Programme
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17.10.2011
P14
14.30-16.30
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IV ROUND TABLE
Actual Issues of International Cooperation for Regional Development
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Summary
The IV International round table traditionally provides a platform to discuss various aspects of current international issues of regional development. Among other topics particular attention will be paid to
the 40th anniversary of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR). Over a distance of 40 years, the Association is representing the interests of crossborder and transborder regions in Europe, and countries outside the EU. The Secretary General of AEBR Mr. Martín
Guillermo Ramírez, officially confirmed his participation in the Forum, will make a review of the 40year activity of the Association in support of crossborder cooperation, joint crossborder programs and projects development.
The program of the round table also includes the speech of the Vice-Governor of Kursk region Mr. Gennady Plohih about holding the first ever General Assembly of AEBR in Russia in Kursk (September 2011).
The discussion will continue with speeches of the experts and representatives of European, international and national organizations: European Conference of Ministers responsible for Spatial/Regional Planning (CEMAT), the Council of Europe, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, etc.
Due to the growing of international importance of the Arctic region presentations by experts on sustainable strategies for longterm development of the Arctic are also scheduled.
Besides, within the frameworks of the round table Europe’s leading expert on regional development, Mr. Jacques Robert will present his new book “The European Territory: from roots to global challenges”.
Concept
Izotova Galina, First Deputy Chairman of Committee for Affairs of Federation and Regional Policy of State Duma of the Russian Federation
The AEBR: 40 Years of Cross-Border Cooperation in Europe
Martín Guillermo Ramírez, Secretary General of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR)
First in the History of General Assembly AEBR in Russia in City of Kursk (September 2011)
Plokhikh Gennady, Deputy Governor - Chairman of the Committee on External Relations of the Administration of Kursk Region, Martín Guillermo Ramírez, Secretary General of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR)
How Regions Grow?
William Tompson, Head of Unit for Rural and Regional Development of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Possibilities of Cross-Border Interregional Cooperation in terms of the Synergy of the Baltic and Danube Macroregional Strategies, the Eastern Partnership and EU-Russia Cooperation Programs
Broyde Zinoviy, Director of the State Scientific & Technical Centre for Inter-Sectorial & Regional Problems of the Environmental Safety and Resource Conservation (Centre "EcoResource")
International Intellectual Cooperation in the Arctic Zone
Pelyasov Alexander, Director of the Center for Arctic and Northern Economies of the State Research Institution “Council for the Study of the Productive Forces” at the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Sciences
E-Magazine Presentation Regional Research of Russia
Artobolevskiy Sergey, Head of Department of the Institute of Geography RAS
Book Announcement of Mr. Jacque Rober, Leading European Expert «the European Territory: from Roots to Global Calls»,
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