2004 | Hungarian Initiative Year 2004
In 2004, the Swedish Government will implement a special promotion initiative in Hungary. The aim of the initiative is to develop contacts between Sweden and Hungary prior to Hungary's accession to the EU in May 2004, and to validate positive and friendly relations between the two countries. The initiative will take the form of political dialogue, official co-operation, business-promoting measures, research collaboration, regional co-operation, cultural exchanges, etc.
Besides the Stockholm-Mälar region, Västernorrland, Örebro and Värmland counties and the Swedish Federation of Trade, Swedish Trade Council and Swedish Institute will also take part.
You can read more about this initiative here.
(More information is also availible on website: www.sveduletes.se)
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10 December 2004 | The Stockholm Region Nobel Lunch
By arranging the event the same day as the Nobel Price Ceremony in
Stockholm, Stockholm Region gives a tribute to innovative thinkers and emphasizes the
importance of innovation in regional development.
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22-23 November 2004 | Baltic Sea Region - Perspectives 2010
A group of Brussels representation offices has joined forces with the main Baltic Sea Region organisations to host an event, which will discuss priorities and the perspective 2010 for the Baltic Sea Region.
The target groups for the event are: Politicians (EP, CoR, Local, Regional and National), representatives of the EU institutions, Academics, the Permanent Representations in Brussels, Regional Offices, the Business community, NGO's and International and national press.
To read the first announcment, cklick here (pdf).
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2-5 November 2004 | 2004 Swedish-Polish Co-operation Days
The Swedish government organises an event to further show its commitment and to market the Swedish-Polish co-operation. A major part of the event will consist of a exposition about innovation and enterprising. As part of the event several seminars and conferences will be held. The event will partly be financed by the European Commission through the Town-Twinning programme. The Stockholm region and the Mazowie region in Poland have long experience of fruitful cooperation. A co-operation agreement was signed between the two regions in February 2003. Stockholm and Mazowie also co-operate at EU level, i.e. the current Head of Office of the Mazowie Representation in Brussels was also worked at Stockholm Region Brussels office. For information: thomas.friis.konst@stockholmregion.org.
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1 October 2004 | Stockholm Region 10th Anniversary in Brussels
Ten years has passed since Stockholm Region established its representation in Brussels. Many things have been accomplished, many new friendships have been made during those ten years. Today, in the year 2004, Stockholm Region is an attractive and natural co-operation partner for other European Regions. Close links and relations have been formed with cities across Europe. Stakeholders of Stockholm Region - the City of Stockholm, the Stockholm County Council and the Stockholm County Association of Local Authorities - have through their representation in Brussels joined several European thematic networks.
We would like to celebrate our tenth anniversary and invite you to celebrate with us. Go to:
www.stockholmregion.org/sr10yearsinbrussels/home.htm
to find out more about our organisation, region and the celebration of the 10 year anniversary.
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29 September - 3 October 2004 | Swedish Culture Week in St. Petersburg
On 29 September - 3 October famous Swedish designers, musicians and DJs will come to St. Petersburg to take part in the Swedish Culture Week. The event is arranged by ArtEast Service together with the Swedish Institute and Consulate General of Sweden in St. Petersburg.
The programme of the week includes an exhibition on Swedish industrial design ("Källemo" company), seminars on design and music industry in Sweden, as well as a number of concerts and parties by popular Swedish artists. The event will be also attended by the representatives from the City of Stockholm.
For more information about Swedish Culture Week in St. Petersburg, please, contact Stefan Höglund, ArtEast Service, e-mail: info@atreast.se
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27-30 September 2004 | Open Days 2004
Stockholm Region in partnership with other Capital Cities/Regions has been chosen for the second time to participate in the Open Days event. The Opens Days initiative was launched by the Committee of the Regions as a further step of "bringing the EU closer to the people" and encouraging cities and regions to become more "Europe conscious". The Open Days includes a complete programme of conferences, exhibitions and workshops.
In a rolling programme of activities, designed to highlight the added value of their regions and cities within Europe, each office will open its doors for 3 days to welcome visitors from the European Parliament, regional and local authorities, journalists, representatives from companies and civil society organisations. In addition to presentations of innovative best practice that are unique to each city and region, and more general introductions to the activities of each office, Capital Cities/Regions will place particular focus to the themes of the regional competitiveness and employment.
For more information abpout Open Days go to:
www.cor.eu.int/opendays/opendays/
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17 August 2004 | Meeting on Innovation Competencies and Entrepreneurial Skills Project in St. Petersburg
The meeting of the working group Innovation Competencies and Entrepreneurial Skills within the Baltic Metropolises network was held on 16-17 August at Smolny. Baltic Metropolises is a cooperation network of metropolitan cities in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). The network consists of capital cities, cross-border metropolitan regions, and other metropolitan cities of major importance in the Baltic Sea Area. The members of the network at present are Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Malmö, Helsinki, Berlin, Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius and Warsaw.
