Europaudvalget 2008-09
EUU Alm.del Bilag 382
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The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea
Building partnership for
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Competitiveness
Conference organised jointly by
demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy
Swedish Embassy in Poland
Office of the Committee for European Integration
Scandinavian – Polish Chamber of Commerce
Baltic Development Forum
3 June 2009
Hotel Radisson SAS Warsaw
8.15 – 8.45 Registration and Welcome Coffee
8.45 – 9.00 Welcome and Introduction
Piotr Serafin,
Under Secretary of State, Office of the Committee for European Integration
9.00 – 9.45 Opening speech
Per Westerberg,
Speaker of the Riksdag
Michał Boni,
Member of the Council of Ministers, The Chancellery of the Prime Minister
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki,
CEO Pekao SA
9.45 – 10.30
Hot Chair Session I
The pursuit of growth through innovation. Delivering on the Fifth Community freedom.
Chair: Hans Brask,
Director Baltic Development Forum
Special Guest: Mikael Lindholm,
Partner Lindholm & Co, expert on strategy, innovation and
communication, engaged with Danish most esteemed publications such as the magazine Mandag
Morgen and Denmark’s largest business paper Børsen, author of several publications devoted to
innovation such as
Release the Innovation – Denmark as a creative superpower
10.30 – 11.15
Hot Chair Session II
What is at stake in the Baltic Sea Strategy?
Chair: Adam Jasser,
Director of Programmes demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy
Special Guest: Uffe Ellemann-Jensen,
former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Chairman Baltic
Development Forum
11.15 – 11.45
Coffee Break
General Sponsors
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11.45 – 12.30 Discussion Panel I
Priority I: Facing the short-term challenges. Eliminating barriers to trade and competitiveness.
This panel will discuss key barriers to trade and burdens to an effective collaboration between key
stakeholders within an entire region. It will present the scope of tools and policy measures included in the
Baltic Sea Strategy aimed at removing obvious trade barriers and upgrading the business environment to
stimulate development of local enterprises and attract foreign investors. It will explore the priorities
focused on strengthening general conditions to growth, more effective support for entrepreneurship,
SME development and cooperation between business support institutions.
Chair: Dag Hartelius,
Ambassador of Sweden
Anders Lindholm,
European Commission DG Regio
Mec. Andrzej Tokaj,
Managing Partner Magnusson Kancelaria Prawnicza
12.30 – 13.30 Discussion Panel II
Priority II: Laying the foundations for long-term growth. Exploiting the macro region’s full business
potential through innovation, knowledge and skills.
This panel will explore ways of harnessing the potential provided by the first EU macro regional
framework of cooperation. It will discuss the opportunities offered by the Baltic Sea Strategy to develop
business and policy environment that enables to boost the spirit of entrepreneurship, foster linkages
between top knowledge institutions, private investors and related business services as well as exploit the
full potential of innovation of the region in its contribution to economic growth. It will assess the
opportunities posed by transnational cooperation aimed at achieving better intraregional mobility,
higher coherence and eventually laying the foundations for long term sustainable growth.
Chair: Peter Tærø Nielsen,
Chairman Scandinavian-Polish Chamber of Commerce
Professor Witold Orłowski,
Chief Economist PricewaterhouseCoopers
Włodzimierz Kicioski,
President Nordea Bank Polska
Sven Gunnar Edlund,
Director of Innovation Actors Division, VINNOVA
13.30 – 14.15
Priority III: Funding and Finance. Finding optimal sources and channels to harness business
opportunities within the Baltic Sea Region.
This panel will provide an overview of the scope of EU and regional financial opportunities, measures and
tools offered within the Baltic Sea Region aimed at underpinning the envisaged EU Baltic Sea strategy. It
will discuss opportunities of a secure access to capital in the region and proposed schemes aimed at
exploiting economies of scale and scope in investing and lending. The participants will be offered an
opportunity to address the speakers directly with related questions to the theme.
Chair: Paweł Świeboda,
President demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy
Johnny Åkerholm,
President & CEO Nordic Investment Bank
Agnieszka Jankowska,
Director of Managing Department for Competitiveness and Innovation
Programmes, Ministry of Regional Development
14.15 Conclusions
14.30 Lunch
General Sponsors