OPEN DAYS 2015 LOCAL EVENTS COUNTRY LEAFLET SWEDEN

OPEN DAYS 2015 LOCAL EVENTS COUNTRY LEAFLET SWEDEN

INDEX I. Regional Partnerships Official Partners of the OPEN DAYS 2015 Gothenburg 3 Malmö 4 Region Skåne 5 Region Värmland 6 County of Västerbotten 7 Region Västra Götaland 8 2

I. Regional Partnerships Official Partners of the OPEN DAYS 2015 Gothenburg (Cities and Regions for Jobs and Growth) "New generations, businesses and jobs in Europe" Gothenburg 22 October 2015 Modernising Europe Breakfast meeting Organisers: City of Gothenburg and Europe Direct Chair and moderator of the round table discussion: Katrina Folland, coordinator of the Smart City project CELSIUS (tbc) Staff and elected representatives of the City of Gothenburg, Business Region Göteborg, Göteborg Region Association of Local Authorities and member municipalities, Region Västra Götaland, Science Parks and incubators. Swedish MEP Local Event Gothenburg 2015 will be held on the 22 October in the City Library where the Europe Direct Gothenburg Region has its information desk. The City of Gothenburg and Europe Direct will jointly organize the event. It will be a breakfast seminar with a round table discussion about New generations, businesses and jobs in Europe. Main focus will be to put on today s situation in different member states through stories from young people in Gothenburg and abroad in relation to the Europe 2020 strategy and EUprograms. Different stakeholders will be represented at the table: youth, experts and the partnership conducting regional EU funds. Representatives of the city s EU network, local politicians, staff within the city administration. Information will be published on the city of Gothenburg s homepage in due time before and after the seminar: www.goteborg.se 3

Malmö (Cities and Regions for Jobs and Growth) "Malmö - urban development Structural funds" Regions open for business Malmö 12 November 2015 Seminar Organisers: City of Malmö with partners, Region of Skåne, Malmö University, Swedish agency for regional and economic growth, Association of local authorities Ulrika Lagergren, City of Malmö, strategic planning and international affairs City of Malmö; Ulrika Lagergren City of Malmö; Mayor of Malmö Region of Skåne Swedish agency for regional and economic growth Association of Local authorities Malmö University The seminar will address the implementation of ART 7 sustainable urban development in Malmö. It will look at the local sectorial plan and how to combine ERDF and ESF funding within the plan. The challenges within specific sectors and geographical areas It will look at the indicators of evaluation and methodology to develop transfer of experiences. It will address the issues of national policy versus local reality. In particular the participating organizations directly implicated in ERDF work in our region and city as well as beneficiaries from the 33 other local authorities in our region. www.malmo.se 4

Region Skåne (Northern Connections) "(Bio) Methanol as a fuel - raw materials, production, distribution, engine technology and applications" Malmö 11 September 2015 Places and spaces Workshop Organisers: Region Skåne the regional government of Skåne / regional authority Mr Peter Askman, Region Skåne The workshop discussion, led by Mr Peter Askman, will be based on questions like the ones detailed below under the heading Outline. Since the idea behind the workshop is to involve the participants, no formal speakers besides Mr Askman have been designated. The question of environmentally friendly fuels and energy is highly prioritised by Region Skåne: Our region s ambitious objectives on phasing out fossil fuels form a challenge that requires collaboration on all levels and across sectors. A topic of great interest, besides for example Skåne s work on biogas - the focus of a recent regional strategy - is methanol and its potential as fuel for the shipping industry. Environmental benefits could be considerable if a part of the 80,000 ships on our seas convert to methanol, and it would bring other positive effects such as the development of new businesses and jobs. The goal of the workshop is to seek answers to questions like: - What's currently happening, and what is planned, in the field of methanol in Sweden and on an EU-level today? - How could methanol function as an energy carrier and make a significant contribution to the achievement of the 2030/2050 - targets? - How should a system for the entire value chain of methanol be designed in order to maximise costefficiency and output? - Is there an interest for involvement in future projects / consortia in the field? Representatives from the Universities, voluntary and community sector, local authorities, local government, enterprises. 5

