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SDBCHANGECONGRESS
PROGRAMME

Our chance, our challenge.
​#sdbchange

 from 9:00 am

 to 5.00 pm

DON BOSCO NETWORK and the MISSIONARY OFFICIALS

are present to discuss projects and for meetings with treasurers and PDOs.

from 10:00 am

 to 5.30 pm

REGISTRATION of participants

6:00 pm

OPENING

Opening speech by the UPS Rector

prof. Fr Andrea Bozzolo

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Address of the Economer General

Jean Paul Muller sdb

6:30 pm

ACCEPTING THE FUTURE

Janis McDavid

Speaker, author and world explorer, Bochum/Berlin, Germany

Monday

19/9

Day ONE

Tuesday

20/9

Day TWO

9:00 a.m.

Greeting by S.E. Card. João Braz de Aviz

Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life

9:40 a.m.

FROM PRAGMATIC ACTION TO STRATEGIC THINKING

Speaker Antonello Vedovato - Salesian Cooperator, Founder EDULIFE Foundation ETS

              Juan Pablo Salgado Guerrero, Università Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador

              Maximus C. Okoro sdb Provincial Economer ANN

              Angel Gudiña Responsible of Corporate Funding and Institutional Relations in Misiones Salesianas

12:30p.m.

Lunch Pause

15:00 p.m.

ECONOMY OF POPE FRANCIS

Speaker don Renato Tarcisio de M. Rocha sdb Salesian University of Rome

More efficient cooperation between NGOs and the Salesian Congregation Don Bosco Network (DBN)

16:15 p.m.

Break

4:45 p.m.

ENERGY OF THE FUTURE

Speaker Emanuela Chiang Contact person for Integral Ecology Youth Ministry Sector of the

Congregation's Headquarters

Sara Edmonson

Daniel Ormeno Director of Innovative Projects in Agriculture of Net4Grow

Don Andrea Bozzolo sdb Rector of the Salesian Pontifical University

6:00 pm

Departure for Via Appia Antica

7:00 pm

Visit to the Catacomb of Callixtus

Holy Mass

Guided tour and buffet dinner

9:15 pm

Return

Wednesday

21/9

Day THREE

9:00 am

THINKING AND PLANNING FOR GOOD

Analysis of the Salesian-PDOs

Speaker Louis ManoharBosconet, New Delhi India

              Stephen Igbokwe PDO, ANN, Nigeria

10.30 am 

Break

11.00 am

LOST OPPORTUNITIES
THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON THE YOUTH

Speaker Nelson Penedo

Director General of Don Bosco Mission Bonn

Lunch Pause

12. 30 pm 

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ETHICS

3:00 pm

Speaker Andreas Machnik PaxBank, Cologne

Jorge Bolívar Almela Alveus CEO - Ramón de Meer head of communication Alveus

Break

4:15 pm 

DIGITAL MONEY IN DEVELOPMENT AREAS -
BLOCKCHAIN ​​AND CRYPTO CURRENCIES

4:45 pm

Speakers Filipp Lammens Director General of VIA Don Bosco, Brussels/Belgium

      Fr. Thomas Pallithanam sdb Salesian Rappresentative by the UN

Departure for Cinecittà - Don Bosco

6:00 pm

Visit to Cinecittà - Don Bosco

Eucharistic celebration chaired by H.Em. Card. Peter K.A. Turkson, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican

Guided tour of the Temple and Buffet dinner

7:00 pm

Thursday

22/9

Day FOUR

9:00 am

SALESIAN LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING TIMES

Speaker Anette Schavan former German education federal minister

Moderator Fr Fabio Attard sdb

9:40 am

PASTORS OF THE YOUTH, WHAT DB WOULD DO TODAY

Speaker don Pascual Chavez sdb Rector Major Emeritus

Moderator Fr Fabio Attard sdb

10:30 am 

Break

11:00 am

“SHARED SALESIAN IDENTITY”

- Provincial Economers

- PDO Supervisors

- MO Supervisors

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Team of the General Economer: 

Pietro Tardini, Alex Garratoni, Compagnia Privata, Milano

George Tharaniyil sdb, Director of DBTech Africa, Nairobi

12:30 pm 

Lunch Pause

3:00 pm

COMMUNICATION AS A DUTY: READING AND
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD OF ECONOMICS

Speaker Pietro Saccò Journalist of "Avvenire"

Moderator: Gian Francesco Romano ANS

4:15 pm 

4:45 pm

Break

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, NEW CHANGES FOR US?

Speaker Philipp Larrey

Catholic priest - Chair of Logic and Epistemology at the Pontifical Lateran University

Moderator: Michael Koenen, consultant, Essen/Germania

6:00 pm

Meditation: Mother Margaret, the feminine gaze in Don Bosco's mission.
Mauro Baldessari
, sculptor - Milan

Friday

23/9

Day FIVE

9:00 am

RESOURCES TO GUARANTEE THE MISSION

Speaker Janko Jochimsen Lawyer, consultant, Berlin / Germany

10.00 am 

Break

10.30 am 

Round Table

Speakers

Fr Angel Fernandez Artime, Rector Major SDB

Suor Bolaños Ena Veralis, General Economer FMA

Cinzia Arena, Salesiana Cooperatrice SSCC

Moderator Fr Rafael Bejarano SDB, Youth Pastoral Sector, Salesian Headquarters

11.30am 

The concluding words of the General Economer Jean Paul Muller sdb

12:15 am 

CONCELEBRATION OF THE
EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION

13.15  pm 

Closing of the Congress

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