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Conference INTERREG changes the Baltic Sea Region.

Stories that inspire

23 MAY 2016

9:00-10:30 Registration

10:30-11:30 Introductory speeches

Welcome address – Ms Anita Ryng, Director of Territorial Cooperation Department, the Ministry of Economic Development of Poland

Welcome address – Mr Adam Hamryszczak, Undersecretary of State, the Ministry of Economic Development of Poland

Welcome address – Mr Mieczysław Struk, Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship

SignificanceoftheINTERREGintheBalticSeaRegionfromtheEUper- spective – the European Commission – Mr Vicente Rodriguez Saez INTERREGintheBalticSeaRegionintheEUSBSRcontextandthepriori tiesofthePolishCBSSpresidency–Ms Joanna Wojtkowska,EUSBSR NationalCoordinator,theMinistryofForeignAffairsofPoland 11:30-12:00 Presentation of the INTERREG Baltic Programmes

BalticSeaRegion–Ms Susanne Scherrer, Director of the Managing AuthorityandtheJointSecretariat SouthBaltic–Mr Thorsten Kohlisch,HeadoftheJointSecretariat CentralBaltic–Ms Merike Niitepõld,HeadofManagingAuthority

12:00-16:00 Panel discussions

12:00-13:00 Environment, specialfocus:thesignificance ofthepan-Balticcooperation Moderator: Mr Philipp Schwartz,Interact

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Transport, specialfocus:examplesofmultilateralproject Moderator: Mr Bartłomiej Wierzbicki,INTERREGBalticSea Region

15:00-16:00 Entrepreneurship and innovation, special focus: impact on target groups Moderator: Ms Aleksandra Rapp,Interact

16:00-18:00 Networking coffee - thematic hot spots This part is designed to offer an opportunity to exchange experiences and new project ideas.

24 MAY 2016

8:00-8:30 Registration

8:30-10:30 How to develop a good INTERREG project? JointsessionoftheINTERREGBalticProgrammes:SouthBaltic, CentralBaltic,BalticSeaRegion This is a plenary cross-programme session involving South Baltic, Central Baltic and Baltic Sea Region. This session is designed to give participants strategic advice as to how to develop a good and sustainable INTERREG project.

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-14:00 Exploring the spirit of INTERREG in Gdańsk by bike/bus! JointoutdooractivityoftheINTERREGBalticProgrammes: SouthBalticandBalticSeaRegion En-route lectures by experts on sustainable mobility and risk prevention.

Lunch boxes will be provided for all participants.

14:00-14:30 Coffee break

INTERREGSouthBalticProgramme’ssessions 14:30-15:30 South Baltic intervention logic This session is designed to make the Programme intervention logic comprehensible for potential applicants.

15:30-17:00 South Baltic round table “Building skills to cooperate across borders”

This session is designed to serve all stakeholders (small actors and proxies) who are interested in building up local capacities to cooperate across borders within the Priority Axis 5 – Increas ing cooperation capacity of local actors. Project ideas can be jointly discussed.

“Among many policy frameworks and instruments supporting the development of the Baltic Sea area, Interreg programmes deserve special attention. In certain thematic fields - such as transport, innovation, environment, to name but a few – international cooperation is the only reasonable way to deal with the challenges that cannot be properly addressed at local, regional or national levels. Here, Interreg comes in handy, supporting international partnerships and joint solutions beyond national borders.

The conference entitled INTERREG changes the Baltic Sea Region has been designed to demonstrate that this approach does work and helps unlock developmental capacities of the Baltic Sea states. During the event, Interreg beneficiaries will be sharing the results of international projects and I am convinced that stories told by them will be both interesting and encouraging - also for the participants from areas located many kilometres away from the seashore”.

AdamHamryszczak Undersecretary of State

Ministry of Economic Development of Poland

Responsible for:implementation of the following operational programmes: InnovativeEconomy2007-2013,Smart Growth 2014-2020, Development ofEastern Poland 2007-2013, Eastern Poland 2014-2020 as well as the European Territorial Cooperation programmes for 2007-2013 and 2014-2020.InhisscopeofcompetencetherearealsoprogrammesofEuropeanNeighbour-hood and Partnership Instrument 2007-2013andEuropeanNeighbourhoodInstrument2014-2020. He also supervises the development, im-plementation and monitoring of cross-regional strategies, with special regard to the strategic intervention in Eastern Poland.

