The conference is entitled: 'Citizenship as a daily practice. How can European citizens overcome indifference'. Its aim is to explore how humanists view citizenship and how we can play a role in overcoming indifference by developing our moral strength and resilience. The conference programme will include a keynote speaker and various sessions on the subject by European professionals. Topics that are likely to be covered at the conference are citizenship in relation to:

    education
    information overload
    moral counselling
    getting people involved
    globalization
    economic instability.

Programme
Friday 25 May (morning): General Assembly for members of the EHF and its member organisations
(afternoon): Open Meeting on EHF activities and policies
(evening): Conference opens with keynote speaker.

Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 May: Conference: 'Citizenship as a daily practice'. Conference dinner on Saturday evening.

EHP members will be given the opportunity to visit Dutch humanist professionals at their workplace.

Where:
The conference will take place at the University of Humanistics, in the historical centre of Utrecht.

For whom:
The conference is open to everyone but will appeal especially to all members, staff and board/committee members of EHF member organisations and other humanist and secularist organisations, to professionals dealing with citizenship and the topics mentioned above, and to academics and politicians.

More information:
In the coming months, a website will be be created especially for this conference.