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
Significance of the INTERREG in the Baltic Sea Region from the EU per-
spective – the European Commission – Mr Vicente Rodriguez Saez
INTERREG in the Baltic Sea Region in the EUSBSR context and the priori ties of the Polish CBSS presidency – Ms Joanna Wojtkowska, EUSBSR National Coordinator, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland
11:30-12:00
Presentation of the INTERREG Baltic Programmes
Baltic Sea Region – Ms Susanne Scherrer, Director of the Managing
Authority and the Joint Secretariat
South Baltic – Mr Thorsten Kohlisch, Head of the Joint Secretariat Central Baltic – Ms Merike Niitepõld, Head of Managing Authority
12:00-16:00
Panel discussions
12:00-13:00
Environment, special focus: the significance
of the pan-Baltic cooperationModerator: Mr Philipp Schwartz, Interact
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Transport, special focus: examples of multilateral project
Moderator: Mr Bartłomiej Wierzbicki, INTERREG Baltic Sea Region15:00-16:00
Entrepreneurship and innovation, special focus:
impact on target groupsModerator: 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?
Joint session of the INTERREG Baltic Programmes: South Baltic, Central Baltic, Baltic Sea Region
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 break10:45-14:00
Exploring the spirit of INTERREG in Gdańsk by bike/bus!
Joint outdoor activity of the INTERREG Baltic Programmes: South Baltic and Baltic Sea RegionEn-route lectures by experts on sustainable mobility and risk prevention.
Lunch boxes will be provided for all participants.
14:00-14:30
Coffee break
INTERREG South Baltic Programme’s sessions
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”.
Adam Hamryszczak
Undersecretary of State
Ministry of Economic Development of Poland
Responsible for:
implementation of the following operational programmes: Innovative Economy 2007-2013, Smart Growth 2014-2020, Development of Eastern Poland 2007-2013, Eastern Poland 2014-2020 as well as the European Territorial Cooperation programmes for 2007-2013 and 2014-2020. In his scope of competence there are also programmes of European Neighbour -hood and Partnership Instrument 2007-2013 and European Neighbourhood Instrument 2014-2020. 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 public administration 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 level man -ager, achieving successes in preparation, co-ordination, implementation and monitoring of policies in the fields of cross-border coopera -tion as well as privatisa-tion and capital markets, international relations and investment promo-tion. She has also gained board level experience 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 Union Association. Mr Struk graduated from the Faculty of Tourism and Recreation at Wrocław University and afterwards he completed postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Management and Organization at the University of Gdańsk as well as doctoral studies at the Faculty of Management and Economics at the University of Szczecin. Mr Struk is married and has two daughters. He is keen on sailing - he holds a captain’s license.
Mieczysław Struk Marshal of Pomorskie Voivodeship (Poland)
Vicente Rodriguez Saez
European Commission, DG Regional Policy
Mr Rodrigues Saez holds a position of Deputy Head of the Unit in the Competence Centre for European Territorial Cooperation and Macro-Regional Strate-gies, Transnational and Interregional Unit.
Previously, he worked as a Financial Counsellor at Permanent Representation of Spain, where he was responsible for Regional Policy and as a European Civil servant, dealing with management and control of ERDF programmes in DG Regional Policy.
He likes sports – in particular tennis, swimming and skiing – as well as opera, literature and classical music.