Anita Ryng Director of the Territorial Cooperation Department, Ministry of Economic Development of Poland

Ms Ryng has 20 years of experience in publicadministration and economic diplomacy. She has worked for Ministry of Treasury, Ministry of Regional Development, and Polish Embassy in the Netherlands. Ms Ryng is a senior levelman-ager, achieving successes in preparation, co-ordination, implementation and monitoring of policies in the fields of cross-border coopera-tion as well as privatisation and capital markets, international relations and investment promo-tion. Shehasalsogainedboard levelexperience in companies with State shareholding.

Since 2014, for the second time, Mr Struk has been in charge of the regional authorities of the Pomorskie Voivodeship. He is also a member of the Com-mittee of the Regions and the President of the Voivodeship in the European UnionAssociation.MrStrukgraduatedfromtheFacultyofTourismandRecreationatWrocławUniversityandafterwardshecompletedpostgraduatestudiesattheFacultyofManagementandOrganizationattheUniversityofGdańskaswellasdoctoralstudiesattheFacultyofManagementandEconomicsattheUniversityof Szczecin. Mr Struk ismarried and has two daughters. He is keen on sailing -heholdsacaptain’slicense.

Mieczysław Struk Marshal of Pomorskie Voivodeship (Poland)

Vicente Rodriguez SaezEuropean Commission, DG Regional Policy

MrRodrigues Saez holds a position of DeputyHead of the Unit in the Competence Centre for European Territorial Cooperation and Macro-Regional Strate-gies,TransnationalandInterregionalUnit.Previously, he worked as a Financial Counsellor atPermanent Representation of Spain, where he was responsible for Regional Policy and as a European Civil servant, dealing with management and control ofERDFprogrammesinDGRegionalPolicy.He likes sports – in particular tennis, swimming and skiing – as well as opera, literature and classical music.

Joanna WojtkowskaMinistry of Foreign Affairs, European Policy Department, Poland

Ms Wojtkowska has been working for thePolishMinistryofForeignAffairssince2000.She has been dealing mostly with the Eu-ropean affairs, mainly bilateral relations. In 2002 she served in the Permanent Rep-resentationofPolandtotheEUinBrussels.Since 2010, she has been responsible for the matters related to the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. In 2012Ms Wojtkowska was appointed the Head oftheNorthernEuropeUnitintheEuropeanPolicy Department, acting simultaneously as Poland’s EUSBSR National Coordina-tor. She is a graduate of Warsaw University (international relations, applied linguistics). She likes reading, mountain trekking, skiing.

Presentation of the INTERREG Baltic Programmes

Susanne ScherrerInterreg Baltic Sea Region, Director of the Managing Authority/Joint Secretariat

Susanne’s tasks include the overall coordina-tion of work flow, external communication, and managing staff resources at the MA/JS. Susanne holds a M.Sc. in Political Science and Finno-Ugric Philology. She has a long-stand-ing work experience as to EU cooperation programmes in the Baltic Sea Region and Central European countries. She loves classical music and, as a descendant of the Mendelssohn family, she is engaged in preserving the culturalheritageofFelixandFannyMendelssohn Bartholdy.

Thorsten KohlischInterreg South Baltic, Head of the Joint Secretariat

MrKohlisch’sexperienceininternationalcooperation andprojectmanagementdatesback to2006. Since 2013 he has been working in Gdańsk as the Head of the Joint (Technical) Secretariat of the South Baltic Programme 2007-2013 and 2014-2020. His background covers BA in Public Administration at Berlin University of Applied Sciences for Ad-ministration and Law, MA in Political Science at the University of Potsdam and the University ofTartu.MrKohlischlikestravelling,joggingandrow-ing.

Merike Niitepõld Interreg Central Baltic, Head of the Managing Authority, the Regional Council of Southwest Finland

Ms Niitepõld works in the Joint Secretariat and Manag-ingAuthority of the Central Baltic programme for 2007-2013and2014-2020.Shealsoactedasaprojectmanagerfor Interreg projects between 2001-2008, managing co- operationprojectsbetweenEstoniaandFinlandinthefields of sustainable development and environmental education. She is keen on learning to understand the world and make it a better place through discussions, travels and voluntary work.Sheenjoyscultureinallitsforms.

