Date of the meeting: April 13 - 16, 2007

Venue: Poland, Sucha Beskidzka

Participants of the meeting:
representatives of organizations from France, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, and Poland

Subject: The importance of the activation of small towns and villages for the future of a united Europe

Program of the meeting:

• A visit to the headquarters of the European Information Center in Cracow.
  
  
• Meeting with the director of ECI PhD Paweł Korkuć.
  
  
• Seminar on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Rome Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).
  
  
• The lecture on the history of the signing of the Treaties of Rome delivered by prof. Janusz Sondel – the rector of the University College of Tourism and Ecology.
  
  
• Discussion - participants: president of the European University of Rural Development Camilo Tavares Motagua from Portugal, Gerare Peltre vice-chairman of the Consultative Commission for Small Town and Rural Development at the European Commission, Istvan Bali from Hungary, Kazimierz Barczyk chairman of the Association of Municipalities and Poviats of the All-Polish Federation Regional Associations of Municipalities and Poviats, Maria Grzechynka, Chancellor of WSTiE.
  
  
• Discussion of the next session of the University of Europe's Rural Development in 2008 in Poland.