VASAB Conference “Competitiveness of Small & Medium-Sized Cities in the Baltic Sea Region”
Riga, Latvia
VASAB Conference “Competitiveness of Small & Medium-Sized Cities in the Baltic Sea Region”
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VASAB Conference “Competitiveness of Small & Medium-Sized Cities in the Baltic Sea Region” took place on 4 June 2019 in Riga, Latvia.
Cities are economic drivers and social hubs, attempting to ensure good services and livable spaces for their citizens and attracting new inhabitants, businesses and other recourses. Demographic challenges, shrinking and urbanization of development areas – these are the main characteristics that small and medium-sized cities in the BSR are facing today. Their development and specialization strategies are crucial to adapt the global and local challenges and to capitalize their resources and assets to strengthen their attractiveness and competitiveness. Moreover, cities and towns have significant role and potential for balanced territorial development.
The Conference looked on the cities and towns from the perspective of their role, challenges, potentials and good practices to strengthen and contribute to the competitiveness of the Baltic Sea Region and thus providing substantial input to the joint competitiveness of Europe. It discussed the opportunities and faced challenges of small and medium-sized cities and towns, their future prospects beyond 2020 in order to achieve greater coherence within the Baltic Sea Region and hence in the wider Europe.
The Conference was targeted to the politicians, policy advisers, experts, practitioners and other relevant audience engaged in fostering sustainable development of cities.
The Conference was organized by the Latvian VASAB chairmanship. VASAB (“Vision and Strategies around the Baltic Sea”) is intergovernmental multilateral co-operation of 10 countries of the Baltic Sea Region in spatial planning and development.
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Conference timetable
Registration & welcome coffee
Opening and welcome address
Part I: Setting scene
Coffee break
Part II: Good practice in the BSR Cities & Towns
Part III: Good practice in the BSR Cities & Towns
Coffee break
Part IV: Wrap-up discussion
Closing & lunch
Bookings are closed for this event.
VASAB Conference “Competitiveness of Small & Medium-Sized Cities in the Baltic Sea Region”
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Conference Agenda
DownloadPresentation "VASAB - vision and strategies around the Baltic Sea" by Gunārs Ansiņš
DownloadPresentation "Europe in global perspective: trends and priorities" by Pawel Swieboda
DownloadPresentation "Promoting competitiveness of small and medium sized cities in the context of the future European territorial development perspective" by Ilona Raugze
DownloadPresentation "Challenges and opportunities for the BSR in global perspective" by Janne Antikainen
DownloadPresentation "European Cluster Policy" by Dr Anna Sobczak
DownloadPresentation "Local Connectedness Matters: Tribe Tampere story" by Alexandra Santos
DownloadPresentation "Be a part of the transformation of an entire community" by Josefine Wahlstrom
DownloadPresentation "The People's Meeting - a political festival" by Gugga Zakariasdottir
DownloadPresentation "Kaunas - constantly becoming contemporary" by Andrius Veršinskas
DownloadPresentation "Co-creation of sustainable Tartu" by Raimond Tamm
DownloadPresentation "Great marketing for a small city" by Laura Skrodele
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