Philipp Schwartz Interact Programme

HeholdsapositionoftheProjectManagerwithintheInteractProgramme,withafocusoninter-programmecapacity and competence, evaluation and capitali-sation (network of maritime Interreg programmes).From2001to2004MrSchwartzwastheHeadoftheCooperation Office of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern forthe Eastern Baltic Sea region (Tallinn). In the years2004-2007 he acted as a Senior Advisor for Cross- border Cooperation and Civil Security, CBSS Secre-tariat (Stockholm). From 2007 to 2013 he was theHeadoftheJointTechnicalSecretariatoftheCentral Baltic Interreg IV A Programme 2007-2013 (Turku). Heisalsoinvolvedinteaching(i.a.BalticSeaRegion Studies at University of Turku).HeholdstheUniversity’sDr.jur.Title.Heisinterestedin Latvian legal history (in the scope of civil law) and genealogyintheBalticSearegion.

Mariusz WitońskiPresident of the Polish Offshore Wind Energy Society

Mr Witoński has been involved in regional andcross-border cooperation projects in the fieldof environmental education, know-how transfer, business networking, maritime planning for over 20 years. He is the initiator and first national coordinator of the Blue Flag Programme inPolandandtheleaderofEUandEOGprojects.Since 1997 he has been acting as a consultant inthefieldofrenewableenergy,environmentalimpactassessment,spatialplanningandprojectdevelopmentforrenewableenergyprojects.

Moderator

Panel discussions - Environment

HeisaboardmemberofthePolishOffshoreIndustryForum.MrWitońskiwasaninitiatoroftheOFFSHOREAcademyandthePolishOffshoreGridWorkingGroup.He is interested in civil society, renewable energy, macrobiotics as well as in mountaineering.

SouthBalticProgramme

Project: South Baltic OFF.E.R - South Baltic Offshore Wind Energy Regions

Leadpartner:RostockBusinessandTechnologyDevelopmentmbHMemberstatesrepresentedintheproject:DE2,DK2,SE2,LT2,PL2

Thereare6mainobjectivesoftheSouthBalticOFF.E.Rproject: •Quickerandmoreelaboratedevelopmentofnewoffshorewindparks; •AcleanerandmoresecureenergysupplyfortheSouthBalticRegion; •MoreandbetterjobsintheSouthBalticOffshoreWindIndustry; •IncreasedcompetitivenessoftheSouthBalticOffshoreWindIndustry andstrengthenedpositionintheEuropeanrenewableenergymarket; •PublicperceptionoftheSouthBalticasoneofEurope’spremier renewableenergyregions; •Lastingcross-borderrelationshipsstrengtheningsocialcohesion in the region.

South Baltic OFFER establishes a vital network between the partners, businessesandstakeholdersandcommunicatestheimportanceofoffshorewindenergy(OWE)for the region to the general public as well as to stakeholders from all levels. Italsofostersthetransferofknowledgewithintheregionaswellasfromexperi-encedpartnersfromoutsidetheregioninordertospeed-upthedevelopmentofOWEanditsrelatedindustriesandovercomeexistingbarriers.Increasedcross-borderco- operation between businesses as well as universities and research institutions significantlyincreasestheregion’scompetitivenessandinnovativecapacity,andby fosteringeducationandtrainingwithinOWErelatedfieldstheprojectalsoenablesthe region to meet the rising demand for skilled workers in the offshore wind industry (OWI)inthefuture.

ERDFcontribution1,585,543,04EUR;Totalbudget2,002,571.04EUR

INTERREGCentralBalticProgramme

Project: GreenAgri - Environmentally-friendly Management of Organic Fertilizers in Agriculture

Leadpartner:EstonianChamberofAgricultureandCommerceMemberStatesrepresentedintheproject:EE1,LV1

Project GreenAgri was launched in September 2015 and will be finalized in August2019.Therefore,novisibleresultshavebeenachievedsofar.Theprojectisfocusedon reducing nutrient losses from agriculture in Baltic States by introducing and testing innovativeandefficientpracticesinmanagementoforganicfertilizers.20pilotfarmsfrom Estonia and Latvia invest in most appropriate technologies and methods using their own financial resources. Farmers receive well-founded information about the efficiencyofparticularsolutionsdemonstratingviableresultsinreducingnutrientlosses.

Thefirststepoftheprojectwillbeasurveyaboutavailabletechnologyandmethods appropriate for using in management of organic fertilizers in Baltic States. Partnersengage for the pilot programme 20 pilot farms, making the necessary investments and implementingmeasuresmostappropriateforeachfarmusingtheirownfinancial resources. Data about nutrient losses will be gathered from pilot areas and recorded during the monitoring period. Demonstration days will be arranged for presentation of modern technology andmachines used in organic fertilizersmanagement to broaderpublic. The project envisages reaching ca. 300 farmers during particular events andactivities.

