Transcript Presentation of the BRC

Kainuu Chairmanship in Barents Regional
Council and the Regional Committee
Mr. Pentti Malinen
Region Mayor of Kainuu
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Territory and Population of Kainuu
Total population: approx. 75 000 people
The surface area of the Kainuu Region, 2400 sq.
equals the area of Belgium.
The population density is on average 4,0 inh. per
square kilometre
and Population of Barents Area
ulation: approx. 5.2 million people
ce area of the Barents Region, 1 755 800 sq. km, equals the
area of France, Spain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
ation density
is on average 2,9
inhabitants per square
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The Barents Programme 2014-2018
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Representatives from Kainuu
JWGC Helena Aaltonen (co-chair)
[email protected]
JWGT Tuomo Tahvanainen
[email protected]
JWGER – Mikko Keränen
[email protected]
JWGHS - to be nominated
RWGTL Hannu Heikkinen (chair)
[email protected]
RWGIEC Paavo Keränen
[email protected]
RWGE – Jouni Ponnikas
[email protected]
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Karelia CBC Programme Area
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Kolarctic CBC Programme Area
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Thematic objectives of
Karelia CBC
1. Business and SME development
2. Promotion of local culture and
preservation of historical
heritage
3. Environmental protection,
climate change adaptation
4. Promotion of border
management, and border
security
The promotion of local cross-border
people-to-people actions will be included
to all the priorities special focus being on
young people. Also innovations,
research and education are considered
as enabling cross-cutting themes.
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Thematic objectives of
Kolarctic CBC
1. Business and SME development
2. Environmental protection, climate
change mitigation and adaptation
3. Improvement of accessibility to the
regions, development of sustainable
and climate-proof transport and
communication networks and
systems
4. Promotion of border management
and border security, mobility and
migration management.
Promotion of local cross-border people to people
actions and support to education, research,
technological development and innovation are
considered as horizontal modalities.
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Chairmanship Priorities of Kainuu Region 2015 - 2017
The brochure of the Chairmanship
Priorities of Kainuu Region is
available in three languages.
The electronic versions may be found
at:
http://www.beac.st/en/Barents-RegionalCouncil/Chair-Region
www.linkedin.com/company/regionalcouncil-of-kainuu
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Chairmanship Priorities of Kainuu Region
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Strengthening and Streamlining Regional Cooperation
Promoting Economic Co-operation
Co-operation on Transport and Logistics
Good Practices and co-operation in the Social and
Welfare sector
5. Environment and Climate Change
6. Education, Research and Culture
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1. Strengthening and Streamlining Regional
Cooperation
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Improving functional interaction with the partnerships and EU organizations
related to Northern Dimension.
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Enhancing interaction with the regional EU offices (esp. NSPA) in Brussels.
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Promoting the networking, project planning and utilization of the
opportunities offered by the funding programmes will be improved by
developing co-operation between the programmes and improving the flow of
information to the regional committee, with the aim to prepare co-financed
projects.
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Reinforcing the visibility and recognition of Barents cooperation through local
and national media as well as the social media (Communication Plan)
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2. Promoting Economic Co-operation
• Finding new ways to boost large scale investment projects in
the Barents region and to ensure availability of labor force.
• Drafting a joint tourism development programme until 2030
based on the Action Plan for Barents Tourism, resulting as a joint
marketing programme supported by national governments.
• Combining the regional marketing activities to profile the Barents/
arctic area as a single tourism destination for global markets.
Visit Arctic Europe co-operation should expand for the whole
Barents region.
• Renewing bureaucratic visa processes and enhancing the
flexibility in acquiring visas.
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3. Co-operation on Transport and Logistics
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Improving large-scale cooperation with Regional Working Group on
Transport and Logistics (RWGTL) and its various collaboration partners
as well as promoting the existing plans
Focusing investments in developing the safety and functionality of existing
border-crossing connections and removing the bottlenecks hindering the
traffic connections. The main focus is east-west traffic connections.
Continuing the development of the existing east-west traffic corridor NarvikHaparanda-Tornio-Oulu-Vartius-Kostomuksha-Archangelsk-Komi.
Improving regular air traffic connections to and between the centers of the
Barents region.
Continuing the development and investigation activities concerning the
Northern Sea Route, northern telecommunication and smart connections.
NOTE: Transport and logistics is also priority of the Russian chairmanship!
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© Joint Barents Transport Plan
4. Good Practices and co-operation in the Social
and Welfare sector
Finnish municipalities and regions will undergo extensive reforms in the coming
years.
The specific features of the Barents region set specific challenges for organizing
services. New operations models serving the regional purposes should be actively
developed, for example, utilizing remote technology.
The co-operation in social and welfare sector should be developed especially in the
border regions. The experiences gained and good practices developed in different
regions should also be made more widely known and put into practice in neighbor
regions.
The Kainuu Region will emphasize the following aspects of Barents cooperation:
• Promoting health and developing new ways and techniques for producing
services as joint projects.
• Organizing joint events under the theme of good practices on arranging social
and welfare services.
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5. Environment and Climate Change
• Fitting together the livelihoods and
sustainable development in the Barents
Region in order to gain sustainable profit
from the natural resources potential as
well as the arctic appeal for tourism.
• Reinforcing the tools needed for
implementing climate policy in the
Barents Region and for the co-operation
between the Barents Region and the
European Union, for example, via the
Covenant of Mayors.
Views of Paljakkavaara. Photo: Arja Korhonen
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• Promoting the development of nature
tourism in the area of the Green Belt of
Fennoscandia.
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6. Education, Research and Culture
• Strengthening the exchange of students and creating other
connections between universities and higher educational
institutes in the Barents region.
• Founding new, joint Master’s programmes, Doctoral
programmes and research programmes in order to boost the
development of livelihoods and to increase the mobility of
researchers in the northern regions.
• Improving the mobility, visibility and cross-border cooperation of cultural actors.
• Increasing the activity of young people and their influence
groups in exchanging experiences and supporting their
internationalization.
• Supporting new products of culture, as well as for crossborder cultural and sport events, esp. for the needs of tourism.
Sommelo Folk Music Festival
Photo: Janne Seppänen
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• Promoting the cultural co-operation between the Finno-Ugric
peoples and indigenous peoples in the Barents region.
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Some Forthcoming Meetings…
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RC meeting on February 16th, video conference
CSO Meeting March 2016, Arkhangelsk, Russia
BRC and RC Meetings 30-31 May 2016 Kainuu, Finland
+ some of the working groups
CSO Meeting June 2016, Petrozavodsk, Russia
Meeting of Ministers of Transport of the BEAC member states in
Arkhangelsk June 2016, Arkhangelsk, Russia
Meeting of Steering Committee of the Barents Euro-Arctic Transport Area,
June 2016, Arkhangelsk, Russia
Meeting of Ministers of Culture of the BEAC, summer 2016, Arkhangelsk
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• XVI BEAC Ministerial session, October 2017, Arkhangelsk
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Thank You for Your Attention!
Pentti Malinen
Regional Mayor
Chair of RC 2015-2017
+358 44 797 0197
[email protected]
Twitter: @MalinenPentti
Regional Council of Kainuu
Kauppakatu 1, 87100 Kajaani, FINLAND
Phone +3588 6155 41
[email protected]
www.kainuunliitto.fi
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