lre gala program - liberation route europe b2b · speakers rémi praud; À;Æ ;7pªp ª ; ¼...
TRANSCRIPT
b2b . l iberationroute .com / l re-gala-2020
LRE GALA2020
#LREForum2020
FEBRUARY 4 , 2020
EGMONT PALACE
PLACE DU PETIT SABLON 8, 1000 BRUSSELS
4 FEBRUARY
RÉMI PRAUDManaging Director
LRE Foundation
The LRE Forum, the annual event of the
Liberation Route Europe Foundation, is
now in its 4th edition. The LRE Gala, which
is the closing event of the first day of the
Forum, is a unique time in the year when
the members of the LRE Foundation, its
key partners and sponsors gather for a
special event.
This year, the Gala will be the occasion of
hosting the award ceremony of the
Cultural Route of the Council of Europe
certification. This label is the recognition of
years of hard collective work which makes
us very proud.
During the evening we will also hold a new
members’ ceremony, welcoming the
organizations which recently joined the
Liberation Route Europe.
I wish you an interesting and delightful
evening at the LRE Gala!
#LREForum2020
EGMONT PALACE
PLACE DU PETIT SABLON 8, 1000 BRUSSELS
PROGRAM18:30 WELCOME & COCKTAIL
Ambassador Zoltan Taubner, Director of External Relations and Head of the
Liaison Office with the EU in Brussels, Council of Europe
Host: Mr. Rémi Praud, Managing Director LRE Foundation
WelcomeMr. Rémi Praud - Managing Director LRE Foundation
Opening Q&AMr. Robert Croll, Chairman of the board, and Mrs. Lisette Mattaar, director, of
the vfonds (Dutch National Foundation for Peace, Freedom and Veteran Care)
STARTER
Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Award Ceremony
MAIN COURSE
LRE New Members Ceremony
DESSERT
22:30 END OF GALA DINNER
19:30 DINNER
SPEAKERSRémi Praud is the Managing Director of the Liberation Route Europe
Foundation since February 2018. He joined the Foundation in March
2014, as Development and Programs Manager and later became its
Deputy Director in January 2016. After his studies in Lyon at the Institut
d’Etudes Politiques and an MA in European Affairs, he moved to
Brussels to work in relation to the European Institutions. Before joining
the LRE Foundation, he was representing the Lower-Normandy Region
in Brussels. Rémi has been a visiting lecturer at the Institut d’Etudes
Politiques of Lyon from 2014 to 2019.
Judge Robert S. Croll is the Chairman of the Board of the National
Fund for Peace, Freedom and Veteran Care (vfonds). Moreover, he is
Senior Vice President of the High Court of Justice Gelderland, Colonel
of the Military Legal Service Armed Forces, Board member of the
Association of Private Historical Country Places and he is a Member of
the Supervisory Board of the General Pension Fund of KLM (as of
January 1, 2019).
Lisette Mattaar is the director and secretary of the Board of the
National Fund for Peace, Freedom and Veteran Care (vfonds) since the
1st of October 2019. She has many years of experience as a director of
the Humanity House and has therefore been closely involved in the
field of peace, democracy; national and international legal orders for
many year.
Ambassador Zoltan Taubner is the Head of the Council of Europe
Liaison Office with the EU in Brussels, and he is also the Council of
Europe's Director of External Relations since 2008, before which he
spent five years working as the Permanent Representative of Hungary
to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. He has also spent several years
working at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, notably during
the country’s Presidency of the EU.
SPONSORS & PARTNERS
vfonds is the National Foundation of Peace, Freedom and Veteran
Support of the Netherlands. vfonds is dedicated to creating awareness
and recognition for uniformed personnel who serve the Netherlands all
over the world. It provides information, education and publicity for
people who have been involved in international peace missions,
provides support for mission-related reunions and helps societies that
want to redirect their activities towards the developing number of
younger veterans. Since 2012, it supports the Liberation Route Europe
Foundation in its efforts to keep the memory of war alive. It supports
activities organised by the LREF for the promotion of peace,
democracy, moral, ethical, religious and legal law and order and
international justice. It hopes to contribute towards the development
of knowledge on military operations and their consequences for civilian
populations as well as for the people wearing the uniforms, the people
responsible for reinstating peace and security. The vfonds aims to win
respect and appreciation from society for all of these people, by
promoting and celebrating liberation, freedom and peace. It hopes to
trigger social discourse about the importance of these fundamental
ideals and their continuation. It fuels democracy, human rights and
international justice and ensures that we all invest in their future: that
we all invest in peace.
The Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions (NBTC) is the
organisation responsible for promoting the Netherlands nationally and
internationally, financed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs. It focusses
on the markets for holidays, conventions, business meetings and events
and it is an expert on research, communications and marketing. It
promotes the Netherlands in Europe, North America and Asia, the
regions from which the largest number of visitors is attracted. It is
working not only in the tourism sector, but also in other sectors that
relate to it, such as festivals, museums, sports events, accessibility and
mobility. For the marketing of the Netherlands, NBTC uses a
collaboration model that connects public and private partners around
joint marketing activities, such as participation in trade fairs,
participation in processing of foreign markets and online visibility on
NBTC platforms. From 2016 to 2018, the marketing activities of NBTC
and its partners resulted in 5.9 million international visitors and € 3.3
billion in international spending. In its Perspective 2030, NBTC projects
that tourism in the Netherlands will grow of 24% in the next decade,
bringing the number of visitors to 30 million.
