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ESPON 2013 Programme Internal Seminar 17-18 November 2010, Liege. Transnational Networking Activities Nordic-Baltic Dialogues on Transnational Perspectives in Spatial Planning (NORBA). Partners. Lead Partner: ECP Finland Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland
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ESPON 2013 Programme Internal Seminar 17-18 November 2010, Liege Transnational Networking Activities Nordic-Baltic Dialogues on Transnational Perspectives in Spatial Planning (NORBA)
Partners • Lead Partner: ECP Finland • Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland • Heikki Eskelinen, Timo Hirvonen • Partners: • ECP Estonia (University of Tartu) • Antti Roose • ECP Iceland (University of Akureyri) • Grétar Þór Eyþórsson • ECP Latvia (State Development Agency, Riga) • Liga Baltina • ECP Norway (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, NIBR) • Olaf Foss • ECP Sweden (Royal Institute of Technology) • Mats Johansson, Simon Falck • 2010-2012
Approach • Context • “…mature transnational cooperative milieu in the BSR” • Background survey: use of ESPON and other concepts for dealing with internationalization in planning and policy documents • Strategy • “ …facilitate dialogue and coalescence between institutional stakeholder interests and ESPON findings” • ESPON contribution to evidence-based/evidence-informed policy • Discussion forums
Main activities • Conferences • For policy-makers: Stockholm 3-4 February 2011 (in co-operation with Nordregio) • For young scholars: Roskilde 24-27 May 2011 (in connection of the Nordic Geographers Meeting) • For researchers: autumn 2011/spring 2012 (in co-operation with the Nordic Section of the ERSA) • Final conference: 2012
Transnational perspectives on spatial planning – Experiences from the Nordic-Baltic countries • Conference for Planners and Policy-makers • Venue: Nordregio (Stockholm), 3-4 February 2010 • Key themes: • Nordic-Baltic countries in the light of ESPON findings • ESPON vis-à-vis spatial and territorial policy at macro-regional, national and regional levels • Messages of the ESPON scenarios – from the metropolitan regions to the NSPA • Europeanization processes in spatial planning in the Nordic-Baltic countries: similarities and dissimilarities • Organizer: Mats.Johansson@abe.kth.se
NORBA Summary • Piloting transnational networking of ECPs at a macro-regional level • Open to the whole ESPON community • Continuous reporting; http://rha.is/norba