Joanna Wojtkowska
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
European Policy Department, Poland
Ms Wojtkowska has been working for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2000. She has been dealing mostly with the Eu-ropean affairs, mainly bilateral relations. In 2002 she served in the Permanent Rep -resentation of Poland to the EU in Brussels. Since 2010, she has been responsible for the matters related to the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. In 2012 Ms Wojtkowska was appointed the Head of the Northern Europe Unit in the European Policy 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 communica-tion, 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
cultural heritage of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
Thorsten Kohlisch
Interreg South Baltic, Head of the Joint Secretariat Mr Kohlisch’s experience in international cooperation and project management dates back to 2006. 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 of Tartu. Mr Kohlisch likes travelling, jogging and row-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
-ing Authority of the Central Baltic programme for 2007-2013 and 2014-2020. She also acted as a project manager for Interreg projects between 2001-2008, managing co-operation projects between Estonia and Finland in the fields
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
Philipp Schwartz
Interact Programme
He holds a position of the Project Manager within the Interact Programme, with a focus on inter-programme capacity and competence, evaluation and capitali-sation (network of maritime Interreg programmes). From 2001 to 2004 Mr Schwartz was the Head of the Cooperation Office of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for the Eastern Baltic Sea region (Tallinn). In the years 2004-2007 he acted as a Senior Advisor for Cross- border Cooperation and Civil Security, CBSS Secre-tariat (Stockholm). From 2007 to 2013 he was the Head of the Joint Technical Secretariat of the Central Baltic Interreg IV A Programme 2007-2013 (Turku). He is also involved in teaching (i.a. Baltic Sea Region Studies at University of Turku).
He holds the University’s Dr. jur. Title. He is interested in Latvian legal history (in the scope of civil law) and genealogy in the Baltic Sea region.
Mariusz Witoński
President of the Polish Offshore Wind
Energy Society
Mr Witoński has been involved in regional and cross-border cooperation projects in the field of 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 in Poland and the leader of EU and EOG projects. Since 1997 he has been acting as a consultant in the field of renewable energy, environmental impact assessment, spatial planning and project development for renewable energy projects.
Moderator
Panel discussions -
Environment
He is a board member of the Polish Offshore Industry Forum. Mr Witoński was an initiator of the OFFSHORE Academy and the Polish Offshore Grid Working Group. He is interested in civil society, renewable energy, macrobiotics as well as in mountaineering.
South Baltic Programme
Project: South Baltic OFF.E.R - South Baltic Offshore Wind Energy
Regions
Lead partner: Rostock Business and Technology Development mbH Member states represented in the project: DE 2, DK 2, SE 2, LT 2, PL 2 There are 6 main objectives of the South Baltic OFF.E.R project:
• Quicker and more elaborate development of new offshore wind parks; • A cleaner and more secure energy supply for the South Baltic Region; • More and better jobs in the South Baltic Offshore Wind Industry; • Increased competitiveness of the South Baltic Offshore Wind Industry and strengthened position in the European renewable energy market; • Public perception of the South Baltic as one of Europe’s premier renewable energy regions;
• Lasting cross-border relationships strengthening social cohesion
in the region.
South Baltic OFFER establishes a vital network between the partners, businesses and stakeholders and communicates the importance of offshore wind energy (OWE)
for the region to the general public as well as to stakeholders from all levels.
It also fosters the transfer of knowledge within the region as well as from experi
-enced partners from outside the region in order to speed-up the development of OWE and its related industries and overcome existing barriers. Increased cross-border
co-operation between businesses as well as universities and research institutions
significantly increases the region’s competitiveness and innovative capacity, and by fostering education and training within OWE related fields the project also enables
the region to meet the rising demand for skilled workers in the offshore wind industry
(OWI) in the future.
INTERREG Central Baltic Programme
Project:GreenAgri - Environmentally-friendly Management of Organic
Fertilizers in Agriculture
Lead partner: Estonian Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce Member States represented in the project: EE 1, LV 1
Project GreenAgri was launched in September 2015 and will be finalized in August 2019. Therefore, no visible results have been achieved so far. The project is focused on reducing nutrient losses from agriculture in Baltic States by introducing and testing innovative and efficient practices in management of organic fertilizers. 20 pilot farms
from Estonia and Latvia invest in most appropriate technologies and methods using
their own financial resources. Farmers receive well-founded information about the efficiency of particular solutions demonstrating viable results in reducing nutrient losses. The first step of the project will be a survey about available technology and methods appropriate for using in management of organic fertilizers in Baltic States. Partners
engage for the pilot programme 20 pilot farms, making the necessary investments
and implementing measures most appropriate for each farm using their own financial
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 and machines used in organic fertilizers management to broader public. The project envisages reaching ca. 300 farmers during particular events and
activities.