SPONSORS & PARTNERS
HISTORY (formerly The History Channel) is a worldwide television
network focused on documentaries and historical fiction series.
HISTORY is one of the most recognised and loved international TV
brands. HISTORY entertains millions of people around the globe
through the inspiring, outlandish and momentous stories of
extraordinary real-life characters whose experiences are often far more
thrilling than fiction. HISTORY challenges the traditional notion of
‘history’ by offering viewers an alternative perspective. Aimed at Life’s
Explorers, its wide range of programming uncovers the why and how of
human stories shaped by fascinating and often surprising facts.
HISTORY has also established itself as the destination for compelling
historical drama, with a line-up of international hits including Vikings
and Black Sails. HISTORY now reaches over 500 million people in 200
countries and 39 languages.
The Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme was
launched in 1987 to demonstrate, by means of a journey through space
and time, how heritage from different countries of Europe contributes
to a shared cultural heritage. The Cultural Routes of the Council of
Europe put into practice the fundamental principles promoted by the
Council of Europe: human rights, democracy, participation, cultural
diversity and intercultural dialogue. The Cultural Routes of the Council
of Europe Programme aims to act as a channel for intercultural
dialogue and promote better knowledge and understanding of
European cultural identity, preserving and enhancing natural and
cultural heritage as a source of cultural, social and local development.
Today, 38 Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe aim to encourage
European citizens to re-explore their heritage by practising cultural
tourism across the Organisation’s 47 member States and beyond. They
encourage sustainable development through the implementation of
grassroots projects and stimulate diversified forms of access to culture
and heritage. They are composed of a broad network of over 1,600
members which allows synergies between national, regional and local
authorities and a wide range of associations and socio-economic
stakeholders, encouraging direct access to European heritage.
Liberation Route Europe represents one of the latest additions to the
family of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe.
SPONSORS & PARTNERS
Fletcher Hotels is one of the biggest and most popular hotel
companies in the Netherlands, with almost 100 hotels all over the
country, from the seaside to the dunes and to the hills of Limburg. All
hotels have a restaurant, and often they are housed in historic
buildings. Other facilities at the hotels include a bar and lounge and in
some cases a sauna, a solarium or an entire wellness centre. Each hotel
is located close to touristic attractions, but also within reach of hiking
routes and cycling paths. The hotels are suited for celebrations, parties,
as well as business meetings, conferences and events. Since many of
the hotel buildings have a history which sometimes also deals with
WWII and with the allied liberation of the Netherlands, Fletcher Hotels
recently partnered with Liberation Route Europe, regularly sharing
stories either from hotels or personal ones in its monthly newsletter.
One of the best examples is Hotel Erica in Berg en Dal which presents
some extraordinary stories as well as a Liberation Route audiospot.
The War Heritage Institute (WHI) is the union between the Royal
Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History, the Belgian
National Institute for Veterans and Victims of War, the National
Memorial Fort Breendonk and the Historic Pool of Defence. It was
established in 2018. Its main aims are the conservation and
presentation of historic military heritage for both sites and collections,
and the transmission of memory in an efficient and effective way. It
manages six former military sites throughout Belgium: the Royal Army
Museum in Brussels, the Breendonk Fort, the Gunfire in Brasschaat, the
Boyau de la Mort in Diksmuide, the Bunker of Kemmel command at
Heuvelland and the Bastogne Barracks. Its aim is to enhance the
collections, developing a varied program and continuously improving
permanent exhibitions; moreover, it strives to develop a national and
European network to prepare or coordinate all military memory
activities. It recently organised the exhibitions“Beyond the Great War -
Belgium 1918-1928”, “Leo50”, a retrospective on the Leopard tanks,
putting together all models, from past to present. and the Royal
Museum of the Armed Forces permanent exhibition “War – Occupation
– Liberation” opened on May 8th 2019.
The LRE Gala will take place at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, a prestigious historical building
owned by the Belgian federal government. The original mansion was built between 1548 and
1560 by the Count of Egmont, first in a Flemish Gothic, and later Renaissance style. It was
transformed in the 18th century, when the property passed onto the Arenberg family, into a
neoclassical style. After World War I, the German Arenberg family was forced to sell the building
to the City of Brussels, which later sold it to the Belgian state in 1964.
Since 1992, the palace has been listed as a protected monument and is nowadays used for
receptions and meetings by the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The LRE Gala will take place in the Mirror Gallery.
Address: Place du Petit Sablon 8, 1000 Brussels
THE EGMONT PALACELRE GALA
4 FEBRUARY
Directions
Naamsepoort / Porte de Namur
Louiza / Louise
Kleine Zavel / Petit Sablon
Parking Poelaert-Zavel
Parking
Poelaertplein
1000 Brussels
6 2 Parking Deux Portes
Waterloolaan 2A
1000 Brussels 6 2
92 / 93
VENUE
CONTACTevents@ l iberationroute .com
+32 2 580 07 33
ORGANIZER &COORDINATOR
MAIN STRATEGICPARTNER
PARTNERS ANDSPONSORS
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
@ l iberationroute
#LREForum2020