ERDFcontribution730,567.78EUR;Totalbudget859,491.51EUR

Ann RiisenbergHead of environment department,Estonian Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce

Since 2015 she has been the head of the environ-mental department in the Estonian Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce. Moreover, since 2002 Ms Riisenberg has been a board member in NGO Central Union of Estonian Farmers. She is expe-rienced in international cooperation and projectmanagement.SheholdsaBAdegree inAgricultural Production and Marketing (2002) as well as an MA degree in Economics and Entrepreneurship (2012). She is keen on gardening, roller-skating and reading.

Jacek Bełdowski Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Science

MrBełdowskihasbeenworking for thePolishAcademyofScience- InstituteofOceanologysince 2000. He is a project leader and a co-chairman of HELCOM MUNI and SUBMERGEDgroups.

BalticSeaRegionProgramme

Project: CHEMSEA - Chemical Munition Search & Assessment

LeadPartner:InstituteofOceanologyPolishAcademyofSciencesMemberStatesrepresentedintheproject:DE2,FI2,LT1,PL3,SE3

ProjecthasperformedextensivesurveyofthemunitiondumpsiteintheGotlandDeep,and assessed the impact of thosemunitions on the Baltic environment. The leakage of warfare agents’ degradation products into sediments was confirmed, along the existence of scattered munitions on the sea bottom outside official dumpsites. Chemical munitions, though mass-produced during World War II, were never used in battle. Vast storehouses of German Chemical Warfare Agents (CWA) were locat-ed inWolgast, on the Baltic shore. Thosemunitions, together with others collected byalliesafterthewarweredischargedtotheBaltic.Altogether,some50000tonnesofchemicalweaponsweresunkintheBaltic.

Intheyears2005-2008integratedprojectMERCW(ModellingofEcologicalRisksRelatedto Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons) performed mapping and ecological risk assessment ofofficialdumpsitesintheBornholmDeep,GotlandDeepandSkagerrak.TheCHEMSEAprojectaimedatfillingthegapsinMERCWresearch(detailedmappingusingtechniquesunavailableinMERCWproject.Projectresultsandrecommendationsweredeliveredtoauthorities viaHELCOManddirectly tomaritimeadministrations and governments ofBaltic countries. This resulted in the continuation of studies on dumpedmunitions –NATOprojectMODUM,whichaimsatcreatingmonitoringnetworkfortheDumpsites,andcreationofHELCOMgroupSUBMERGED,whichaimsattheriskassessmentconcerningdumpedobjectsontheBalticSeaBottom.

ERDFcontribution3,621,910.00EUR;Totalbudget4,586,560.00EUR

Mr Bełdowski managed projects financed by Polish National Science Centre, BalticSeaRegionProgramme,NATO,aswellasactedinnationalandinternationalprojects as an investigator.He holds a PhD degree inmercury biogeochemistry in sediments (the University of Gdańsk). He also studied metals in Baltic and European Arctic as well as dumped chemical munitions in the Baltic Sea. His studies on climate change and carbon cycle resulted in a 2-year post- doctoralpositionintheInstituteforBalticSeaResearchinWarnemuende(Germany). His scientific interests include trace metals chemistry and dumped chemical munitions. He is also interested inAikido and the Japanese culture as well as sciencefiction&fantasyliterature.

Panel discussions - Transport

Bartłomiej Wierzbicki Interreg Baltic Sea Region, Project Officer at the Managing Authority /Joint Secretariat

Mr Wierzbicki’s tasks include coordination ofthe transport priority of the Programme as well as tasks related to advising applicants, and as-sessing andmonitoring projects. He holdsMas-terinPublicAdministration.HeworkedwithEUprojectsatthelevelofenterprisesandadminis-trations before taking up his current position. He is interested in motor vehicles and has a passion forremotenatureexperiences.

Moderator

Ditte Folke Kikkert Henriksen Danish Maritime Authority

Ms Henriksen is a head of section at the Danish Mari-timeAuthority(DMA).Shehas3yearsofexperienceas a project manager at the Baltic Development Forum.Forthreeyears,shecooperatedwithPriorityAreaCoordinatoratDMA.Privately,sheisinterestedin languages and politics as well cultural diversity.

