Thursday, 13 February 2020
| 08:30 | Arrival and registration of participants |
| 08:45 | Opening and introduction to the rules of the contest Representative of Academy of European Law, Trier |
FIRST ROUND: ORAL DEFENSE SESSION OF THE WRITTEN REPORT
| 09:00 | Teams briefing before the oral defence of their written reports |
| 09:30 | Defence of teams’ written reports (four parallel sessions) Two or three teams confront with each other’s. Each team is given 20 minutes in order to introduce its written report |
| 10:00 | Questions by teams and jury Each team is given 10 minutes in order to ask 1 to 2 questions to the other team(s), before the jury is invited to ask questions to the different teams. |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 | Answers by teams Teams have 10 minutes each in order to answer to the questions |
| 12:00 | Wrap up session with jury and teams: what went right and wrong? Jury comments on teams pleadings and gives tips and tricks to teams |
| 12:30 | Deliberation of the jury and distribution of case materials for the negotiation exercise |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
SECOND ROUND: NEGOTIATION EXERCISE
| 14:00 | Preparation of negotiation exercise |
| 15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 | Oral negotiation 2 teams confront each other’s. Each team is given 20 minutes in order to give its position, before the negotiation continues in order to reach an agreement |
| 17:30 | Wrap up session with the jury: what went right and wrong? |
| 18:00 | End of first day and jury deliberation |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
Friday, 14 February 2020
| 08:45 | Announcement of the two winning teams for the final round |
THIRD ROUND: MOOT COURT
| 09:00 | Teams Briefing before pleading All the teams receive the case file. The two winning teams prepare their pleading. The other teams prepare one or two questions for the winning teams. |
| 10:00 | Oral pleading by first team |
| 10:30 | Oral pleading by second team |
| 11:00 | Questions by jury and by other teams |
| 11:30 | Response by team Y |
| 11:45 | Response by team X |
| 12:00 | Wrap up session with the jury: what went right and wrong? |
| 12:15 | Deliberation by jury |
| 13:00 | Announcement of winning team and prize award |
| 13:15; | Lunch |
| 14:15 | End of the Contest |
Programme may be subject to amendment.