Passos Coelho and Gouveia and Melo will be speakers at JP School of Boards

O former Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, former presidential candidate Henrique Gouveia and Melo and former minister Ana Paula Vitorino are some of the speakers of the School of Youth Boards, which takes place next weekend.

The School of Boards of the JP, structure that represents the young people of the CDS, will happen between Friday and Sunday (13 to 15 November) in a hotel in Évora, like last year. The director of this year's edition is the former deputy and leader of the district of Lisbon of the CDS, João Gonçalves Pereira.

According to the programme released to the Lusa agency, the intervention of the former Prime Minister and leader of the PSD Pedro Passos Coelho is scheduled for Saturday night, with the theme “Are we still in time for Reformation?” The moderation will be carried out by JP leader Catarina Marinho.

On the same day, but near lunchtime, former presidential candidate and former Chief of Staff of the Armada, Henrique Gouveia and Melo, former Minister of the Sea in the first government of António Costa, and current Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Authority of Mobility and Transport (AMT), Ana Paula Vitorino, and Ambassador Luís de Almeida Sampaio, will share a panel with the theme “The sea as a strategic opportunity: growth, territory and qualification”.

On Friday, the first panel will be on “Future, growth and social lift: political choices in a transitional country”, with the parliamentary leader of the CDS, Paulo Nuncio, the economist and professor professor João César das Neves and Frederico Barreiros Mota, director of Institutional Relations of Sonae.

The next panel is focused on the theme “Sport: undervalued asset for inclusion and projection of the country” and will have as speakers the president of the Confederation of Sport of Portugal, Daniel Monteiro, and sports consultant Hugo Nunes.

Also during the afternoon of the first day of the School of Boards two ‘workshops’ (“Speak confidently”, with the vice president of JP Marta Raimundo and “Negotiate: The art of political commitment”, with Markus Rosenberger of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, and a ‘masterclass’ on “Churchill the statesman: political consistency and leadership”, given by the president of the International Churchill Society, Nuno Ennes.

In the evening, the guest speaker is communication consultant António Cunha Vaz, who will make an intervention focused on the question “Portugal ‘sells’ badly?”.

A panel is scheduled for Saturday morning with the Secretary of State for Internal Administration, Telmo Correia, the MEP of the CDS Ana Miguel Pedro (both vice presidents of the CDS) and the Deputy Secretary of State of the Presidency, Rui Armindo Freiras, on “Schengen: How much is freedom of movement worth?”.

The following are interventions on “Education and new approaches such as social lift”, by Ana Beatriz Calado, president of the Academic Association of the University of Évora, Pedro dos Santos, from the Directorate of the National Federation of Youth Associations and José Manuel Canavarro, former Deputy Secretary of State and Educational Administration.

After lunch, digital influencer Andreia Viegas and Vasco Mendonça will answer the question “Influencers and politics: who influences who?”.

Still during Saturday afternoon, the ‘students’ of the School of Boards will be able to participate in a ‘workshop’ on “Protocol in political life: from rules to practice”, with the director of External Relations of the Legislative Assembly of the Azores, Rute Lacerda.

On Sunday, the last day of the School of Boards, the closure will be made by the leader of JP, Catarina Marinho, and by the president of the CDS and Minister of National Defense, Nuno Melo.

According to the organization, about 50 young people will participate in this edition of the School of Boards.