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date	September 5, 2019 - September 8, 2019
city	Funchal, Portugal
organisation	European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ACRE) i

ECR Party Training Academy

5 September-8 September 2019 | Funchal, Madeira

The ECR party is becoming a university for the duration of three days this September.

We will be offering introductions by leading experts on strategic communications, successful campaigning and effective Fundraising.

Additionally, panels on productive interaction with the Press as well as contemporary evolutions and usage of Social media will be held throughout the event.

There, political operatives, journalists and communication experts will discuss new trends and innovative techniques to efficiently integrate modern media in communication strategies, both on and offline.

The end of the training will give the opportunity to audience members to engage in a Q&A with speakers.

Our goal in this event is to give the most relevant and up to date tools to member Conservatives movements both in Europe and the rest of the world. The ECR Party considers it essential to function as a platform that brings Conservatives from different backgrounds together, to share ideas, conclusions, and strengthen international relationships.

In order to deliver on this function, we have secured top of the line facilities in Funchal, 1 main theatre and 3 conference rooms will be dedicated to sharing useful information to bring back home.

Last, but certainly not least, cultural activities will be offered to discover Madeira. The island may be a small archipelagic location, but it boasts a rich history. Today, looking around the place would still make anyone feel nostalgic because of the preserved olden architecture and the maintained rustic beauty that envelopes the island.

Even if the locals have embraced modernity and industrialism, the island still echoes its rich heritage.

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We look forward to hosting you in Funchal. Below you will find everything you need to know about your visit.

Flights

Your flights should by now have been arranged and the e-ticket sent to you by email; please check your ticket is correct, if you have not received it or have any other issues please URGENTLY contact Sabrina Capaldi email: s.capaldi@ecrparty.eu

Visa

If you require a visa to visit Portugal, please ensure that you get one. ECR Party cannot assist with visa applications.

Insurance

Please ensure you have adequate medical and repatriation insurance.

Transfers

We will not be able to arrange transfers. Taxi service can be found at the airport, the transfer costs about 25 euros. Public transport is also quite efficient.

Hotels

Your hotel should by now have been mentioned to you by email, if you have not received it or have any other issues please URGENTLY contact Sabrina Capaldi email: s.capaldi@ecrparty.eu

Guests will be staying at the:

VidaMar Resort Hotel Madeira

Estrada Monumental 175 177, 9000-100 Funchal

+351 291 717 600

There is also an overspill hotel at:

Meliá Madeira Mare Hotel

Rua de Leichlingen 2, 9000-003 Funchal

+351 291 724 140

You will have been informed if you are styaing at the Meliá Mare Hotel

The two hotels are close to each other.

The cost of your rooms and breakfast for the duration of the conference will be covered. The dinners on Thursday night, Friday night as well as Saturday night will be covered. So will be lunch during the Conference on Friday. You will need to cover any extras, such as extra room nights, spa treatments and other personal extras. The hotel will ask for your credit card details to guarantee this upon arrival.

Programme

Thursday 5th September

20h00 Dinner at the VidaMar Resort Hotel: Selvagens Terrace, 4th Floor, Tower 2

Friday 6th September

10h00 - 17h15 Training Academy at the Hotel Vidamar

20h00 Dinner at the Vidamar Resort Hotel

Saturday 7th September

08h30 Working Breakfast at the Vidamar Hotel followed by Free Time

18h00 Departure to Blandy’s Wine Festival from the Vidamar Resort Hotel

Sunday 8th September

Departures

Dress Code

The dress code is: smart casual for all events (no shorts or flipflops)

Key Staff Contact

Sabrina Capaldi +32 499 528 701

Benjamin Pogorel +33 6 95 46 60 26

ECR Party Training Academy Agenda

The full agenda is available online at www.acreurope.eu and will be updated at all times.

Social Media

The twitter and Instagram handle for ECR party is @ECRparty. The event has a hashtag #ECRAcademy .

Please be sure to tag us in your photos and mentions throughout the event.

