Programme
There will be interpretation to/from English,German, French, Spanish and Polish.
Sunday 19th of July
| 12:00 - 18:00 | Tourist program in Östersund - see separate program |
Monday 20th of July
| 09:00 - 11:00 | Registration at Folkets Hus Moderator: Mr Tomas Kåberger, Director General, Swedish Energy Agency | |
| 11:00- 12:15 | Welcome addresses; Ms. Britt Bohlin, Governor of Jämtland, Mr. Jens Nilsson , Mayor of Östersund, | |
| EU Commission Mr Pawel Samecki, Commissioner for Regional Policy, via video. | ||
| A Regional Perspective Mr. Alfredo Boné, Minister, Regional Government of Aragon, Spain | ||
| 12:15 - 13:30 | LUNCH / EXHIBITION | |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Key note session
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| 15:30 - 16:45 | Programmes, products and services - Presentations by participating enterprises and organisations
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| 16.45 -17:30 | COFFEE / EXHIBITION Including exhibition/Partnersearch/ | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Plenary Session
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| 20:00 | Official Reception at the Town Hall and Dinner at hotel Gamla Teatern, Hosted by the City of Östersund | |
Tuesday 21st of July
| 09:00- 09:30 | Draft position document - to be communicated to the Informal Ministerial Meetings, in Åre 23rd - 24th of July | |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | From Idea to Commercialisation best practise from private and public sectors. Contributions from:
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| 11:00- 11:20 | COFFEE / EXHIBITION | |
| 11:20- 12:30 | Panel discussion; How regional public authorities can support
SME:s to commercialise the good ideas and thereby boosting regional development. Participants:
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH /EXHIBITION | |
| 14:00- 15:00 | Plenary Session
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | The view of the Swedish Government, State Secretary Mr. Jöran Hägglund, Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications, Sweden. | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Summary and Conclusions, Mr Bo Källstrand, Governor of Västernorrland
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| 17:00 | Closure of exhibition | |
| 18:30 | Post Conference Garden Party at the Governer's Residence | |
Wednesday 22nd of July
Study Tour including technical visits in Jämtland and in Västernorrland respectively - see separate programmes.
Exhibition 20th - 21st July
The conference includes an exhibition where enterprises from all parts of the EU will have a possibility to display their products or services with relevance for the theme of the conference, i.e. renewable energy, clean tech and regional development.
The exhibition takes place at the same venue as the conference.
Invitations to exhibit are handled by Mid Sweden Chamber of Commerce.
Contact: lars.ling@midchamber.se phone +46 70 2994041
Presentation of speakers
| Britt Bohlin |
Governor, County of Jämtland.
Jens Nilsson
Mayor of the city of Östersund. Member of the Committee of Regions
Mr. Pawel Samecki
Member of the European Commission.
Alfredo Boné
Minister Aragon, Spain
Andreas Gyllenhammar
Andreas Gyllenhammar holds a PhD in Environmental Analysis from Uppsala University . Andreas works regionally, nationally and internationally with education, assessment and strategic issues related to sustainability for Sweco AB. He is often contracted to lecture about climate change effects within a regional context.
Siegfreid Heise
Director General, Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment, Germany
Ms. Soo-Jin KIM
Ms. Soo-Jin KIM works as an Economist/Policy Analyst in the OECD Regional Competitiveness and Governance Division. She is currently in charge of conducting a series of studies on national government policies for regional development, and she has co-ordinated the recent OECD Ministerial meeting on regional policy.
Göran Carstedt
Göran Carstedt is chairman of The NaturalStep International and has been senior director, Clinton Climate Initiative. He is also engaged in the formation of the SOL Global Network. SOL- The Society for Organizational Learning. Read more
Fabio Leone
Fabio Leone joined the Eco-Innovation Unit of the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation of the European Commission (EACI) in January 2009 as project officer. He holds a doctorate in environmental economics. Before coming to the EACI Fabio worked as senior consultant for the Technopolis Group, coordinating the activities related to ERAWATCH Network (European web-based service that presents information on national and regional research policies, players, organisations and programmes).
Berit Gullbransson
Berit Gullbransson, Former Director of Environmental Affairs at SCA Tissue Europe, was appointed by the Swedish Government in 2006 as Director General at SWENTEC - Swedish Environmental Technology Council. Read more >>
Michel Lamblin
Michel Lamblin is the Director of the INTERREG IVC Programme, running the Secretariat and its links with its Managing, Audit and Certifying Authorities and Member States. As Programme Director, he represents INTERREG IVC in discussions at regional, national and European levels.
Ph. D. Begoña Urien
General Director of Enterprise in the Department of Innovation, Enterprise and Employment of the Government of Navarre. Main areas are: enterprise's development, infrastructures (energy and telecommunication), commerce, innovation and ICT's. Read more. Read more.
Ms. Annukka Havas
Ms. Annukka Havas works as a development manager of Lahti Science and Business Park (LahtiSBP). She is in charge of Centre of Expertise Programme of Lahti Region and has 12 years experience of different research an development projects expecially in cleantech related matters. LahtiSBP is developing the Lahti Region into a world-class centre for environmental business and research.
Steve Turner
Steve Turner is Head of Carbon Economy at Manchester's Commission for the New Economy. In this role he leads climate change work across the Manchester city region. Read more >>
Hilary Karlson
Baltic Sea Solutions
Eva Fridman
Bio Fuel Region
Tord Fjellström
E-focus
Kristina Persson
Having founded a private foundation "Freja" (with the objective to promote democracy in a globalized world, sustainable development and equal rights and opportunities between men and women), Kristina Persson is currently the Working President of Global Challenge - an organisation and network with the aim to promote knowledge and dialogue on globalisation. Read more >>
Marek WOŹNIAK
He was born on March 5, 1960. He is a graduate of the Faculty of History at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He also completed a course of postgraduate studies in Local Government at the Faculty of Law as well as in Local Policy and Management at the Faculty of Sociology both at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Read more >>
Robert Uitto
County Council Commissioner Jämtland
Britt-Marie Torstensson
President WINNET Europe
Jöran Hägglund
State Secretary, Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communication.
Fields of responsability are Enterprise, Competiveness, Needs-driven research, Regional Growth and Tourism.
| Bo Källstrand |
Governor, County of Västernorrland.
Tomas Kåberger
Tomas Kåberger holds a PhD in Physical Resource Theory from Chalmers University of Technology and is an adjunct professor at the International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University. Besides research he is served in leading positions of energy companies as well as on boards of environmental organisations, industrial federations in the energy area and government committees. He is now Director General of the Swedish Energy Agency.
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