ERDF contribution 730,567.78 EUR; Total budget 859,491.51 EUR
Ann Riisenberg
Head 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 project management. She holds a BA degree in Agricultural 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
Mr Bełdowski has been working for the Polish Academy of Science - Institute of Oceanology since 2000. He is a project leader and a co-chairman of HELCOM MUNI and SUBMERGED groups.
Baltic Sea Region Programme
Project: CHEMSEA - Chemical Munition Search & Assessment
Lead Partner: Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences Member States represented in the project: DE 2, FI 2, LT 1, PL 3, SE 3
Project has performed extensive survey of the munition dumpsite in the Gotland Deep, and assessed the impact of those munitions 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 in Wolgast, on the Baltic shore. Those munitions, together with others collect-ed by allies after the war were discharged to the Baltic. Altogether, some 50 000 tonnes of chemical weapons were sunk in the Baltic.
In the years 2005-2008 integrated project MERCW (Modelling of Ecological Risks Related
to Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons) performed mapping and ecological risk assessment
of official dumpsites in the Bornholm Deep, Gotland Deep and Skagerrak. The CHEMSEA project aimed at filling the gaps in MERCW research (detailed mapping using techniques unavailable in MERCW project. Project results and recommendations were delivered to authorities via HELCOM and directly to maritime administrations and governments of Baltic countries. This resulted in the continuation of studies on dumped munitions – NATO project MODUM, which aims at creating monitoring network for the Dumpsites, and creation of HELCOM group SUBMERGED, which aims at the risk assessment concerning dumped objects on the Baltic Sea Bottom.
ERDF contribution 3,621,910.00 EUR; Total budget 4,586,560.00 EUR
Mr Bełdowski managed projects financed by Polish National Science Centre, Baltic Sea Region Programme, NATO, as well as acted in national and international projects as an investigator. He holds a PhD degree in mercury 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- doctoral position in the Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemuende (Germany). His scientific interests include trace metals chemistry and dumped chemical munitions. He is also interested in Aikido and the Japanese culture as well as science fiction & fantasy literature.
Panel discussions -
Transport
Bartłomiej Wierzbicki
Interreg Baltic Sea Region, Project Officer
at the Managing Authority
/Joint Secretariat
Mr Wierzbicki’s tasks include coordination of the transport priority of the Programme as well as tasks related to advising applicants, and as-sessing and monitoring projects. He holds Mas-ter in Public Administration. He worked with EU projects at the level of enterprises and adminis-trations before taking up his current position. He is interested in motor vehicles and has a passion for remote nature experiences.
Moderator
Ditte Folke Kikkert Henriksen
Danish Maritime Authority
Ms Henriksen is a head of section at the Danish Mari-time Authority (DMA). She has 3 years of experience as a project manager at the Baltic Development Forum. For three years, she cooperated with Priority Area Coordinator at DMA. Privately, she is interested in languages and politics as well cultural diversity.
INTERREG Baltic Sea Region Programme
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
Lead partner (institution): Danish Maritime Authority
Member States represented in the project: DK, FI (PAC’s for PA Safe) DK (PAC for PA
Ship) – all Member States are represented in the international Steering Committees of
both Policy Areas.
Project’s results: increased interaction between projects and relevant policy. Results that PAs have contributed to include e.g.:
• building the infrastructure for LNG in the Baltic Sea Region (PA Ship)
• development of e-navigation services in the Baltic Sea region and beyond (PA Safe) ERDF contribution 199,410 EUR; Total budget 234,000 EUR
Wiktor Szydarowski
Project manager, Region Blekinge (Sweden)
Mr Szydarowski has 20 years of professional experience in growth management processes, which covers draft-ing operational documents for territorial cooperation programmes in the Baltic Sea region as well as strategic documents for pan-Baltic network organizations. Mr Szydarowski was an initiator and a leader of Inter-reg projects on sustainable transport and corridor development. He acts as an evaluator of Interreg project proposals and an adviser in implementation of the EUSBSR as well. He holds PhD in geography and regional planning. Professional passion: multi-level governance processes, corridor development, territorial cohesion, megatrends. Private passion: travels, high altitude hik-ing.
