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BALTIC SEA TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION: RU PERSPECTIVE. Belarus Denmark Estonia Finland Germany Latvia Lithuania Norway Poland Russia Sweden. Irina Karelina Leontief Centre Director General , BSR PROGRAMME MONITORING COMMITTEE MEMBER.

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  1. BALTIC SEA TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION: RU PERSPECTIVE Belarus Denmark Estonia Finland Germany Latvia Lithuania Norway Poland Russia Sweden Irina Karelina Leontief Centre Director General, BSR PROGRAMME MONITORING COMMITTEE MEMBER

  2. Baltic Sea Region – Strategic for EU-RUSSIA Cooperation : 8EU Member States: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, northern parts of Germany Norway NORTH-WEST REGIONS OF RUSSIA Belarus 100million inhabitants 11languages

  3. How transnational cooperation in the Baltic Sea has been developing? Involvement of Russia in transnational cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region is changing depending on the available instruments: BSRINTERREG II C: 45 PROJECTS/15 with participation of RU PARTNERS mainly as observers BSR INTERREG IIIBNEIGHBOURHOOD PROGRAMME 2000-2006 :129PROJECTS /78 with participation of RU PARTNERS integrating two different political agendas and financing instruments of ERDF and TACIS CBC BALTIC SEA REGION PROGRAMME 2007-2013:Russian organisations participate in 48 projects out of 65 approved projects in three calls in the status of associated organisationswithout ENPI funding

  4. BSR INTERREG IIIBNEIGHBOURHOOD PROGRAMME 2000-2006 fully demonstrated the benefits from both EU and non-EU countries : 129projects, 78with participation of Russian partners, 29 projects with external TACIS funding 3000 partners from Baltic regions, including 224 Russian Partners

  5. BSR INTERREG III B PROGRAMME 2000 – 2006 : Russian regional and local authorities - leaders among Russian partners Local and Regional Authorities Professional Associations Research and Education Institutions Regional and Local State Organizations Other

  6. BSR INTERREG III B PROGRAMME 2000 – 2006:Benefits from both EU and non-EU countries: strengthen the grass-root involvement of Russia in the Baltic problems and issues, better tackle the East-West divide and create better climate among the citizens of North-West Russia towards EU enlargement bring new economic stimuli to the development of the North West part of Russia thanks to increasing face to face international contacts at local and regional level in the framework of concrete project, encourage Russian regional and local decision-makers to change their developmental patterns and behaviors to the more entrepreneurial ones (orientation towards financial engineering, inventing/conceptualizing and building of transnational projects), ensure involvement of NW Russia in the economic and social development of the BSR, contribute to better implementation of the Northern Dimension Action Programme.

  7. BALTIC SEA REGION PROGRAMME 2007-2013:Priorities and quality focus Priority 1. Fostering innovations RU CONTRIBUTION: CREATIVE INDUSTRIES Priority 3. Baltic Sea as a common resource To make the Baltic Sea region an attractive place to invest, work and live in Priority 4. Attractive and competitive cities and regions RU CONTRIBUTION: SOCIAL AGENDA Priority 2. External and internal accessibility

  8. BALTIC SEA REGION PROGRAMME 2007-2013 The first call for proposals (25 February – 30 May 2008) 84 applications out of 110 involved Russian actors that requested in total 31.12 million EUR! 24 approved projects , including 19 with RU participation 48 out of 65 projects approved in three calls attract RUSSIAN ACTORS to their partnerships as associated organizations. Russian organisations demonstrated high interest in participation in joint transnational cooperation projects in the Baltic Sea Region, even with no funding available for their participation.

  9. ALL RUSSIA STRATEGIC PLANNING LEADERS FORUM BSR Transnational Cooperation– the key Action of the Forum International Agenda since 2001 The participants of the BSR FORUM roundtable (which are federal, regional and local authorities, NGO, academia) expressed their big concern that Russia did not join the Baltic Sea Region Programme; The participants of the BSR roundtable recommend to the Government of Russia to take an active role and undertake practical steps for reestablishment of the partner status of Russian organisations in the Baltic Sea Region programme and start negotiation process for the future programming period

  10. BALTIC SEA POLICY-DIALOGUE SEMINAR focused on realization of EU Baltic Sea Strategy, European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI), results and perspectives of BSR Programme 2007-2013 IV INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLE ON EUROPEAN COOPERATION FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT devotedto the celebration of the 40 years of Association of European Border Regions (AEBR). GREENING CITIES AND REGIONS session with presentation of best international practices and Green Growth regional and local policies , cooperation projects for sustainable development www.forumstrategov.ru

  11. Thank you !www.eu.baltic.net www.forumstrategov.ru

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