INTERREGBalticSeaRegionProgramme

Project: Policy Area on Clean Shipping (PA Ship) and Policy Area on Mari-time Safety and Security (PA Safe) in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

Leadpartner(institution):DanishMaritimeAuthorityMemberStatesrepresentedintheproject:DK,FI(PAC’sforPASafe)DK(PACforPAShip) – all Member States are represented in the international Steering Committees of bothPolicyAreas.

Project’sresults:increasedinteractionbetweenprojectsandrelevantpolicy.ResultsthatPAshavecontributedtoincludee.g.:•buildingtheinfrastructureforLNGintheBalticSeaRegion(PAShip) •developmentofe-navigationservicesintheBalticSearegionandbeyond(PASafe)

ERDFcontribution199,410EUR;Totalbudget234,000EUR

Wiktor SzydarowskiProject manager, Region Blekinge (Sweden)

MrSzydarowskihas20yearsofprofessionalexperience in growth management processes, which covers draft-ing operational documents for territorial cooperation programmesintheBalticSearegionaswellasstrategic documentsforpan-Balticnetworkorganizations.Mr Szydarowskiwas an initiator anda leader of Inter-reg projects on sustainable transport and corridor development.HeactsasanevaluatorofInterregproject proposals and an adviser in implementation of the EUSBSRaswell.HeholdsPhDingeographyandregionalplanning. Professional passion: multi-level governance processes, corridor development, territorial cohesion, megatrends. Private passion: travels, high altitude hik-ing.


Project: TENTacle - Capitalising on TEN-T core transport network corridors for prosperity, growth and cohesion

Leadpartner:RegionBlekinge,SwedenMember States represented in the project: SE 8, NO 2, FI 2, EE 1, LV 1, LT 1, PL 3, DE 3, DK 2

Project’sresults:betterstakeholdercapacitytoreapbenefitsoftheTEN-Tcorenetworkcorridors(CNC)implementationforprosperity,sustainablegrowthandterritorialcohesionintheBSR.Inpractise,bytheendof2019:allterritoriescanprofitfromtheCNCs.Publicand business stakeholders are able to deliver effective growth and prosperity strategies, and towork out logistics solutions on top of CNC investments. EuropeanCoordinatorsreceivesupportinmobilisingstakeholderstoajointwork.Transportauthoritiesandad-ministrationareawareofandcanusethesynergiesbetweentheCNCsandtheEUSBSRintheplanningwork.OtherEuropeanmacroregionsareinspiredtocapitaliseontheCNCs.Theprojectincludes7pilotcasestodemonstratehowtostrengthenpositivecorenetworkcorridor spill-overs by place-based measures in various geographies and development con-texts.Proposalsforfunctionalextensionofthecorenetworkcorridorsnorth-andeast-wards. Stakeholder dialogue at the macroregional level to work out win-win solutions forallBSRterritories,irrespectiveofthedistancetothecorenetworkcorridors,andtostrengthentheimplementationoftheEUSBSR(PATransport).

ERDFcontribution2,849,193.45EUR;Totalbudget:3,750,821EUR


Project: EMMA - Enhancing freight Mobility and logistics in the BSR by strengthening inland waterway and river sea transport and proMoting new internAtional shipping services.

Lead partner: Port of Hamburg Marketing

InlandWaterwayandRiver-SeaShipping(IWT)stilldonotplayanadequateroleinthetransportsystemaccordingtoitspotential.Toooften,IWTisnotevenconsideredasatransportalternativebymanystakeholders.ThequestionthatneedstobeansweredishowthemodalshareofIWTcanbeincreased.

Theleadpartnerandits20partnersfromDE4,FI3,LT4,PL4andSE5worktogetherfor:

•TacklingthechallengesandopportunitiesfocusingonIWT.•IncreasingthemodalshareofIWTto,fromandbetweenBSRcountries.•FosteringabetterintegrationofIWTintheBSRtransportchainsandEUStrategyfortheBSR.

TheprojectwaslaunchedinMarch2016andwillcontinueuntilFebruary2019.Duringits lifetime, the implementation of pilot activities, their promotion for wider acceptance ofIWTandinformationthataddressesthespecifictargetgroupswillbeexecutedwithintheEMMAproject.

Projectaccountsforatotalbudgetof4,42millionEUR.

