Strong-specific and Promising – a follow-up on the 2020 vision for NSPA

Erik Gløersen

NSPA-Forum, October 25th, 2013

The NSPA visioning process

NSPA as a product of Europe

Focus on imagining a futureWhat could be achieved

if the framework conditions are appropriate?What can the NSPA do for Europe?

Specify policy message: not ”support for lagging region”, but ”investment in Europe’s future”

Strong, Specific and Promising

Meeting-point between EU-wide challenges and ”regional issues”

The NSPA visioning process

DEMOGRAPHY CLIMATECHANGE

GLOBALI-SATION

ENERGY

European challenges

EDUCA-TION

INNOVA-TION

ECONOMICCHANGE

QUALITYOF LIFE

CONNEC-TIVITY

Regional issues

NSPAstrategy

Taking full advantage of resources

Three «pillars» to be brought into coherence

Growth and development

«Towards a vision for the NSPA»

Demographic stabilisation as the core objective

Opposing perspectives on the viability of local communities: do the communities need to change/disappearor are the framework conditions the problem?

Evolution since 2009

Continuednegativenet-migrationin large parts of the NSPA

Main points of the vision

Demographic trends under control

More balanced communities, open to foreign influences

Enhanced interaction and cooperation with Russia

Improved urban qualities

More robust and productive local economies

Coordinated actions to promote sustainable tourism

World level R&D activities within selected niches

Coherent regional transportation systems

Policy road map: priorities

Fully exploiting NSPA resources

Pro-active policies to promote more balanced and dynamic local communities

Economic policies: focus on knowledge economy and creative sectors

Transport: focus on bottlenecks for exports, intra-regional coherence and dependence on fossil energy

Branding

Key issues for the next steps

From vision to actions: how to target policies?

How can a better multi-level dialogue be initiated?

What difference can the NSPA make?

What EU-instruments can be mobilised?

Nexus model

Evolution since 2009

Concrete effects ofclimatechange

Evolution since 2009

Arctic issuesmore prominent