10th of May 2025 - Polish Day
plenary hall
Guest reception
► Opening of the Congress
Czesław Siekierski - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Marek Woźniak - President of the Greater Poland Region
Tomasz Kobierski - President of MTP
► Summary of 20 years of the Polish countryside in the European Union
Aleksander Kwasniewski - President of the Republic of Poland (1995-2005)
Czesław Siekierski - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz – Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defence
Krzysztof Paszyk - Minister of Economic Development and Technology
► Assessment of the state of the Polish countryside from a regional perspective
Adam Nowak - Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Adam Struzik -President of the Masovian Voivodship
Piotr Całbecki - President of the Kuyavia-Pomerania Voivodship
Stanisław Jastrzębski - President of the Union of Rural Municipalities
Ireneusz Niewiarowski - President of the National Association of Village Leaders
Magdalena Marynowska - Mayor of Osiek Town and Commune
Marek Chmielewski - Polish Network for Rural Development and Renewal; Chairman of the Parliamentary Subcommittee on Rural Development
► Greater Poland Renewal of Villages - an offer for regions
Krzysztof Grabowski - Deputy President of the Greater Poland Region
Lunch
► The challenges of today: space, climate, energy, security
Prof. Anna Górka - Gdansk University of Technology
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Piotr Przybyłowicz - Dean of the Faculty of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering Warsaw University of Technology
Ministry of Climate and Environment representative
Ministry of National Defence representative
► The future of the countryside - directions of change
Ryszard Wilczynski - moderator
Dr Wacław Idziak
Inga Demianiuk-Ozga - President of the Barycz Valley Partnership
Krzysztof Margol - NIDA Foundation
Prof. Barbara Fatyga - University of Warsaw
Mirosław Drygas - Director of the Agricultural Advisory Centre in Brwinów
Monika Stanny – Director of the Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences
► Presentations of the accompanying conferences positions
Scientific conference - Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz - President of the University of Life Sciences in Poznań
ZMW Conference - President of the National Union of Rural Youth - Szymon Migoń
Athletes' Conference/LZS - Konrad Gwóźdź
IGW Conference - Stanisław Jastrzębski - President of the Union of Rural Municipalities
Women's conference - conference organisers representative
► Congress Summary
Czesław Siekierski - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Dinner