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 Alliance News > Global Alliance Annual Meeting 2005 and 2nd World Public Relations Festival
 
 In its latest teleconference meeting of 13 August 2004, the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management decided to accept the proposal presented by Ferpi (Italian Federation of Public Relations) to organize the 2nd World Public Relations Festival in the Italian city of Trieste for June 28-30 2005, and to hold the annual general meeting in that context.

The theme of the 2nd WPRF, characterised (as was the first) by a parallel presence of panels and best practice presentations from all over the world, will be:

Communicating in diversity,.. with diversity,.. for diversity*

The selection of the city of Trieste - a historical gateway between central, south and eastern Europe - is primarily due to the fact that Festival dates have consciously been positioned right in between the 50th anniversary Ipra professional conference in Istanbul, Turkey (June 25-26-27) on Communication: a sustainable path to trust, and the 12th annual education and research symposium in Bled, Slovenia (July 1-2) on Public relations metrics.

Special travel arrangements will be made available for anyone intending to participate to all or even two of the three events. Relevant information, as soon as available, will be accessible on the www.wprf.org website which, for the moment, has only a brief update on the event, but from the month of October 2004 will be redesigned and ready to inform all visitors of the preparation of the Festival.

We hope you will wish to consider your participation and please keep updated on progress by visiting our website.

* the title of the Festival intentionally refers to that part of the Van Rule/Vercic 2002 Bled Manifesto where a ‘diverse’ interpretation of public relations is introduced, related to the German term of Offentlichkeitsarbeit: ‘working in public , with the public, for the public’ implying that public relations also contributes to the wealth and the growth of the ‘public sphere’.