Stefan BreitenbachPort of Hamburg Marketing (HHM)

MrBreitenbachwasemployedasamarketresearch-er for HHM in 2009. In 2012 he graduated as BA inBusinessAdministration.Duringthistimehejoinedthe project development department, dealingwithEuropean, regional and local cooperation projects,focusing on (maritime) transport and hinterland logistics. Mr Breitenbach has been heading theproject development department, since January2015,andhasexperienceinsetting-up,leadingandparticipating in European cooperation projects intheframeworkoftheINTERREGBSR,INTERREGNSR, Horizon-andTEN-T/CEFProgrammes.

Maciej DziadoszChairman of the Board, Goleniów Airport Ltd. (Poland)

MrDziadosz’sexperience in international coopera-tion and projectmanagement dates back to 2003and includes the participation in the pre-accession (PHARE) and INTERREG IIIA projects. Hewas alsoinvolved in the implementation of infrastructural projects covering building and renovation of theairportterminal.HeisalsoexperiencedinrunningprojectsunderRegionalOperationalProgrammeofZachodniopomorskieVoivodshipandnationalOpera-tional Programme Infrastructure and Environment.He likes tourism and carrier pigeons.

SouthBalticProgramme Project: South Baltic Global Access

Leadpartner:RostockBusinessandTechnologyDevelopmentGmbHMemberStatesrepresentedintheproject:DE2,SE3,DK1,LT2,PL1

Scope of action•regionalandcrossbordermarketingstrategy,implementationstrategyattheairport policy•identificationofregion'sadvantages,bestpracticecaseinEUcountries,implications in strategy•PublicServiceObligations(PSO)-EUpracticesandapplicationsguideline. PSOimposedinairport.PSOstudyonregionaleconomicjustification•potentialnewconnectionsbasedonregionalanalyses


Panel discussions - Entrepreneurship and innovation

Aleksandra Rapp, Interact Programme

Aleksandra works as a Project Manager at Inter-act Programme. She provides support to Interreg, InterregIPA-CBC(withMemberStates)programmesas well as in the scope of macro-regional strate-gies and European groupings of territorial coopera-tion. Previously she worked in the Ministry of De-velopmentofPoland,firstasaProgrammeManager of the South Baltic Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013 and, next, as a member of the team responsible for negotiations of the EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 legislative package. Aleksandra has a Master’s degree in International Relations and finished her postgraduate studies inthe European Economic-Financial-Legal Relations.She is a cooperation-believer and a passionate traveller.

Torbjörn JonssonFiber Optic Valley

Mr Jonsson holds leading positions in telecom company Ericsson, Delsbo Candle(CEO),andinBermans(CEO).HehasbeenactiveasaManagementConsultantand,since2013,asaBusinessManagerinFiberOpticValley.Heisalsoinvolvedinmanaginginternationalorganisationsaswellasprojectswithemployees,partners,suppliersandcustomersmainlyfromEuropeandAsia.Besides international projects and helping SMEs to grow, Mr Jonsson is fondof the wilderness of Swedish forests, hunting with his dog or just being there. He also has a passion for dance!

INTERREGCentralBalticProgramme

Project: ICT Meta Cluster - Central Baltic ICT - Export Meta Cluster

Leadpartner:FiberOpticValley(Sweden)MemberStatesrepresentedintheproject:SE2,EE1,LV1

Project’sresults:itisstilltooearlytoevaluatetheresults,after8monthsofprojects -thetotalprojectdurationis40months.HoweverwehaveSME’sutilizingtoolsfromprojectTool-BoxandsaleshasbeensupportedinseveralcasesinMiddleEastaswell asinUSandSouthAmerica.

Scopeofaction:SmallandMediumIT-EnterpriseswilllaunchsalesinnewmarketsoutsideEU.SalesisachievedbyutilizingthetotalstrengthofthreeIT-clustersandoneR&D-partnerinCentralBalticRegion.Thescopeistoscoutforhighpotentials,evaluateandthenfullysupportselectedSME’swithaTool-Boxfullofopportunities.

ERDFcontribution1,814,790EUR;Totalbudget2,320,879EUR

Moderator

Beata FabisiakPoznan University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Wood Technology, Department of Furniture Design (Poland)

Ms Fabisiak’s experience in international coopera-tion and project management dates back to 2007. Inthisperiodshewasinvolvedinvariousoperations,likeStarDustunderBalticSeaRegionProgramme,theStrategicProjectinTrans-nationalCommercialActivitiesinResearch&Innovation,ClustersandinSME-Networks.