Region Värmland (Advanced Co-operation in Regional SME Support) "A taste of the EU 4" Places and spaces Karlstad 4 November 2015 Presentations & workshops. After the first years of implementation of the EU 2020 strategy, halfway to its 2020 horizon Region Värmland will present statistics over Värmland's targets based on the strategy's objectives so far. There will also be workshops focusing on the North Sea Program, The Baltic Sea Program and Interreg Sweden-Norway. Organisers: Region Värmland Ms Catrin Huss, Manager of international relations, Region Värmland Region Värmland s local event will focus on how the region is working on reaching the targets in the EU 2020 strategy. After the first years of implementation of the EU 2020 strategy, halfway to its 2020 horizon Region Värmland will present statistics over Värmland's targets based on the strategy's objectives so far. The event will also include workshops focusing on selected EU-programs and showcase some examples of regional projects and initiatives that are tackling key European challenges, sharing best practice and improving local service delivery. This one-day event will bring the Brussels Open Days back to the region, building on the themes debated in our Brussels event. The event will be aimed at elected local politicians, officers and practitioners from local authorities, the regional development agency, social partners, universities, non-governmental organisations. The content of the event will be designed to engage the audience including people who have little or no previous experience of European work and funding, in order to raise their awareness of the opportunities available. Representatives from local and regional authorities and other stakeholders, including our boarder regions in Norway, interested in regional development and EU-projects. www.regionvarmland.se 6

County Västerbotten (The Innovative Partnership for Sustainable Energy 2020 (IPSE 2020)) "Inauguration of the first CNG/CBG filling station in Härnösand" Modernising Europe Härnösand 7 November 2015 Inaugurational event Organisers: Härnösand Energi & Miljö and BioFuel Region, as partners within the TEN-T BioGaC project Mayor of Härnösand municipality, Fred Nilsson The general public and specially invited politicians, companies and organisations are invited to a festival with speeches, ceremony and refreshments. We will offer the opportunity to test drive and refuel CNG cars. Horse riding, candy rain and balloons to the children. Guided tours around the fuel station is offered throughout the day. The mayor of Härnösand municipality, Mr Fred Nilsson, will give a speech about the importance of a CNG refuelling station in Härnösand and in the rest of northern Sweden and how the EU can strengthen the development of the regions, via the TEN-T funding programme and Europe in my Region/City. The event is conducted in cooperation with the neighbor Highway Hotel and the local car dealers Bilbolaget (Volvo / Renault), Berner (Wolksvagen/Skoda), Dahlbom Bil (Subaru) etcetera. The public in the municipalities of Härnösand, Sundsvall, Timrå and Kramfors Local politicians Companies and organisations with transport need (and possible CNG-buyers) www.biofuelregion.se/ipse2020 7

Region Västra Götaland (Local and Regional cooperation for demographic change) "Social inclusion in West Sweden and in EU" Places and spaces Vänersborg 20-21 August 2015 Conference (presentations, panel debate, seminars and field trips) Organisers: Region Västra Götaland, Region Halland, Region Värmland and the three region s municipalities and representatives from the county administrative board. Maria Dahlin, Mayor of Vänersborg (SE) Katerina Areskoug, Head of the European Commisssion Representation in Sweden Mikael Stigendal, Professor in Sociology, Malmö University Jens Nilsson, Swedish Social Democratic Party, S&D) Member of the European Parliament Carl Schlyter, (Green Party) Member of the Swedish Parliament Robert Hannah, (Liberals People s Party), Member of the Swedish Parliament (TBC) Tomas Riste, Member of the Regional Executive Committee of Region Värmland and Member of Committee of Regions (TBC) Elisabeth Rahmberg, Head of Public Health Committee, Region Västra Götaland Region Västra Götaland s local event will focus on three main goals: 1. Increase awareness in EU-related issues from a local and regional perspective, 2. Create an arena for exchange of experiences in local and regional EU-related work, mainly between public actors in western Sweden, 3. In a larger perspective facilitate the creation of western Swedish collaboration and find synergies across local and regional borders in EU-related work. The first day will focus on important matters on the EU agenda and specifically on social inclusion by presentations, panel debates and field trips. This aims to give the participants an EU perspective and a western Swedish perspective on the important work of social inclusion. The second day will focus on seminars which aim to offer the latest information on the various EU programmes that provide local and regional cooperation opportunities, locally and in a European context. This will focus on social inclusion and includes the structural funds and sector programmes. This two day-conference will be aimed at elected local and regional politicians, officers in west Sweden who have a need or interest in keeping themselves updated on EU-related issues. Elexted local and regional politicians, officers in west Sweden who have a need or interest in keeping themselves updated on EU-related issues. 8