Time for Change: Responsible Supply Chains in the Cyprus Context - Conference 19/01/2017

Project Supply Cha!nge, Make Fruit Fair! Place Classic Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus Date(s) 19 January 2017 Type of participants representatives of public, private and civil society sectors, students, other professionals Number of participants <40 Total Duration 1 day Link(s) https://www.facebook.com/events/649132828600606/

Description

The Conference "Time for Change: Responsible Supply Chains in the Cyprus Context" was organised in collaboration between the Global Education Unit of Future Worlds Center and CARDET and was under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Through looking at the global supply chains of supermarkets' own store brand food products, tropical fruit (bananas and pineapples) and metallic raw materials (gold, tin, tungsten, tantalum), we have a good overview of some of the more problematic supply chains, on social and environmental level. Beyond this, the main focus of the conference was to explore European legislation and relevant guidelines, different examples from national legislations, as to use them as examples to promote the harmonisation in local context and the need for collaboration in this framework.

The Conference was very successful in terms of a multi-stakeholder participation and; the results and recommendations coming out of the keynote speeches, discussions and workshops during the event.

Program

8:30 - 9:00 Fair Breakfast and Registration

9:00 - 9:30 Welcoming speeches

• Kerstin Wittig Fergeson - Head of Global Education Unit, Future Worlds Center (FWC)
• Theocharis Michail - Project Officer/ researcher. CARDET

9:30 - 10:30 Keynote speeches - ‘Setting the framework of Supply Chains

• Sophia Pickles - Global Witness (UK)
• Martin Wildenberg - Global2000 (AT)

10:30 – 11.00 Keynote speech ‘Is Cyprus catching up?’

• Charalambos Theopemptou Member of the Cyprus House of Representatives, Deputy President of the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Science and Technology of the Cyprus University of Technology

11:00 - 11:30 Fair Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Discussion/ Q&A - The contribution of civil society and academia towards the modernisation of policies around supply chains

• Sophia Pickles
• Martin Wildenberg
• Charalambos Theopemptou

12:30 - 13:30 Parallel Thematic Workshops/ Discussions

• Raw Materials
• Tropical Fruit and Store Brand Products

13:30 - 14:00 Presentation of recommendations & Wrap Up

14:00 – 14:30 Light lunch & Networking

External Links

• Supply Cha!nge Website [1]
• Make Fruit Fair! Website [2]