On 10 June, a seminar to discuss financial and management aspects of the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region will be held in Vilnius.
On 10 June, a seminar to discuss financial and management aspects of the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region will be held in Vilnius.
At the seminar, Chair of the National Commission for the Supervision of the Implementation of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė will deliver a welcome speech.
Other members of the Commission, representatives from various state institutions of Lithuania, social and economic partners - members of businesses, academic institutions, municipal and non-governmental organizations - will attend the seminar.
Representatives from the European Commission, European Investment Bank, Nordic Investment Bank, the North Eastern European section of the EU's INTERACT programme that supports the implementation of regional cooperation projects, the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth will also attend the event.
The participants will discuss, how national action programmes of the EU’s structural funds and the programmes of territorial cooperation respond to the objectives of the EU’s Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, how international financial institutions contribute to the funding of the Strategy’s implementation. Needs and possibilities for technical assistance will also be discussed.
During the other part of the discussion, the participants will work in three target groups, which will present model projects of the Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, and will share the experience and the best practice in the areas of research and innovations, small and medium sized businesses, transportation, energy, tourism, health and education.
The European Council adopted the EU’s Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region on 29-30 October 2009. The Strategy allows eight EU countries - Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden – to jointly address the issues that are important for entire region. The Strategy allows using the EU funds and funds of international financial institutions more efficiently, to coordinate the positions of the countries better and to make the most of the Baltic Sea region's development potential in order to create an environmentally sustainable, prosperous, accessible, attractive and safe region.