INTERREG Baltic Sea Region Programme
Project: TENTacle - Capitalising on TEN-T core transport network corridors for prosperity, growth and cohesion
Lead partner: Region Blekinge, Sweden
Member States represented in the project: SE 8, NO 2, FI 2, EE 1, LV 1, LT 1, PL 3,
DE 3, DK 2
Project’s results: better stakeholder capacity to reap benefits of the TEN-T core network corridors (CNC) implementation for prosperity, sustainable growth and territorial cohesion in the BSR. In practise, by the end of 2019: all territories can profit from the CNCs. Public
and business stakeholders are able to deliver effective growth and prosperity strategies,
and to work out logistics solutions on top of CNC investments. European Coordinators receive support in mobilising stakeholders to a joint work. Transport authorities and ad
-ministration are aware of and can use the synergies between the CNCs and the EUSBSR in the planning work. Other European macroregions are inspired to capitalise on the CNCs. The project includes 7 pilot cases to demonstrate how to strengthen positive core network
corridor spill-overs by place-based measures in various geographies and development
con-texts. Proposals for functional extension of the core network corridors north - and east -wards. Stakeholder dialogue at the macroregional level to work out win-win solutions
for all BSR territories, irrespective of the distance to the core network corridors, and to strengthen the implementation of the EUSBSR (PA Transport).
INTERREG Baltic Sea Region Programme
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
Inland Waterway and River-Sea Shipping (IWT) still do not play an adequate role in the transport system according to its potential. Too often, IWT is not even considered as a transport alternative by many stakeholders. The question that needs to be answered is how the modal share of IWT can be increased.
The lead partner and its 20 partners from DE 4, FI 3, LT 4, PL 4 and SE 5 work together
for:
• Tackling the challenges and opportunities focusing on IWT.
• Increasing the modal share of IWT to, from and between BSR countries.
• Fostering a better integration of IWT in the BSR transport chains and EU Strategy for the BSR.
The project was launched in March 2016 and will continue until February 2019. During
its lifetime, the implementation of pilot activities, their promotion for wider acceptance
of IWT and information that addresses the specific target groups will be executed within the EMMA project.
Project accounts for a total budget of 4,42 million EUR.
Stefan Breitenbach
Port of Hamburg Marketing (HHM)
Mr Breitenbach was employed as a market research-er for HHM in 2009. In 2012 he graduated as BA in Business Administration. During this time he joined the project development department, dealing with European, regional and local cooperation projects, focusing on (maritime) transport and hinterland logistics. Mr Breitenbach has been heading the project development department, since January 2015, and has experience in setting-up, leading and participating in European cooperation projects in the framework of the INTERREG BSR, INTERREG NSR, Horizon - and TEN-T/CEF Programmes.
Maciej Dziadosz
Chairman of the Board, Goleniów Airport
Ltd. (Poland)
Mr Dziadosz’s experience in international coopera-tion and project management dates back to 2003 and includes the participation in the pre-accession (PHARE) and INTERREG III A projects. He was also involved in the implementation of infrastructural projects covering building and renovation of the airport terminal. He is also experienced in running projects under Regional Operational Programme of Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship and national Opera-tional Programme Infrastructure and Environment. He likes tourism and carrier pigeons.
South Baltic Programme
Project: South Baltic Global Access
Lead partner: Rostock Business and Technology Development GmbH Member States represented in the project: DE 2, SE 3, DK 1, LT 2, PL 1
Scope of action
• regional and cross border marketing strategy, implementation strategy at the airport
policy
• identification of region's advantages, best practice case in EU countries, implications
in strategy
• Public Service Obligations (PSO) - EU practices and applications guide line. PSO imposed in airport. PSO study on regional economic justification • potential new connections based on regional analyses
Panel discussions -
Entrepreneurship and innovation
Aleksandra Rapp,
Interact Programme
Aleksandra works as a Project Manager at Inter-act Programme. She provides support to Interreg, Interreg IPA-CBC (with Member States) programmes as 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-velopment of Poland, first as a Programme Manager 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 in the European Economic-Financial-Legal Relations. She is a cooperation-believer and a passionate traveller.
