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830 – 1000 Registration

1000 – 1100 Session 1: Welcome
Moderator: Christin Skiera
 

- Roger Ryberg, Chairman of BSSSC

- Stefan Ludwig, Brandenburg Minister of Justice, for European Affairs and Consumer Protection

- Sibylle Katharina Sorg, Director for Relations with European Union Member States, Cross-Border and Regional Cooperation, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin.

- Helmut Scholz, Member of the European Parliament

- Peter Schenk, DG Regional and Urban Policy, European Commission

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1100 coffee break

1130 – 1300 Session 2: Cohesion - a concept for togetherness?
Key Note Speeches:

• Markku Markkula, Vice-President, Committee of the Regions.

 

Panel debate:

• Ingrid Schulerud, Deputy head of the Norwegian Delegation to EU in Brussels

• Anne Quart, Brandenburg State Secretary of Justice, for European Affairs and Consumer Protection

• Bernd Hemingway, Deputy Director of the CBSS secretariat

• Markku Markkula, Vice-President Committee of the Regions

 

1300 - 1430 Lunch with project presentations.

 

1430 – 1630 Session 3: Parallel thematic workshops

 

1. European Cultural Heritage Year

Moderator: Stefan Musiolik, Ministry of Justice, Europe, Consumer Protection and Equality of Land Schleswig-Holstein / EUSBSR PA Culture.

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14:00   Getting in the mood for the topic

           Presentation of BSR Culture

 

14:15   Opening statements

 

           From a cultural perspective
           Larry Okey Ugwu, Director Baltic Sea Cultural Centre Gdansk

 

            From the perspective of the youth    
            Martin Rümmelein, BSSSC Youth

                       

14:45  Panel debate including the audience
           
            Ingrid Galadriel Aune Nilsen, Project Manager Hands on History, Norway

            Magdalena Fryze, European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk
            Martin Rümmelein, BSSSC Youth
            Vaida Venckuté-Nagé, Youth program curator European Capital of Culture Kaunas        2022

           

15:45   Wrapping up

            Conclusions

 

2. Moving towards smart specialisation 2.0 – maximising Baltic Region innovation potential  

Moderator: Krista Taipale, Head of International Affairs, Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council

This workshop discusses smart specialisation (S3) as a future oriented, innovation based regional development tool in the Baltic Sea region.  It focuses on regional innovation ecosystems, showcases EU-funded smart specialisation projects, and provides information about available EU-funding for joint projects in the Baltic Sea Region. It also contributes to the debate about the future of EU´s cohesion policy and the role of smart specialisation after 2020. 

 

1. Keynotes:

   • Regional Innovation ecosystems and smart specialization, Markku Markkula, Vice-president, Committee of the Regions

   • Implementing EU´s Baltic Sea Strategy by smart specialization, Niklas Forsling, EUSBRS Policy Area Coordinator Innovation, Nordic Council of Ministers

   • Smart Specialisation – Experiences from Helsinki-Uusimaa region, Ossi Savolainen, Regional Mayor

   • Interreg Baltic Sea programme, fostering smart specialization

   • GoSmart BSR, Wiesław Urban, Professor, Bialystok University of Technology

   • Smart Blue Regions, Carsten Beyer, Managing  director, Submariner Network

 

1. Panel discussion by the speakers.

 

3. Northern Dimension and Transport

Moderator, Rune Bakkevoll, Chief advisor, Akershus County Council

 

1. Keynotes:

   • “Cross-border transport cooperation for growth and development”, Oddgeir Danielsen, Director Northern dimension partnership on transport and logistics (MDPTL))

   • “European Cohesion and togetherness, the only way towards a fossil free future in the transport sector”, Ms. Valentine William, project and policy officer, Hydrogen and fuel cells and Electro-mobility in European Regions (HYER)

   • “Scandria®Alliance and Clean Fuel Deployment - connecting Baltic Sea regions”, Dr. Ulrike Assig, Lead Partner Scandria®2Act, Joint Spatial Planning Department Berlin-Brandenburg and Mr. Lars Salvesen, Vice Mayor Akershus County Council

 

1. Panel debate with keynote speakers  - moderated by Oddgeir Danielsen, Director Northern dimension partnership on transport and logistics (MDPTL)

   • «Cross border cooperation on transport in shifting times”

 

4. Baltic 2030 Action Plan: Localizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 

Moderator (Krista Kampus, Head of Baltic 2030 unit in CBSS)

1. Keynote speech: Anne-Cerise Nilsson, Ministry of environment of Sweden.

 

Krista Kampus, Head of Baltic 2030 unit in CBSS. Introduce an overview on SDGs and Baltic 2030 Action plan, and what that means for the Baltic Sea Region and for macro-regional cooperation.

 

1. Thematic contributions:

• Thematic expert intervention. Birgitta Englin, Senior Adviser, Global Utmaning.

• Thematic expert intervention. Elena Belova, Leontief Centre for Social and Economic Research, St. Petersburg

• Sub-regional perspective. Håkon Noren, Oppland County, Norway.

• Youth perspective - representatives from the youth network/view from the youth conference. Concrete measures and experiences - How much are they involved? What is working and not working?

  1. Moderated discussion

• Summing up and recommendations to the Baltic 2030 Action Plan work.

 

1630 - 1700 coffee break

 

1700 – 1815 Session 4: Wrap up and way forward

- Reports from workshops and Youth Conference.

Looking towards 2030: Next Steps for the Baltic Sea Region

Keynote speech:  -Ulf Savbäck, Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth

 

1830 Entertainment

Hornist Quartett, Potsdam Music School

 

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1900 Dinner

 

 

2200 End of day 1