Below are some insights from my recent conference trips as part of promoting „good foreign practices”.
First, an interesting observation from the conference on lobbying organized at the University of Perugia („Il Cantiere delle Lobbies”, Università degli Studi di Perugia, 22-23 November 2018).
Well – in Italy it is different than in Poland, where the chairman of the panel is usually limited to giving voice and reminding that the time of the speach is coming to an end, or giving the floor to the audience during the discussion. In Poland, the written text of the speech is not always ready before the presentation, which makes the speech a manifestation of the speaker’s „spontaneous stream of thoughts”. What’s even worse is that the text is printed before the conference and given on the day of the conference to all participants (the worst option: „we did not manage to print it on time”). In the first option – the presentation can be immature, in the second – the discussion and opinions of the listeners will not affect the text. It also happens that after the lecture there is no discussion or statements are unrelated to the topic of the speech.