The aim of the working group is to increase the competence and efficiency of the knowledge-based innovation system in the metropolitan areas of BSR leading to new business creation, product development, patenting, technology transfer etc. Among the participants of the meeting were Per Olof Berg, President of the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Vladimir Kucherov, Executive Director of the Foreign Affairs Department, Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Lada Illarionova, Head of the Stockholm Region Office in St. Petersburg, Igor Lonsky, Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee on External Affairs and Tourism, Alexander Viktorov, Chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee on Science and Higher Education, as well as representatives of academic circle. The main issues of the meeting were the application for the project financing, as well as project activities for 2004-2005. It was decided that St. Petersburg should prepare a package of suggestions by 6 September and attract the representatives of academic and business circles to the project.
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9 March 2004 | Current prioritations for EU:s programme for public health
The Stockholm Region European Committee (SEU) invites to a seminar about EU:s programme for public health. The purpose is to inform about the priorities for the year 2004, i.e. what activities/projects the commission intend to support under 2004. This call for proposal will most likely be published in the end of February 2004, and then you have two months to send in an application to the commission.
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17 March 2004 | Half-day conference about the new cohesion policy
The 17 of March the Stockholm Region European Committee invites to a half-day conference about the new cohesion policy. The purpose is to inform about the new policies that the commission suggests in the so called third cohesion report and how this will affect local and regional level. Speakers on the conference are Mrs. Ulrica Messing, Cabinet minister with responsibility over regional development and the structure funds, Catharina Tarras-Wahlberg, vice mayor in Stockholm and the chairwoman in the Stockholm Region European Committee, and a representative from the Commission, the directorate for regional policy. The conference will end with a panel discussion. The conference will take place at Folkets hus in Stockholm.
The third cohesion report has been published by the Commission and is available here:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/regional_policy/index_en.htm
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30 April 2004 | Sweden - Hungary Co-operation Day
On the occasion of the official Swedish year in Hungary, the Stockholm Region, in close cooperation with the City of Budapest, the Brussels Capital Region and Central Sweden organised a "Sweden - Hungary co-operation day" at Brussels-Europe Liaison Office.
The event included a exhibition about the Swedish year in Hungary and gave the great possibilities networking with Swedish and Hungarian actors involved in the initiative.
Speeches were given by:
- Jos CHABERT, Vice President, Brussels Capital Region,
- Mats HASSELGREN, Vice Mayor, the Municipality of Täby, the Stockholm Region,
- Elsie NORBERG, County Commissioner Örebro County Council, and
- H.E. Dr. László TRÓCSÁNYI, Ambassador of Hungary to Belgium.
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4 May 2004 | Regions initiate dialogue about the future of the inter regional co-operation
Stockholm Region is together with eight other regions (Berlin, Bryssel, Malopolskie Voivodeship, Principado de Asturias, Region Randstad-South Holland, South West UK and Vienna) calling for a discussion on future of the inter regional co-operation. As a first step, above mentioned regions have issued a joint statement that was presented during conference held on 4 May, 2004.
The conference took place in premises of European Parliament. Speakers from the European Commission as well as Interreg secretariat in Vienna were ivited to speak. Eventually, discussion results and the position paper will be presented at the European forum on third cohession repport, taking place on 10 May 2004 in Brussels.
Download the conference programme here
Download the position paper
Download the presentation of the INTERREG IIIC representative
Download the presentation of Malopolska region
Download the meeting minutes from the conference
See pictures from the seminare here (new window will open)
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8-9 June 2004 | Workshop on Local Action Plans for Social Inclusion
The City of Stockholm together with EUROCITIES organised a workshop on how cities can develop their own Local Action Plans (LAPs) in favour of social inclusion in the context of the National Action Plans (NAPs) for social inclusion which are being implemented in all of the EU Member States in the framework of the Lisbon Strategy, and the so-called "open method of coordination".
The CASE project (Cities Actions Against Social Exclusion) was used as starting point for identifying and exchanging examples of best practise. The aim of this process is to help cities to effectively contribute to tackling poverty and overcoming social exclusion at local level, by learning from existing examples of good practise and developing their own Local Action Plans (LAPs).
The 16 participants from 9 European cities agreed to continue this work through informal working groups looking at the development and identification of soft indicators and benchmarks, the possible development of "knowledge broker centres", and the development of introduction packages enabling a more structured participation in the National Action Plans for social inclusion.
For more information please contact Stig Hanno in Stockholm, e-mail: stig.hanno@sot.stockholm.se
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15 June 2004 | Polen Lunch
On the occasion of the Stockholm Region's activities within the EU Enlargement process and with
Swedish Government supported exhibition "Creativity and Innovation", the Stockholm Region, in close cooperation with the Permanent Representative of Poland to the EU and the Brussels-Capital Region organised a lunch at Hotel Astoria.
Speakers were:
- Conny ANDERSSON, President of the County Council of Stockholm,
- H.E. Marek GRELA, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Poland to the EU,
- Pascal GOERGEN, Representative of the Brussels-Capital Region to the EU, and
- Katarina TARRAS-WAHLBERG, President of the Stockholm Region Board.
