Lublin Forum 2025: Navigating Europe in Times of Uncertainty is a two day event filled with intensive debates, inspiring talks, and expert analyses focused on the key challenges facing Central and Eastern Europe. In Lublin, you’ll meet renowned analysts, practitioners, academics, and government representatives from Poland and abroad.
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The event will take place at the Lublin Conference Center, Artura Grottgera Street, Room S7, Level 4.
15:00 – REGISTRATION
Jakub Stefaniak, Secretary of State, Deputy Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister
dr hab. Mirosław Filipowicz, prof. KUL, Director of the Institute of Central Europe
dr Dimitar Bechev, Carnegie Europe and Oxford University
PANELISTS
dr Jakub Jan Wiśniewski, Wacław Felczak Institute for Polish-Hungarian Cooperation
dr Damian Szacawa, Institute of Central Europe/Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
dr Dimitar Bechev, Carnegie Europe and Oxford University
MODERATOR: dr Spasimir Domaradzki, Institute of Central Europe/University of Warsaw, Poland
DINNER 18:00
9:00 – REGISTRATION
PANELISTS
dr Vadim Pistrinciuc, Institute for Strategic Initiatives, Moldova
Miodrag Milosavljević, Open Society Foundations Western Balkans, Serbia
dr Tomasz Wiśniewski, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
Yuliya Kazdobina, Ukrainian Prism, Foreign Policy Council, Ukraine
MODERATOR: dr Spasimir Domaradzki, Institute of Central Europe/University of Warsaw, Poland
COFFEE BREAK 10:30–10:45
PANELISTS
Maria Simeonova, European Council on Foreign Relations, Bulgaria
dr Alexandre Kukhianidze, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
dr Mateusz Chudziak, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
MODERATOR: dr Piotr Oleksy, Institute of Central Europe/Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
COFFEE BREAK 11:45–12:15
PANELISTS
dr Bernadett Szél, George Soros Visiting Practitioner Chair, Central European University, Hungary
dr Juraj Marušiak, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
dr hab. Sebastian Kubas, University of Silesia, Poland
dr Łukasz Lewkowicz, Institute of Central Europe/Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland
MODERATOR: dr hab. Robert Rajczyk, Institute of Central Europe/University of Silesia, Poland
COFFEE BREAK 13:15–13:30
PANELISTS
dr Francesco Trupia, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Fatlum Kryezi, Roma Versitas, Kosovo
dr hab. Agata Domachowska, Institute of Central Europe/Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
dr Szczepan Czarnecki, Institute of Central Europe, Poland
MODERATOR: Jędrzej Jander, Institute of Central Europe, Poland
LUNCH 14:30–15:30
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