See Friday's Agenda Below

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SPEAKERS

Richard Murphy

Managing Director of Communication Strategy and Management (CSM)

Richard Murphy is Managing Director of Communication Strategy & Management Ltd, a political campaigns’ consulting firm based in the UK. CSM works alongside British Members of Parliament and MEPs delivering professional advice on the construction and management of their communication strategies. With more than twenty five years’ experience of working professionally with the Conservative Party, Richard has campaigned with seven party leaders including Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Theresa May. He has a wealth of experience and expertise in structuring and managing grassroots election campaigns at European, Parliamentary and Local Government levels. He also played a leading role in the national grassroots organisation for the ‘Leave’ campaign during the UK’s referendum on exiting the EU in 2016. Richard specialises in training party members nationwide in “on the ground” field campaigning techniques. In particular, this includes volunteer capacity building, party structures, membership, campaign team creation, GOTV and polling day organisation. Richard has also trained campaigns’ activists in countries such as Trinidad & Tobago, Bosnia Herzegovina, Ukraine, Moldova, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro. Richard is a long-time member of the Institute of Leadership and Management. He is also a former Board member of both the European Association of Political Consultants and the International Association of Political Consultants and remains a leading and active member of both organisations.

Richard Murphy

Managing Director of Communication Strategy and Management (CSM)

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James Wharton

Former U.K. Government Minister

@jameswhartonuk

James Wharton is a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Minister for International Development, and previously Minister for the Northern Powerhouse. Wharton was the Member of Parliament for his home constituency of Stockton South from 2010 and until the 2017 general election. He studied Law at Durham University, and following his graduation he studied the Legal Practice Course at The College of Law in York and qualified as a solicitor with BHP Law, a firm in the Northeast.

James Wharton

Former U.K. Government Minister

bio @jameswhartonuk

Ronald Nehring

Director of International Programs

Ron Nehring, Director of International Training at The Leadership Institute, is a Republican strategist and communications expert who served as National Spokesman in the 2016 Presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz. As a communicator and Republican Party Chairman, Ron Nehring has made the advancement of the principles of effective and limited government, individual liberty and freedom his life’s work.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him to the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection in 2005 in the aftermath of the Cedar Fire, the largest and most destructive wildfire in American history. During his tenure, Ron participated in the development of new regulations to improve management of lands and property to reduce wildfire threats to families and communities.

To promote the principles of democracy and liberty around the world, he has served as avolunteer expert lecturer and trainer in the areas of governance and communications for government officials and candidates in regions including Bosnia, Serbia, Morocco, Egypt, Guatemala, and Iraq. He has served as an international election observer in Kenya and Honduras.

Ronald Nehring

Director of International Programs

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Charlotte Milligan

Professional Consultant

Charlotte is a professional consultant with a background in the media, working for the BBC and ITV Yorkshire for 20 years as Political Editor and Head of Current Affairs. Charlotte has worked and lived in Yorkshire for 30 years and is a keen advocate and communicator on both the devolution and Northern Powerhouse agenda.

She has also worked in public affairs and is no stranger to Westminster politics, having provided political and media support to Kevin Hollinrake, MP for Thirsk and Malton. Charlotte also works on the Court of York University and is an expert commentator on how universities can contribute to the devolution agenda. As a former broadcaster, Charlotte also provides expert and high-level media training designed to help senior executives improve their media performance and deliver robust messages under pressure.

Charlotte Milligan

Professional Consultant

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Thomas Borwick

Founder & Director of Kanto

Thomas Borwick found his passion in data driven corporate, political and social campaigns. It was this that led him to found Kanto, a smart political consultancy that marries traditional campaigning techniques with new technologies; bringing together people, data and technology to empower individuals, movements and organisations.

Thomas has an in-depth knowledge of the British political arena, as well as the ability and willingness to be internationally mobile, which is the key to success in this field. My knowledge of data gathering and data processing tools gives me a unique outlook on how campaigns should be organised. This, coupled with our research in social media engagement and patterns of usage, gives us the foundations to build groundbreaking campaigns at multiple levels.

My most significant work as Chief Technical Officer for the Vote Leave Campaign where our campaign helped digitally galvanize and engage the nation on a scale never before seen. I have also worked on over 20 MP campaigns across the country as well as internationally in the Caribbean and the United States.