Torbjörn Jonsson
Fiber Optic Valley
Mr Jonsson holds leading positions in telecom company Ericsson, Delsbo Candle (CEO), and in Bermans (CEO). He has been active as a Management Consultant and, since 2013, as a Business Manager in Fiber Optic Valley.
He is also involved in managing international organisations as well as projects with employees, partners, suppliers and customers mainly from Europe and Asia. Besides international projects and helping SMEs to grow, Mr Jonsson is fond of the wilderness of Swedish forests, hunting with his dog or just being there. He also has a passion for dance!
INTERREG Central Baltic Programme
Project: ICT Meta Cluster - Central Baltic ICT - Export Meta Cluster
Lead partner: Fiber Optic Valley (Sweden)
Member States represented in the project: SE 2, EE 1, LV 1
Project’s results: it is still too early to evaluate the results, after 8 months of projects - the total project duration is 40 months. However we have SME’s utilizing tools from project Tool-Box and sales has been supported in several cases in Middle East as well as in US and South America.
Scope of action: Small and Medium IT-Enterprises will launch sales in new markets outside EU. Sales is achieved by utilizing the total strength of three IT-clusters and one R&D-partner in Central Baltic Region. The scope is to scout for high potentials, evaluate and then fully support selected SME’s with a Tool-Box full of opportunities.
ERDF contribution 1,814,790 EUR; Total budget 2,320,879 EUR
Moderator
Beata Fabisiak
Poznan 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. In this period she was involved in various operations, like StarDust under Baltic Sea Region Programme, the Strategic Project in Trans-national Commercial Activities in Research & Innovation, Clusters and in SME- Networks.
INTERREG Baltic Sea Region Programme
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
Lead Partner: Poznan University of Life Sciences
Member States represented in the project: PL 1, DK 1, LV 1, FI 2, LT 1, EE1, NO 1, DE 2,
SE 1
Project’s results
The project not only actively promotes the awareness and necessity of raising seniors’
comfort and safety level but also indicates to companies the opportunities to enhance
their capacity of innovation and competitiveness. The project will give BSR furniture
companies inspiration and a common identity, it will enhance their knowledge and com-petences, and increase their capability to work in a transnational environment.
Conse-quently the project will enhance their capacity of innovation to create smart products
adapted to senior needs, making the companies more innovative and competitive.
The project will focus on creative working methods 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 and social sciences, the project will transform the social challenge of aging nations into fascinating business opportunities for enterprises in the Baltic Sea Region.
ERDF contribution 2,195,000 EUR; Total budget 2,395,000.00 EUR
She has been linked to and cooperated with the Polish Universities from Wielko-polska region: University of Life Sciences, University of Economics and Business, University of Fine Arts 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.
Baltic Sea Region Programme
Project: StarDust - The strategic project on trans-national commercial activities in research & innovation, clusters and in SME-networks
Lead partner: VINNOVA (Sweden)
Member States represented in the project: DK 2, DE 2, EE 3, FI 4, LT 7, LV 4, NO 1,
PL 3, SE 7
The StarDust project had been designed in order to provide for the answers to questions such as: how to link strong research nodes, clusters and SME networks in the Baltic Sea region in order to jointly reach globally-leading innovation partnerships? How to use the high innovation potential of the region to address common societal challenges? The project’s component “Comfort in living” objective was to develop concepts for multi-functional kitchen that improve quality of life for seniors at home or in homes for elderly. It had been prepared as a response to a challenge which is the ageing population
in 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
responding to the needs of elderly people. The project partners worked jointly with the design and creation solutions in a modern housing, offices and public areas. The idea was to bring solutions to the Baltic Sea Region market as well as the global market, as
the population of elderly people is growing around the world.