Project: BaltSe@nioR - Innovative solutions to support enterprises in the Baltic Sea Region in product development aimed at raising comfort and safety of seniors home living

LeadPartner:PoznanUniversityofLifeSciencesMemberStatesrepresentedintheproject:PL1,DK1,LV1,FI2,LT1,EE1,NO1,DE2,SE 1

Project’sresultsTheprojectnotonlyactivelypromotestheawarenessandnecessityofraisingseniors’comfort and safety level but also indicates to companies the opportunities to enhance their capacityof innovationandcompetitiveness.Theprojectwill giveBSR furniturecompanies inspiration and a common identity, it will enhance their knowledge and com-petences, and increase their capability to work in a transnational environment. Conse-quentlytheprojectwillenhancetheircapacityofinnovationtocreatesmartproductsadapted to senior needs, making the companies more innovative and competitive.

The projectwill focus on creativeworkingmethods for product design and develop-ments in furniture safety, reliability, specific needs and preferences of seniors and the problems they face while using furniture. With broad competencies of leading BSR actors in the field of furniture, design, technology, ICT and robotics, economy andsocialsciences,theprojectwilltransformthesocialchallengeofagingnationsintofascinatingbusinessopportunitiesforenterprisesintheBalticSeaRegion.

ERDFcontribution2,195,000EUR;Totalbudget2,395,000.00EUR

She has been linked to and cooperated with the Polish Universities from Wielko-polskaregion:UniversityofLifeSciences,UniversityofEconomicsandBusiness, University of FineArts as well as Portuguese Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa in Lisbon. She holds a PhD degree in furniture production processes. She is interested in design, photography and travelling.


Project: StarDust - The strategic project on trans-national commercial activities in research & innovation, clusters and in SME-networks

Leadpartner:VINNOVA(Sweden)MemberStatesrepresented intheproject:DK2,DE2,EE3,FI4,LT7,LV4,NO1, PL 3, SE 7

TheStarDustprojecthadbeendesignedinordertoprovidefortheanswerstoquestionssuchas:howtolinkstrongresearchnodes,clustersandSMEnetworksintheBalticSearegioninordertojointlyreachglobally-leadinginnovationpartnerships?Howtousethehighinnovationpotentialoftheregiontoaddresscommonsocietalchallenges?The project’s component “Comfort in living” objectivewas to develop concepts formulti-functionalkitchenthatimprovequalityoflifeforseniorsathomeorinhomesforelderly.Ithadbeenpreparedasaresponsetoachallengewhichistheageingpopulationin Europe, that would like to like to work and live longer in their homes, stay mobile and independent from elderly care centres. The consortia of cluster organisations and research milieus provided different competences regarding design and housing concepts respondingtotheneedsofelderlypeople.Theprojectpartnersworkedjointlywiththedesignandcreationsolutionsinamodernhousing,officesandpublicareas.TheideawastobringsolutionstotheBalticSeaRegionmarketaswellastheglobalmarket,asthe population of elderly people is growing around the world.

Project’sresultsMorethan850SMEandMNEshavebeenengagedintheproject’sactivitiese.g.inmatch-making events or user-driven innovation camps. Those contributed to the development of 35 new product concepts and prototypes, e.g. new furniture prototypes for eld-erlydevelopedbythecompanies,studentsandresearcherswithin“ComfortinLiving”,or new personalised mobile guides for the tourism branch, which were developed by studentsandcompanieswithinotherproject’scomponents.Theconsortiarealizedintotal 11.1 MEUR add-on investment.Within the “Comfort in living” component several international workshops were performed to engage both the academic sector and companies. To boost new innova-tions,astateofartworkshopwasalsoprepared:theInnovationCamp!Duringtheone-week event were new concepts of sustainable and multifunctional kitchens for the +65 segmentdevelopedby34designstudents,18companies,7Lecturesand7journalistsfrom 7 countries.

TheBaltSe@niorprojectisasuccessoroftheStarDust“Comfortinliving”component.


Andrius SutnikasCommunication manager at Klaipe-da Science and Technology Park

Mr Sutnikas has been involved in the internationalprojectmanagement for10years. His experience covers implemen-tationof15projectsoutofwhich3werecoordinated by him. He studied political sciences.

Marius ArkušauskasDirector at Western Baltic Engineering

Heisexperiencedininternationalprojectdevelop-ment, in the area of the ship design and shipbuilding.


