LAUDATO SI' - WEBINAR 28 MAY

Laudato Si’ Reflection Day – Webinar
Organised by the European Laudato Sì Alliance (ELSiA)
How the Encyclical Laudato Si’ can steer the EU’s role
in a just recovery after the COVID-19 crisis
Thursday, 28 thMay 2020, 15.00-17.00 CEST

Registration URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87601529889?pwd=cUtKN3B6SkF1THVZd09BMU5jSTBQdz09

Moderator: Josianne Gauthier, CIDSE
•  Welcome and introduction by moderator and ELSiA co-chair Josianne Gauthier, Secretary
General of CIDSE
•  Opening prayer prepared jointly by Cardinal Hollerich, President of COMECE and Cardinal
Bagnasco, President of CCEE, in light of the COVID 19 crisis.
Read by Cliona Sharkey, Director of EU Programmes and Advocacy of GCCM
•  Keynote speaker Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value
at University College London (UCL) where she is Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation
and Public Purpose (IIPP)
•  Keynote speaker Monsignor Bruno-Marie Duffé, Secretary of the Dicastery for the Promotion of
Integral Human Development, Vatican’s COVID-19 Commission.
•   Q&A from participants via chat
•  Reactions and reflections on the role of the EU and opportunities for action ahead by two
Members of the European Parliament:
o  Patrizia Toia, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
o  Lukas Mandl, Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)
•  Closing reflections and thanks by ELSiA co-chair Peter Rožič SJ, Director of JESC