9.00 – 9.30

Registration

Welcome speech

9.30 – 9.40

Balázs Rákossy,  State Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Hungary

Opening remarks

9.40 – 10.40

Szabolcs Ágostházy, State Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office, Hungary

Sofia Alves, Director, European Commission, DG REGIO, Directorate for Administrative Capacity Building and Programme Implementation II 

Laurent Sens, Head of Unit, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG

Sharing experiences about the closure of Competitiveness OPs in the 2014-2020 programming period and first experiences of the 2021-2027

10.40 – 11.00

Martin Karro, Deputy Director General, State Shared Service Centre, Estonia

11.00– 11.20

Alexandra Vilela, Member of the Board of MA COMPETE 2020, Portugal

11.20 – 11.30

Questions and Answers

11.30 – 12.00

Coffee Break

12.00 – 12.20

Marian Piecha, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Czech Republic

12.20 – 12.40

Balázs Greinstetter, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Hungary

12.40 – 13.00

Boris Škoda, General Director, Ministry of Economy, Slovak Republic

13.00 – 13.20

Daniel Szczechowski, Head of Unit, Ministry of Development  Funds and Regional Policy, Poland

13.20 – 13.30

Questions and Answers

13.30 – 14.30

Lunch

14.30 – 14.50

Velimir Žunac, State Secretary, Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds, Croatia

14.50 – 15.10

Svetlana Gombos, General Director, Ministry of Investments and European Projects, Romania

15.10 – 15.30

Josip Mihalič, Director, Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy, Slovenia

15.30 – 15.50

Lars Wirbatz, Head of Unit, Ministry of Finance and for Europe, State of Brandenburg, Germany

15.50 – 16.10

Questions and Answers

16.10 – 16.20

Closure of the first day

9.00 – 9.30

Registration

Parallel panel discussions

9.30 – 10.45

Impact of the pandemic on employment

New challenges of digital transformation in the post-COVID era

Increasing value of R&D&I with special focus on healthcare industry

Section chair:

Noémi Danajka
(Ministry of Finance, HU)

Section chair:

Dr. Jamie Meehan
(IDEAM, IE)

Section chair:

Prof. László Csernoch
(University of Debrecen, HU)

Discussants:

Urmo Merila
(State Shared Service Centre, EE)

László Velikovszki
(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister, HU)

Csaba Kelemen
(Ministry for Innovation and Technology, HU)

George Carpusor
(Ministry of Investments and European Projects, RO)

Kővágó János
(Széchenyi Funds, HU)

Miguel Marques
(COMPETE 2020, PT)

Discussants:

Vladimir Kramarić
(Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds, HR)

Zdeněk Schreil 
(Ministry of Industry and Trade, CZ)

Anett Nagy
(Ministry for Innovation and Technology, HU)

Paula Ascenção
(COMPETE 2020, PT)

Tamás Berky
(European Commission, DG REGIO)

10.45 – 11.15

Coffee break

Panel discussion

11.15 – 12.30

Restarting the economy with the support of the funds of the 2021-2027 programming period

Section chair:

Werner Pamminger 
Business Upper Austria

Discussants:

Łukasz Marć
(World Bank)

Maria Demertzis
(Bruegel)

Prof. Cséfalvay Zoltán
(Mathias Corvinus Collegium)

Prof. John Bachtler
 (European Policies Research Centre)

12.30 – 12.50

Summary reports by the section chairs

12.50 – 13.00

Closure of the conference

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch