| 9:00 - 10:00 | Welcome & Opening Conference |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Introductory lecture: Restructuring of EU foreign relations Peter Schulze - Institute for Political Science - Göttingen (Germany) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | BRICS: the 'deepening vs. widening' issues Luciana Dirdala - Iasi (Romania) |
14:30 - 15:30 | Introductory lecture: EU-China-relations |
15:45 - 16:45 | EU-China relations in the very long run Philipp Norel - Poitiers (France) |
18:00 - 20:00 | Guided City Tour |
09:00 - 10:00 | Growth strategies from a sectoral perspective: China vs. India Marta Simões - Coimbra (Portugal) |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | The future of reserve currencies: The Euro, Dollar and the Renminbi |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Experimental economics I |
14:30 - 15:55 | Student presentations (Parallel sessions) |
16:15 - 17:45 | Student presentations (Parallel sessions) |
18:00 - 19:30 | Visit of the exhibition "Objects of Knowledge": The collections, museums and gardens of the University of Göttingen" |
(Institutional and political aspects of the EU Foreign relations)
09:00 - 10:00 | European integration Ken Shackleton - Glasgow (UK) |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Institutional structure of the EU and the budgetary challenges |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | The benefits of the Euro for the new EU member states and its future |
14:30 - 16:40 | Student presentations (Parallel sessions) |
17:00 - 19:30 | Excursion Geopark Göttingen (1. Group 17:00 - 18:30; 2. Group 18:30 - 19:45) |
09:00 - 10:00 | Introductory lecture: EU-India-relations Sebastian Schwecke - Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMis) - Göttingen (Germany) |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | India: a rising superpower? |
| 11:30- 12:30 | Comparison of the economic development in EU, China and India |
| 14:00 - 17:00 | High tempo research |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | Reporting of high tempo research |
09:00 - 10:00 | Economic and environmental law: The European and international perspective Peter-Tobias Stoll - Institut for International and European Law - Göttingen (Germany) |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Climate change and Chinese history |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Trade-offs between economic and |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Company visit Sartorius AG - Göttingen (Germany) |
9:30 - 11:00 | Introductory lecture: Debt and financial crisis Felix Roth - Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) - Brussels (Belgium) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Further thoughts about the financial and debt crisis |
| 14:30 - 18:00 | Introduction simulation game, group division, preparation of argument papers |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Chinese outward investment in Europe Daniel van den Bulcke - Antwerp (Belgium) |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | China's position in global value chains Bart Los - Groningen (The Netherlands) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | The global supply chain in the car industry: EU and emerging countries Luigi Luini - Siena (Italy) |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | German-Chinese Joint Ventures from the perspective of Intercultural Management Hans-Wolf Sievert - Department of East Asian Studies - Göttingen (Germany) |
15:15 - 17:15 | Round table discussion |
17:15 - 18:00 | Reception |
09:00 - 10:00 | The internationalization of competition policy: An European overview Luis Palma - Sevilla (Spain) |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | EU-China relations in the United Nations Security Council and the Chinese views on the International Rule of Law |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Experimental economics II: Laboratory session: Experiment on "Inequality and punishment" |
| 14:00 - 18:00 | Preparation of argument papers for simulation game; turn in by 18:00 |
09:00 - 19:00 | European Council simulation game |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Experimental session III: Public good experiments and results of laboratory experiment Luigi Luini - Siena (Italy) / Claudia Keser - Göttingen (Germany) |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Relations between the EU and Mercosur Inma Martinez-Zarzoso - Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research - Göttingen (Germany) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Mineral ressources, policy and development in Africa Gudrun Franken - Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) Hannover (Germany) |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Expert discussion "Sustainable food security" Andreas von Felde - Manager Energy Plants - KWS SAAT AG; Stefan Schwarz - Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development - University Göttingen; N.N. - N.N. |
16:30 - 17:30 | IP assessement and handing out diplomas |
19:30 - ... | Goodbye Party |