiovisual), and Mr. Antonio
Pascual Martínez Gómez (Federación Española de Instituciones
para el Síndrome
de Down) (doc / txt)
PRESENTER:
Jean-Paul Procureur, Journalist and Presenter of theBelgian
Radio Television (RTBF)
(Free evening)
FINAL PROGRAMME - 14 June 2003
9.00-10.30 PLENARY IV: “EMPLOYMENT AND RECRUITMENT OF DISABLED
PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA”
SPEAKERS:
Ms.Wendy Harpe, Senior Diversity Manager, BBC Diversity
Unit (ppt
) (pdf / txt)
Mr. Juan Mª Casado Salinas & Ms. Nuria Del Saiz Gaitan,
Radio Televisión de Andalucía RTVA, (doc/txt
in Spanish)
Ms. Hiltrud Fischer-Taubert, Zweite Deutsche Fernsehen (ZDF)
(doc
/ txt)
Mr Olivier Harland & Mr. Benjamin Laplace, Programme
Harmonisation – Unité « Différence » France
Télévisions, The Public Television services (doc
/ txt)
MODERATOR:
Mr. Patrick Worms, Vice President of Ogilvy Public Relations
Worldwide/ Brussels
(10.30-11.00 Coffee Break)
11.00-12.30 PLENARY V: “ACCESS TO THE MEDIA AND ITS NEW TECHNOLOGIES”
SPEAKERS:
Mr. Paul Gardiner, Head of Technical Standards & Information
Independent Television Commission, UK
Mr. Marcel Bobeldijk, European Federation of Hard Of Hearing
Ms. Leen Petré, European Campaigns ManagerRoyal
National Institute of the Blind (doc / txt)