Thomas Borwick

Founder & Director of Kanto

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Hana Adrović

Press Secretary of Enough is Enough party

Hana Adrović is the Press Secretary of Enough is Enough party from Serbia that entered Serbian parliament in 2016 as the biggest opposed party at the time. As a prominent media personality in the Balkans, she used to be a TV host and a producer at MTV Adria and Vh1 Adria and a PR consultant in the entertainment industry. Besides being a politician, she manages to have an ongoing career in the media as an Executive Editor at Slobodna Televizija. She also hosts a very popular YouTube show and despite the fact that she doesn’t like to be called like that, she definitely is a social media influencer with over 41K followers on Instagram, 17.5K followers on Twitter and over 10K on Facebook.

Hana Adrović

Press Secretary of Enough is Enough party

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John Furbisher

Founder & Director of Furbisher Media

A seasoned and respected media and communications executive, John has a high-profile track record in journalistic leadership, public relations and campaign strategy.

A confident and energetic publicist, award-winning editor and writer, he has excellent skills of communication, influencing and international reputational development. John has extensive political, public affairs and media contacts in the UK and the European institutions. His knowledge of politics in Westminster and Brussels, combined with his inside understanding of how newsrooms work in London and the regions, is unmatchable.

He knows how journalists, bloggers and editors think. As well editing two daily papers and working as a staff reporter for the Sunday Times, he spent the four years before setting up Furbisher Media running the communications operation for Britain's Conservative MEPs

John Furbisher

Founder & Director of Furbisher Media

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Linus Bylund

MP Swedish Parliament (2014-2018), Communication Strategy Expert

Linus Bylund has been active in the Sweden Democrats on a volunteer basis since 2002 and was recruited by party leader Jimmie Åkesson in the very beginning of the 2010 election campaign, where the party managed to get into the Swedish parliament for the first time. After the election, he served on Jimmie Åkesson's staff as both Press secretary and Chief of staff until the 2014 election.

Linus was elected MP in 2014 and was a member if the Social security and migration comitte of the Swedish parliament during the term 2014-2018.

After the election a year ago, Linus works at the Communications office of the Sweden Democrats, mainly with daily and long-term social media issues, but also with scripts and copywriting for local, national and EU-campaigns.

Linus Bylund

MP Swedish Parliament (2014-2018), Communication Strategy Expert

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Andrianos Giannou

Political Strategist and Communicator

Andrianos Giannou is an independent political strategist, communicator and columnist. His most recent role was as Director of European Affairs of New Europe — a Brussels-based European affairs weekly — where his analysis and opinion writing focused on the 2019 European Parliament elections, transatlantic affairs and strategic aspects of 5G network infrastructure development. He has previously served in various political positions, including as President of the Youth of the European People’s Party. In 2014, Andrianos co-founded the Transatlantic Youth Summit, a forum for the next generation of transatlantic leaders. Andrianos holds a BA in Economics and Politics from the University of Sheffield, a graduate diploma in law from City University London, and has earned an LLM from University College London. He is a member of the Association of European Journalists.

Andrianos Giannou

Political Strategist and Communicator

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Richard Milsom

ACRE Chief Executive

Milsom leads the growth and engagement efforts of the fastest growing European political party, the European Conservatives and Reformists Party. He leads the ECR Party's work in reinforcing its presence across Europe, and beyond. He is a seasoned political consultant and expert with extensive experience in government, public policy and strategic communications. Prior to his political work, he was a successful businessman. He holds a university degree from the university of Cambridge.

Richard Milsom

ACRE Chief Executive

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Themistoklis Asthenidis

ACRE Managing Director

Themistoklis Asthenidis

ACRE Managing Director

Naweed Khan

Executive Director, New Direction Foundation

Naweed Khan is the Executive Director of New Direction (ND) (www.europeanreform.org), a Brussels based free-market think tank and publisher established in 2010 by Margaret Thatcher. With offices in Warsaw, Rome and London, ND is the official foundation of the leading Conservative political movement, the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe. Naweed has previously served as Special Advisor at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Special Advisor at the Cabinet Office under Prime Minister David Cameron. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and Peking University.

Naweed Khan

Executive Director, New Direction Foundation

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