Project’s results
More than 850 SME and MNEs have been engaged in the project’s activities e.g. in
match-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-erly developed by the companies, students and researchers within “Comfort in Living”,
or new personalised mobile guides for the tourism branch, which were developed by
students and companies within other project’s components. The consortia realized in
total 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, a state of art workshop was also prepared: the Innovation Camp! During the
one-week event were new concepts of sustainable and multifunctional kitchens for the +65
segment developed by 34 design students, 18 companies, 7 Lectures and 7 journalists
from 7 countries.
The BaltSe@nior project is a successor of the StarDust “Comfort in living” component. ERDF contribution 4,933,980.00 EUR; Total budget 6,549,220.00 EUR
Andrius Sutnikas
Communication manager at
Klaipe-da Science and Technology Park
Mr Sutnikas has been involved in the international project management for 10 years. His experience covers implemen-tation of 15 projects out of which 3 were coordinated by him. He studied political sciences.Marius Arkušauskas
Director at Western Baltic Engineering
He is experienced in international project develop-ment, in the area of the ship design and shipbuilding.South Baltic Programme
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
Member States represented in the project: LT 3, PL 1, DE 2, SE 1, DK 1
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 ventures and 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-ments in the shipbuilding and the bunkering sectors. The main Focus of the project was
to transform environmental challenges into business opportunities facilitating innovation,
business partnerships and growth for the regions’ maritime industries.
Project’s activity: building LNG competencies and capacities for regions industry, implementing training program to build a critical mass for LNG business model development, creating business partnerships to enable LNG based technology and busi -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)Baltic Sea Region Programme
Project: Baltic Sea Labour Network - A European Model for Improve-ment
of Interregional Labour Policy
Lead partner: Ministry of Science and Research of the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg
22 partners from 8 countries: DK 1, EE 1, DE 3, SE 4, FI 3, PL 2, LT 4, LV 2 “BSLN” is the flagship project Baltic Sea Labour Network improving the management and harmonisation of the common labour market issues Project’s results
The BSLN has established a high-profile, political presence with its transna-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 has agreed and published five statements which were integrated into a final political statement at the end of the project. The SC continues its work until the 2nd round table of the Baltic Sea Labour Forum (BSLF) in October 2012. BSLF was established in November 2011.
The most important achievement was the creation of the permanent tri-partite Forum, the BSLF, thus ensuring the sustainability of the project by widening its participation. The forum commenced its work in January 2012 during the German Presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS). This Forum has continued after the lifetime of the the EU-part financed project and gather members and experts together at its annual round table. ERDF contribution 2,002,010.00 EUR; Total budget: 2,569,130.00 EUR
South Baltic Programme
Project: abc.multimodal - Access by Cycling - Integrating cycling into multimodal transport system and mobility culture
Lead partner: Hanseatic City of Rostock 5 partners from 3 countries: DE 2, SE 1, PL 2 Project’s results
Five partners in the South Baltic Region were cooperating for more than 3 years starting in 2011 in the abc.multimodal project until end of 2014 aiming to integrate cycling into multimodal transport systems and mobility cultures starting in the participating cities of Gdansk (PL), Kalmar (SE) and Rostock (DE). Especially in Gdansk the impact of the project went beyond the partners’ expectations. It can be seen as result from successful study trips to Copenhagen (DK)/ Malmö (SE), and Freiburg (DE)/ Basel (CH) where decision 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 experts from Poland visiting Gdansk as leading city for cycling promotion. In terms of cross-border exchange and cross-border cooperation the partners can proudly list three main achievements. These are for once the strengthened and deepened understanding, cooperation and knowhow exchange between cities in the project, some of which have a long history of twin cities. Secondly cycling has become a more important part of multimodal transport policy in all participating countries. In addition to that, decision makers in all participating countries have become more aware of the importance of transnational exchange in the above work field. After the finalisation of the project the partners assume that abc.multimodal has set new and important impulses in all partner cities contributing to a better awareness of a multi-modal urban transport system and particularly cycling promotion.
