SEBco Final Conference in Schwerin on 13-14 November 2007

The conference was officially opened by the Minister for Transport, Building and Regional Development Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Mr. Otto Ebnet, who underlined that regions beyond metropolitan areas in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern have their own growth potentials and little success stories. The First Deputy Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship Mr. Mieczyslaw Struk from Poland and the Chairman of Zemgale Region Mr. Gints Kaminskis from Latvia also pointed out the need to support the potentials of small and medium-sized cities throughout the South Baltic Arc.

Furthermore, the experiences with city-suburban alliances in the involved countries were presented and showed the work done within the SEBco project in a very good way.  

 

At the second day the project partners summarised the results of two years project work within SEBco in the other work packages (industrial development, secondary railway revitalisation, internationalisation of SMEs).  

The subsequent study trip was dedicated to urban redevelopment, development at Schwerin's periphery and the Horticultural Exhibition in 2009 as development factor.

 

During the conference the final brochure was disseminated, that concluded our two years project work according to the main subjects in SEBco. You can download the brochure as PDF here.  

 

Please download the presentations of SEBco's Final Conference:

• Medium-sized towns as motors for the South Baltic Arc Region - European perspectives and policy options (Peter Schmitt, Nordregio, Sweden) PDF
• Strengthening medium-sized towns in Pomorskie region - challenges and approaches (Mieczysław Struk, First Deputy Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship, Poland) PDF

• Intermunicipal cooperation in city-suburban areas: chances and problems - the example of planning for industrial zones in the Rostock area (Gerd Schäde, Regional Planning Association Mittleres Mecklenburg/Rostock, Germany) PDF
• Laying foundations for city-suburban cooperation in Poland - analysis of city-suburban interdependencies and identification of above-local tasks in the Olsztyn area (Lidia Wójtowicz, Marshal Office of the Warminski-Mazurski Voivodeship, Poland) PDF

• Issues and instruments for coordinated city-suburban development in Taurage County (Nijole Slefendoraite, Taurage County Administration, Lithuania) PDF
• Regional profiling of industrial zones in Zemgale Planning Region - results from the SEBco pilot actions and lessons for the Baltic States (Raitis Madžulis, Zemgale Planning Region Administration, Latvia) PDF
• Regional profiling of industrial zones in Siauliai County - results from the SEBco pilot actions and lessons for the Baltic States (Dalia Dijokaitė, Siauliai County Administration, Lithuania) PDF
• Secondary railway revitalisation in Pomorskie region - regional impacts of the SEBco activities and recommendations for the new EU Member States: Part 1 Radomir Matczak, Marshal Office of the Pomorskie Voivodeship, Poland (PDF), Part 2 Marcin Wołek, University of Gdańsk, Poland (PDF)