The Conference, organised in the framework of the European Year for Development, is devoted to the international development cooperation, and in particular to its possible changes after 2015.
The Millennium Declaration adopted in 2000, being a form of an international community’s commitment regarding the development cooperation and global partnership between developed and developing countries, is a unique example of international cooperation. The year 2015 — deadline for reaching the Millennium Development Goals — stimulated the discussion to assess past effects of development cooperation, its evolution since the early 2000s, and to define new principles underpinning development cooperation from now on.
This is also the right time to start a debate on the current state and prospects of the development policy of the European Union – the largest donor, as well as countries such as Poland which, despite a number of their own economic challenges, are increasingly active speakers in the international debate on development cooperation.