Euregio 5th Forum

PROGRAMME AND SCHEDULE

HELSINKI-TALLINN EUREGIO 5th FORUM

“RENEWAL OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND SERVICES IN CROSS-BORDER CONTEXT”

May 30-31, 2006

Tallinn and Viinistu, Harju County, Estonia

May 30, 2006 in Tallinn

18.00-20.00 Get Together, Meriton Grand Hotel Tallinn

President Arnold Rüütel (tbc)

Ambassador Jaakko Kalela

Mr. Aimo Lempinen, Chairman of Helsinki-Tallinn Euregio

Mr. Toomas Vitsut, Chairman of the Tallinn City Council

Mr. Leevi Laever, Harju County Secretary

Band “2+2=5″

May 31, 2006 in Viinistu

08.30-10.00 Travel to Viinistu

Plenary session (languages: Estonian, Finnish, English)

10.00 – 10.25 Welcome address

Mr. Aimo Lempinen, Chairman of the Board of Euregio,

Executive Director of Uusimaa Regional Council

10.25 – 10.55 Regional development in Estonia

Mr. Jaan Õunapuu, Minister of Regional Affairs of Estonia

10.55 – 11.10 Developments in Estonian-Finnish cooperation and in the EU

Ambassador Jaakko Kalela

11.10 – 11.40 Metropolitan area governance

Mr. Jan Vapaavuori, Chairman of the City Board of Helsinki

11.40 – 12.00 Helsinki-Tallinn Euregio and the Central Baltic Programme

Mr. Pekka Sauri, Deputy Mayor, City of Helsinki

12.00 – 12.45 Lunch

12.45 – 13.20 The best practices of cooperation policies based on the examples of Euregio

Mr. Jan Oostenbrink, EUREGIO (Germany-Netherlands)

13.20 – 13.50 Change in the provision of local government services

Mr. Olli Pekka Hatanpää, Planning Chief, Housing Policy, Uusimaa Regional Council

13.50 – 14.20 Central-Baltic Programme- prospects and possibilities

Ms. Krista Kampus, Deputy head, Regional Development Department, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Estonia

14.20 – 14.45 Visiting Viinistu Art Gallery

14.45 – 17.00 Working groups

1. Experiences of the mergers of municipalities (language: Estonian-Finnish)

Moderator: Mr. Jüri Võigemast, director of the Association of the Estonian Cities

Cases:

1. Experiences of mergers of Uusimaa municipalities

Mr. Olli Pekka Hatanpää, Planning Chief, Housing Policy, Uusimaa Regional Council

2. Experiences of mergers of local authorities in Finland

Mr. Pekka Myllyniemi, Emeritus Mayor, Member of the Board of Uusimaa Regional Council

3. Experiences of Kuusalu and Loksa municipalities

Mr. Herko Sunts, Head of Kuusalu Municipality

Mr. Madis Praks, Vice-mayor of Loksa

4. Experiences of Anija and Kehra municipalities

Mr. Jüri Lillsoo, Head of Anija Municipality

2. Metropolitan area governance (language: Estonian-Finnish)

Moderator: Prof. Arno Allmann

Mr. Toomas Vitsut, Chairman of Tallinn City Council

Mr. Jari Sainio, 1st Deputy Chairman of the Board of Uusimaa Regional Council

Mr. Matti Ollinkari, City Secretary, City of Helsinki

3. Reforming provision of local government services (language: Estonian-Finnish)

Moderator: Mr. Toomas Välimäe, Managing Director, Union of Harju County Municipalities

Cases:

1. Public transportation (Interreg IIIA Pilet-project case)

Mr. Heikki Sahlsten, Chief Planner, Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council (YTV)

Ms. Terje Villemi, Development manager, Harju Public Transport Centre

2. Joint security projects

Mr. Mikko Virkamäki, SHARE -project coordinator, Helsinki Neighborhoods Association

4. The New EU programming period and Estonian-Finnish cross-border cooperation (language: English)

Moderator: Ms. Laine Valkama, Adviser of International Affairs, Uusimaa Regional Council

1. Municipal level cooperation project “Kusti”, best practice of Interreg IIIA programme

Ms. Leena Ritala, Manager of EU and International Affairs,

City of Järvenpää

Mr. Uku Torjus, Director, Social Welfare and Health Care Departement

2. Comments on priorities for new programming period from Euregio partners:

Mr. Ago Kokser, Harju County governor’s communication and economic adviser

Mr. Urmas Hallika, Director of Development, Tallinn City Office

3. Stockholm’s viewpoints to the new cross-border programme

Ms. Anna Larsson, Swedish Co-ordinator for the Central Baltic Programme, County Administrative Board of Stockholm

4. Estonian-Latvian cooperation experiences

Ms. Sille Talvet, Development manager, Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation

17.00 – 17.20 Working group results presented by the moderators

17.20 – 17.30 Conclusions

Mr. Urmas Hallika, Director of Development, Tallinn City Office

17.30 Travel back to Tallinn

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List of participants