Ludvig.einarsson@hassleholm.se Marcin uchowski , APCEB - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

South Baltic Public Innovators Network Interreg South Baltic 2nd call 2016

• Ludvig Einarsson, Project Manager

Ludvig.einarsson@hassleholm.se Marcin Żuchowski, APCEB zuchowski@eurobalt.org.pl

EU-office Skåne Nordost

Skåne Nordost’s resources for regional and international cooperation

• EU- office Skåne Nordost
• Europe Direct Hässleholm
• Europaforum Hässleholm
• EU-coordinators in municipalities

Skåne Nordost established mid 90’s A municipal cooperation commitee Not a legal person Staff in Kristianstad and Hässleholm

Skåne Nordost

Four strategic areas of cooperation:

• Business and entrepreneurship
• Labour market and skills development
• Urban planning and infrastructure
• Growth engine Kristianstad + Hässleholm

Support: EU-office Skåne nordost and Krinova innovation arena

EU-office Skåne Nordost

• A common resource for 9 municipalities,

about 225 000 invånare.

• Four employees: Maria Lindblad, Tommy

Bengtsson, Sara Wanther and Ludvig Einarsson (50 % Europe Direct Hässleholm)

• The office has a coordinating function

– Network of EU-coordinators – Coordination of projects – Support to strategic areas of cooperation in Skåne Nordost – Skills development etcetera

Association of Polish Communes Euroregion Baltic

Association of Polish Communes of Euroregion Baltic

• ul. Stary Rynek 25

82-300 Elbląg Tel: +48 55 611 20 00 Fax: +48 55 611 20 01 Email: sekel@eurobalt.org.pl www.eurobalt.org.pl

Association of Polish Communes Euroregion Baltic

APCEB

• Established in 1997
• Legal personality
• Associations of one or several regional or local authorities
• Non-profit cross-border Polish organisation
• Involving citizens, politicians, institutions
• Representative of 41 municipalities from Pomerania and

Warmia-Mazury regions

• Part of international cooperation of ERB secretariats
• Hosting International Permanent Secretariat

Association of Polish Communes Euroregion Baltic

APCEB aim: build competencies and broaden the capacity

• f

local governments, in the area of international cooperation. Acting as a hub for project-driven cross-border cooperation, and international relations Support: Innternational Permanent Secretariat of ERB Structure:

• Standard for NGO’s according to polish law.
• The authorities of the Association are: The General Assembly
• f Delegates; Board of The Association;Revision Committee;

Association of Polish Communes Euroregion Baltic

WE ARE PROJECT DRIVEN ORGANIZATION

WE ACTED AS THE MANAGING AUTHORITY: Projects Fund under the PHARE programme FMGTM As a Grant Operator of the Block Grant for Non-governmental Organisations and Polish-Swiss Regional Partnership Projects (as partner in consortium) AS PARTNER WE TOOK PART IN PROJECTS: Seagull Capacity Building Tourage CASYPOT SB PIN CTCC AS THE LEAD PARTNER WE IMPLEMENTED PROJECTS: Seagull II CULART I and II LYC SB

SBPIN - About

• Increase the capacity of local actors in

international cooperation

• Provide training by participating in a number
• f international workshops focusing on blue /

green growth and age-friendly (inclusive) cities.

• Content will be connected to the practice,

when specialists work their EU-coordinators together in a common international process.

SBPIN - Partners

LP: EU-kontor Skåne Nordost, Sverige PP1: Köge kommune, Danmark PP2: Association of Polish Communes of Euroregion Baltic, Poland PP3: Krinova Incubator & Science Park, Sverige PP4: Naestved kommune, Danmark AP1: Skåne Association of Local Authorities, Sverige AP2: Region Skåne / Culture Skåne, Sverige

SBPIN - About

• The activities are centered around three main

themes: 1. blue growth (SE), 2. green growth (DK) and 3. Inclusive and Innovative cities (PL).

• The workshops (2) will be organized focusing
• n each theme. Total ca. 30 participants / 7-8

representatives per country. Partners are responsible for the one theme each.

Some thoughts

• Level of responsibility differ from country to

country

• Plan meeting depending on flight times and

reporting dates

• Meet often and use e-meeting tools
• Reporting takes time!

Workshop 1 Blue Growth

• April 18-20th, Krinova, Kristianstad

Workshop 1 Blue Growth

• April 18-20th, Krinova, Kristianstad

Workshop 1 Blue Growth

• April 18-20th, Krinova, Kristianstad
• We had several objectives of the workshop:
• Initiate and stimulate cross-border discussions
• Define challenges based in the pre-noon presentations and

inspirational talks of each participating community.

• Re-work the challenges
• Discuss, define and frame potential solutions into topics
• Suggest further actions to be taken within the SBPIN towards

valueable solutions.

Workshop 1 Common challenges

• Pollution / Miljöförstöring
• Fresh water / Sötvatten
• Flooding / Översvämningar och dess följdeffekter

Workshop 1 Solutions

• Technical solutions
• Governance at different political and social levels
• Water beneficial alliances
• Transforming from regulation to incentives
• Cross-sectoral approach
• Cross-border approach
• Target the “source” – education
• Several suggestions on further actions/projects

Workshop 1 Green Growth

• September 26-28th, Köge, Denmark.
• Three specific themes:
• Waste to resource – challenges and possibilities related to a

circular economy

• Strategic energy planning - how to use renewable energy in the

production of heat and electricity

• Sustainable urban planning - new ways of planning urban areas

Association of Polish Communes Euroregion Baltic

APCEB SB PIN RESPONSIBILITY Two workshops in Poland in 2018 First workshop in April Themes:

• 1. Innovative local governments and inclusive cities
• civil society, NGO activities and forms of support
• Can a local government be creative? - education of self-governments
• innovation and creativity in self-governments;
• Longlife learning - quality human resources (human capital)
• 2. Age Friendly City
• urban development planning taking into account the interests of all population groups -

including seniors.

• Social inclusion
• 3. Nothing about us without us
• young people and activating young people in local actionss;
• Use youth potential in local development
• Uneployment/enployment issues