Monday, July 21st, 2014:

All Day: Arrival of Delegates

Tuseday, July 22nd, 2014:

08:30-09:00   Registration

09:00-09:15  Opening Session

1. Welcoming Remarks by Chen Dongxiao, President of Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS)

2. Opening Statement by Zhang Xiaokang, Ambassador, ASEM Senior Official, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China

09:15-12:00  Session One: Connectivity and ASEM

Moderator: Fraser Cameron, Director, EU-Asia Center, EU

09:15-10:25  Presentation (10 minutes for each)

1. Status of connectivity within ASEM space and ASEM efforts to enhance connectivity within members, by Norodom Sirivudh, Founder and Chairman, Board of Director, Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP)

2. Feasibility of mainstreaming cooperation on connectivity in ASEM

by Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore

3. The multi-dimensional impacts of enhanced ASEM connectivity, by Zhai Kun, Director of the Institute of World Political Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)

Open Discussion (40 minutes)

10:50-12:00   Presentation

1. Role connectivity cooperation could play to revitalize the ASEM pragmatic cooperation, by Yong Chanthalangsy, Director General, Institute of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2. Critical areas of ASEM connectivity: reflections for emerging Asian countries, by Tina S. Clemente, Assistant Professor, Asian Center, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Philippines

3. Connectivity, silk road and the role of ASEM, by Cai Penghong, Senior Fellow of Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, SIIS, China

Open Discussion (40 minutes)

13:30-17:10 Session Two: Opportunity and Challenges

Moderator: Jusuf Wanandi, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia

13:30-15:10  Presentation

1. The current international economic system and its challenge to ASEM connectivity, by Xu Mingqi, Deputy Director of the Institute for World Economy, Shanghai Academy of Social Science (SASS)

2. ASEM connectivity: Perspective from East Europe, Cyril Svoboda, Director, Diplomatic Academy Prague, Former Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister of Czech Republic

3. Needs and expectations from Asian developing members, by Fazal  ur Rahman, Executive Director, Pakistan Council on China

4. Knowledge and Technology Connectivity Opportunities and Challenges for ASEM Countries, by Enkhbaigali Byambasuren, Director, the National Development Institute of Mongolia, Office of the President of Mongolia

5. What incentives for ASEM industrialised members, Francoise Nicolas, Senior Research Fellow & Director, Centre for Asian Studies, IFRI, France

6. Cooperation rather than confrontation: changing the game subject this time, by Cui Hongjian, Director of the Department for European Studies, China Institute of International Studies (CIIS)

Open Discussion (40 minutes)

15:30-17:10   Presentation

1. Challenges to connect a most diversified ASEM space, Tan Khee Giap, Associate Professor & Co-Director, Asia Competitiveness Institute, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

2. BCIM and India-China Sub-Regional Connectivity: implications for ASEM, Jagannath Panda, Research Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), India

3. An industrial and commercial look at ASEM connectivity, by Marco Costa, Responsible for the area EURASIA, Centro Studi Eurasia Mediterraneo (CESEM), Italy

4. Remedy to conflicts between the forum nature of ASEM and the pragmatic nature of ASEM connectivity, by Fraser Cameron, Director, EU-Asia Center, EU

5. Implication of major power relationship in ASEM connectivity, by  Pang Zhongying, Renmin University

6. Balanced mobility as a way to improving ASEM connectivity, by Sameer Kumar, Asia Europe Institute, University of Malaya

Open Discussion (40 minutes)

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014

09:00-10:30 Session Three: The Way Forward to an Interconnected ASEM

 Moderator: Norodom Sirivudh, Founder and Chairman, Board of  Director, Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP), Cambodia

1. Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiatives, by GAO Xianhua, MFA, China

2. The tenth ASEM summit and the way forward on connectivity in the ASEM framework – vision of the European Union, Veronika Musilova, ASEM Desk Officer, European External Action Service

3. ASEAN’s contribution to ASEM connectivity, by Jusuf Wanandi，Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia 

4. Role ASEM could play for concerted efforts of Asia and Europe, by Artur GRADZIUK，International Economic Relations and Global Issues, Program Coordinator, the Polish Institute of International Affairs

 Open Discussion (50 minutes)

10:50-12:00   Session Four: Role of Think-Tanks to Enhance ASEM Connectivity

 Moderator: YANG Jiemian (7 minutes for each)

1. Scientific cooperation between Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) and Asian scientific organization, by Stefan Hadjitodorov, Advisor to the President, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

2. Shada Islam, Director of Policy, Friends of Europe, EU

3. Khin Maung Lynn, Joint Secretary, the Myanmar Institute of Strategic & International Studies (MISIS)

4. Tran Viet Thai, Deputy Director-General, Institute for Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam (?)

Open Discussion (30 minutes)

12:00-12:30 Closing Session:

1. Remarks by Fraser CAMERON, Director, EU-Asia Center

2. Remarks by YANG Jiemian, Chairman of Academic Council of Shanghai Institutes for International Studies

3. Adoption of the draft statement