Project: MarTech LNG - Marine Competence, Technology and Knowledge Transfer for LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) in the South Baltic Sea Region

Lead partner: Klaipeda Science and Technology Park MemberStatesrepresentedintheproject:LT3,PL1,DE2,SE1,DK1

Project’s results: the project MarTech LNG developed cross-border supply chains which successfully operationalise the regional economic potential of the emerging Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) industry. The project leveraged cross-border joint venturesand business investments worth 46 M EUR. The economic repercussions are expected to continue to grow in the years to come. MarTech LNG is widely recognised by regional stakeholders to have been the crucial spark that unleashed a number of invest-mentsintheshipbuildingandthebunkeringsectors.ThemainFocusoftheprojectwasto transform environmental challenges into business opportunities facilitating innovation, businesspartnershipsandgrowthfortheregions’maritimeindustries.

Project’s activity: building LNG competencies and capacities for regions industry, implementing training program to build a critical mass for LNG business model development,creatingbusinesspartnershipstoenableLNGbasedtechnologyandbusi-ness models in the region.


Projects to be presented on 24 MAY 2016

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Exploring the spirit of INTERREG in Gdańsk by bike/bus! Joint outdoor activity of the INTERREG Baltic Programmes: South Baltic and Baltic Sea Region (10:45-14:00)


Project: Baltic Sea Labour Network - A European Model for Improve-ment of Interregional Labour Policy

Leadpartner:MinistryofScienceandResearchoftheFreeHanseatic City of Hamburg22partnersfrom8countries:DK1,EE1,DE3,SE4,FI3,PL2,LT4,LV2

“BSLN”istheflagshipprojectBalticSeaLabourNetworkimprovingthe management and harmonisation of the common labour market issues

Project’sresultsTheBSLNhasestablishedahigh-profile,politicalpresencewithitstransna-tional Steering Committee, a strategic and political decision-making body consisting of 8 representatives and 8 deputies from all social partners to influence and shape the BS labour market policies. The Committee hasagreed and published five statementswhichwere integrated into a final political statementat theendof theproject.TheSCcontinues itsworkuntilthe2ndroundtableoftheBalticSeaLabourForum(BSLF)inOctober2012.BSLFwasestablishedinNovember2011.

The most important achievement was the creation of the permanent tri-partiteForum,theBSLF,thusensuringthesustainabilityoftheprojectbywideningitsparticipation.TheforumcommenceditsworkinJanuary2012duringtheGermanPresidencyoftheCounciloftheBalticSeaStates(CBSS).This Forumhas continued after the lifetime of the the EU-part financedprojectandgathermembersandexpertstogetheratitsannualroundtable.

ERDFcontribution2,002,010.00EUR;Totalbudget:2,569,130.00EUR


Project: abc.multimodal - Access by Cycling - Integrating cycling into multimodal transport system and mobility culture

Lead partner: Hanseatic City of Rostock5 partners from 3 countries: DE 2, SE 1, PL 2

Project’sresultsFivepartners in the SouthBalticRegionwere cooperating formore than3 years starting in 2011 in the abc.multimodal project until endof 2014aiming to integrate cycling into multimodal transport systems and mobility culturesstartingintheparticipatingcitiesofGdansk(PL),Kalmar(SE)andRostock(DE).EspeciallyinGdansktheimpactoftheprojectwentbeyondthepartners’expectations. ItcanbeseenasresultfromsuccessfulstudytripstoCopenhagen(DK)/Malmö(SE),andFreiburg(DE)/Basel(CH)wheredecision makers from the participating cities were inspired by these best practices to further support cycling and multimodality in their cities.

These results are very tangible for the inhabitants but also for expertsfromPolandvisitingGdanskasleadingcityforcyclingpromotion.Intermsof cross-border exchange and cross-border cooperation the partners canproudly list three main achievements. These are for once the strengthened anddeepenedunderstanding,cooperationandknowhowexchangebetweencities in the project, some of which have a long history of twin cities. Secondly cycling has become a more important part of multimodal transport policyinallparticipatingcountries.Inadditiontothat,decisionmakersinall participating countries have become more aware of the importance of transnationalexchangeintheaboveworkfield.Afterthefinalisationoftheprojectthepartnersassumethatabc.multimodalhassetnewandimportantimpulses in all partner cities contributing to a better awareness of a multi-modal urban transport system and particularly cycling promotion.

ERDFcontribution972,695.19EUR;Totalbudget:1,179,641.40EUR

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