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The Regional Council of Itä-Uusimaa Jaakko Mikkola, 28th April 2009

The Regional Council of Itä-Uusimaa Jaakko Mikkola, 28th April 2009. The Region of Itä-Uusimaa. The Region of Itä-Uusimaa consists of ten municipalities population v. 2007 Askola 4 711 Lapinjärvi 2 929 Liljendal 1 452 Loviisa 7 391 Myrskylä 2 026 Pernaja 4 002 Porvoo 47 832

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The Regional Council of Itä-Uusimaa Jaakko Mikkola, 28th April 2009

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  1. The Regional Council ofItä-UusimaaJaakko Mikkola, 28th April 2009 nn

  2. The Region of Itä-Uusimaa • The Region of Itä-Uusimaa consists of ten municipalities population v. 2007 • Askola 4 711 • Lapinjärvi 2 929 • Liljendal 1 452 • Loviisa 7 391 • Myrskylä 2 026 • Pernaja 4 002 • Porvoo 47 832 • Pukkila 2 022 • Ruotsinpyhtää 2 920 • Sipoo 19 470 The Region of Itä-Uusimaa 94 755 Source: Statistics Finland nn

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  4. The Region of Itä-Uusimaa • Major fields of industry • Petrochemical Products • Electrical Engineering • Publishing and Printing • Employment by sectors 2004 • The Region of Itä-Uusimaa (Total in Finland) • Services 58,8% (68,9%) • Industry 34,4% (25,1%) • Agric. and forestry 4,9% (4,2%) • Source: Statistics Finland • Population 94 755 • Pop. density 34/km2 • Swedish speaking population 32,7% • Population by age • under 15 19,4% • 15-64 65,4% • over 64 15,2% • Land area 2761 km2 • Shoreline 3698 km • Holiday housing 10 229 nn

  5. Regional council of Itä-Uusimaa The ten municipalities of the Region of Itä-Uusimaa Regional Council Regional Board Executive Director and personnel nn

  6. The organisation of Regional council of Itä-Uusimaa Regional Council Inspection Comission Audit Regional Board Regional Management Committee Jaakko Mikkola Executive Director Barbro Forsström Per-Stefan Nyholm Chief Administrator Chief of Interest promotion Pekka Hallikainen Ilmi Tikkanen Planning Chief Regional development director Oskari Orenius Other personnel Spatial Planning Chief nn

  7. Regional Council of Itä-Uusimaa • Working period: 4 years, similar to Municipal Council working period • Each municipality has at least two representatives in the Regional Council • The representatives of the Regional Council must be delegates in a municipality nn

  8. The Regional Board • Working period: 2 years • 11 representatives chosen to the Regional Board • The seat distribution of the Regional Board should be equal to its member municipalities nn

  9. The Regional Management Committee • Working period: approximately until the end of the year 2013 • It consists of regional and municipality representatives, financing representatives, labour and economic representatives nn

  10. Activities and main tasks of the Regional Council of Itä-Uusimaa • Responsibility for regional development • Responsibility for regional planning • Infrastructural actor • Regional interest promotion • Co-operation • Other tasks Swallow: Symbol for the Region of Itä-Uusimaa nn

  11. Development vision ”The region of Itä-Uusimaa is an environmentally unique, capable, vital and bilingual cultural region, that takes care of its inhabitants’ well being. The region is an international actor in the Baltic sea region.” nn

  12. Regional program for Itä-Uusimaa 2007 – 2010EU-programs 2007-2013 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN REGIONAL PROGRAM (2006 Regional council) Implementation plan (2006 MYR; Regional board) REGIONAL PLAN Approved 12.11.2007 • Regional top projects • Transport system intention contracts • Regional centre program, OsKe • Working groups nn

  13. Regional development • Regional development authority • Regional planning, regional programme and its implementation plan • Co-operation with municipal authorities and regions and international projects are an important part of regional development nn

  14. The development plan for the region of Itä-Uusimaa 2035 Areas of emphasis of the development plan for Itä-Uusimaa: • Entrepreneurship • Education and competence • Well being and service production • Culture and tourism • Inhabitation and the environment • Transport and other connections nn

  15. Tourism • Tourism is one important service branch in the Region of Itä-Uusimaa • Regional Council of Itä-Uusimaa takes part in tourism development Sea trout: Symbol for the Region of Itä-Uusimaa nn

  16. Co-operation with Estonia 3+3 –co-operation since 1995: • 3+3 Water project • 3+3 Education network • 3+3 Shared environment Finnish partners: Itä-Uusimaa, Kymenlaakso, Päijät-Häme Estonian partners: Lääne- and Ida-Virumaa and Jõgevamaa nn

  17. Plans ja projects • Regional centre program (AKO) • Itä-Uusimaa education and work force demand prognosis plan • Ecologistics - oil combatting management and education -project • Shared environment -plan • Expert of public transport • The cultural environment of Itä-Uusimaa-project nn

  18. Regional planning • The regional plan guides land use in the Region of Itä-Uusimaa • Regional planning divides into: Start and aim phase Preparatory phase Draft phase Proposal phase Approval phase Confirmation phase nn

  19. Regional plans • Regional plan • I-regional plan 1979 • Recreational and protected nature areas and selected forestry areas • II-phase regional plan 1984 • Urban, transport and technical maintenance areas and changes to the first phase plan • III-phase regional plan1994 • Village and ridge areas and changes and supplements to the previous plans • IV-phase regional plan 1996 • Various changes and supplements to previous plans e.g. main oil pipeline • Regional plan under the new land use and building act 2000 • V-phase plan, regional plan 2000 • Various supplements to earlier plans • Overall regional plan • Draft plan 28.2.2005 • Proposal plan 28.5.2007 • Approved plan 12.11.2007 • 2. phase regional plan nn

  20. Transport and other connections • Securing the preconditions for transport development in the region • Public and service transport development • Traffic environment and safety improvement • Information network service development Coltsfoot: Symbol for the Region of Itä-Uusimaa nn

  21. Co-operation • Regional architect work in the Region of Itä-Uusimaa • Askola and Pukkila • Myrskylä and Pornainen • Lapinjärvi, Liljendal, Pernaja and Ruotsinpyhtää • The South Finland Regional Alliance • Vision: South Finland's prosperity in the Baltic Sea Region Regional banner: blue nn

  22. Regional interest promotion • Interest promotion is one sector of regional development • Interest promotion, planning and development form an entity • To promote regional strategies • Increase the region’s visibility Limestone of Sipoo: Symbol for the Region of Itä-Uusimaa nn

  23. International actor • South Finland Office in Brussels • CPMR-member 1995 • International co-operation • e.g. Finland and Estonia co-operation, 3+3 project nn

  24. Itä-Uudenmaan liitto Rauhankatu 29 06100 PORVOO +358 20 757 9400 Fax +358 19 585 270 www.ita-uusimaa.fi maakunta@ita-uusimaa.fi nn

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