Day 1
8 October, Friday
13.00 - 17.00 CET/ 14.00-18.00 EET
Track chair
Track co-chair
Rationale
The Central Baltic region and Croatian Adriatic coast have similar geographical settings with a large number of islands, maritime traffic, and long coastal lines.
The Central Baltic countries have a strong experience in the high-tech sector, social innovation, education, public health, green energy and environment, and in building a democratic civil society.
Croatia is an attractive tourist destination. It could be considered an attractive location for investment in high-tech development due to its natural environment, the rich human capital of educated people, good transport connections that could create a platform for attracting companies and people to work in Croatia and to contribute toward building a knowledge society.
The social innovation experience of Nordic countries could provide an interesting experience that could help Croatia to improve its well-being and public services for the local population including rural areas and islands. The areas where digitization and smart technologies will play an important in the future and will require stronger cooperation with science and research for regional development .
The Nordic countries' cooperation experiences could be an interesting example for developing EU cooperation with Westerns Balkans including Croatia and Southern Dalmatia participation.
Objectives
Presentations are invited to include an overview and to highlight possible interests in cooperation:
Topics:
TRACK AGENDA
EU and Inter-regional Southern Finland and Southern Dalmatia Smart Regions and Islands innovation dialog for post-pandemic recovery
Presentation of Dubrovnik-Neretva County , development strategies, priorities, and challenges
Central Baltic - Adriatic Croatia and Western Balkan's cooperation opportunities for blue, green sustainable development
Panel, co-creation session
Finnish/Nordic - Croatian/Balkans inter-regional cooperation opportunities to stimulate economic recovery after the COVID pandemic.
Regional capacities and strengths, RIS3, development challenges, challenges due to COVID pandemic, cooperation opportunities input to other tracks and sessions
Moderator:
Panelists:
Co-creation/panel session aim :
Participants:
expected results: summary of regional strengths , capacities , challenges important for smart islands, villages, and cities development
- Islands, rural communities, and region societal, economic, public health, and cultural challenges related to COVID pandemic recovery (tourism, economy)
- topics vs expressions of interest in cooperation, partnerships, and project development (online questionnaire form)
- the highlight of key changes and problems needed further discussions, projects development, or social innovation solutions where different islands and rural communities are ready to step in/ forward and support the developments, participate, or to volunteer
8 October, Friday
13.00 - 17.00 CET/ 14.00-18.00 EET
Track chair
Track co-chair
Rationale
The Central Baltic region and Croatian Adriatic coast have similar geographical settings with a large number of islands, maritime traffic, and long coastal lines.
The Central Baltic countries have a strong experience in the high-tech sector, social innovation, education, public health, green energy and environment, and in building a democratic civil society.
Croatia is an attractive tourist destination. It could be considered an attractive location for investment in high-tech development due to its natural environment, the rich human capital of educated people, good transport connections that could create a platform for attracting companies and people to work in Croatia and to contribute toward building a knowledge society.
The social innovation experience of Nordic countries could provide an interesting experience that could help Croatia to improve its well-being and public services for the local population including rural areas and islands. The areas where digitization and smart technologies will play an important in the future and will require stronger cooperation with science and research for regional development .
The Nordic countries' cooperation experiences could be an interesting example for developing EU cooperation with Westerns Balkans including Croatia and Southern Dalmatia participation.
Objectives
- to provide presentations of development strategies, priorities challenges of regional EU policies, participating regions, islands, and rural communities provided by international and EU organizations, regional and local authorities
- to discuss complementarities, synergies between regional ecosystems in Central Baltic and Adriatic regions and to highlight cooperation possibilities in COVID pandemic recovery, knowledge, and social innovation experiences transfers, tourism development, building democratic
- to present cooperation experience Nordic and Central Baltic countries to Croatian and Western Balkans countries
Presentations are invited to include an overview and to highlight possible interests in cooperation:
- between the regions
- interest in collaboration with the multidisciplinary scientific community (system science, digital and data platforms, social and human science),
- Living Labs participation
- to provide references to concrete initiatives and possible new projects, policies
Topics:
- Presentation of EU policies related to regional and rural, islands development, digitalization, COVID challenges, and recovery program
- EU regional science, ERRIN
- Smart Regions, Smart Islands, Smart/Digital villages
- Presentations of the participation FIN and HR regions, competencies, development challenges, interest in cooperation
- Thematic presentation of regions on Tourism, Mobility, Health, Green Blue environment
TRACK AGENDA
EU and Inter-regional Southern Finland and Southern Dalmatia Smart Regions and Islands innovation dialog for post-pandemic recovery
- EU CoR presentation of regional development strategies
- EU Regional Research Network and it priorities
- RIS3 smart specialization and Digitalization strategies
- European Network of Rural Development
- Smart Villages
- Smart Islands
- EU Digital Innovation Hubs
Presentation of Dubrovnik-Neretva County , development strategies, priorities, and challenges
- Presentation of Dubrovnik-Neretva County , development strategies, priorities, and challenges
- Dubrovnik Smart City project
- Dubrovnik region and city international cooperation projects
- South Dalmatian tourism and its challenges
- Islands Movement in Croatia
- Economic and COVID related challenges of islands and rural communities
- Blue Green Digital Innovation HUB of Croatian Adriatic region
Central Baltic - Adriatic Croatia and Western Balkan's cooperation opportunities for blue, green sustainable development
- Central Baltic Region development strategists, priorities, and cooperation experiences
- Presentation of Southern Finland region and its development strategies, priorities, and challenges
- Smart Helsinki , Forum Virium Kalasatama
- Smart Espoo
- AVIAPOLIS - Vantaa Airport Innovation experience
- Smart Tourism and pandemic challenges in Finland
- Salo IoT Campus
- Finnish Digital Innovation HUBs
- ITS sector in Finland
- ADRION region projects and strategists
- Nordic Private Sector Market Dialogue - Western Balkans
- Balkans Business opportunities for Nordic countries
- Estonian ICT - a global player from the Baltic region
- Nordic and Baltic countries cooperation experiences and Western Balkans EU cooperation
Panel, co-creation session
Finnish/Nordic - Croatian/Balkans inter-regional cooperation opportunities to stimulate economic recovery after the COVID pandemic.
Regional capacities and strengths, RIS3, development challenges, challenges due to COVID pandemic, cooperation opportunities input to other tracks and sessions
Moderator:
Panelists:
Co-creation/panel session aim :
- to identify concrete cooperation areas and topics of mutual interest for regional development (incl organizations involved) social innovation, concrete projects proposal
- to highlight concrete topics of interest for cooperation with the new areas of multidisciplinary science (system, digital, human and social aspects)
- to summarize common interests in Living Lab for Smart/Region/Village and Island and center development
- to highlight priorities and cooperation opportunities for further discussions at other SILA2021 sessions and for future events agendaa developments
Participants:
- EU and EP
- Regional authorities, development agencies and stakeholders, organizations from Finland, Estonia, Croatia
- Regional authorities, development agencies, and stakeholders, organizations
expected results: summary of regional strengths , capacities , challenges important for smart islands, villages, and cities development
- Islands, rural communities, and region societal, economic, public health, and cultural challenges related to COVID pandemic recovery (tourism, economy)
- topics vs expressions of interest in cooperation, partnerships, and project development (online questionnaire form)
- the highlight of key changes and problems needed further discussions, projects development, or social innovation solutions where different islands and rural communities are ready to step in/ forward and support the developments, participate, or to volunteer