A number of meetings and conferences are scheduled in Stockholm 25-28 November 2009 and a full list of side events taking place will follow soon.
Side events on Wednesday 25 November
13:30-17:30 URBAN MATRIX Final Event “Defining Priorities for the Sustainable City of the Future”
The Final workshop of URBAN MATRIX will focus on the future priorities of “sustainable cities”. Gathering the opinions of European, National and local stakeholders, it will be the perfect occasion to kick-off the debate of the EUROCITIES Annual Conference Stockholm 2009 “Urban Challenges – Sustainable Solutions”.
The programme will include:
- Presentation of the URBAN MATRIX Recommendations to the European Commission on future EU urban practice and research (EUROCITIES, DG RESEARCH)
- Examples of research and practice cooperation on Sustainable Urban Development (City of Helsinki, Fomento de San Sebastián and University of the West of England, Bristol).
- Discussion on the Reference Framework for Sustainable Cities and Urban Audit (DG REGIO and Swedish Ministry of Environment)
At the same time, URBAN MATRIX will participate in the programme of EUROCITIES 2009, co-organising the Deep Dive "The Hammarby Model - Integrated waste, water and energy"
For draft agenda and registration please follow this link or contact jorgina.cuixart@eurocities.eu
09:00-16:00 "EmPOWERing the low carbon economy"
Stockholm Region has the pleasure of inviting you to the mid-term conference of the Power Programme. POWER is an inter-regional programme aimed at driving Low Carbon Economies. The main objectives of the side-event are:
-To increase the awareness of the possibilities to reach a low carbon economy among local, regional, and private actors
-To achieve qualitative and fruitful discussions with high level participants and experts, the results of which can contribute to the EU policy work
-To deepen the already existing co-operations and establish new ones within the POWER programme
-To provide a platform for the exchange of good practices and ideas for future actions
-To present and evaluate the first call for proposal and ongoing subprojects
Open the programme of the event or get more information about the Power programme by following this link.
13:30-18:00 CONNECTIONS Final Event “Social Inclusion at the City level”
The CONNECTIONS final event will present participants with an interesting socially orientated side event with which to start the EUROCITIES 2009 Stockholm. The Social Affairs Forum has committed itself to produce reports on different social inclusion initiatives from our members, and how they are organized. In doing so the project managed to include research institutes and NGOs (one of each for every member city participating).
The CONNECTIONS team is proud to present its findings to a larger audience of EUROCITIES members. We will have the final report available to all participants. It includes the development of a peer review method and proves that mutual learning and peer reviewing are valuable instruments to reinforce the European Commission's (EC) Open Method of Coordination. Ground level experiences like the ones that have been the focus in CONNECTIONS show that cities throughout the EU face similar challenges with regard to multiple deprivation. Therefore it is important for cities and the EC to develop a European policy context and implement effective social inclusion policies at the local level. It also provides an attractive overview of striking issues found during our visits in Leeds (UK), Malmo (SE), Rotterdam (NL), Newcastle (UK), Oslo (NO), Vienna (AU), Munich (DE) and Budapest (HU). Themes addressed in CONNECTIONS are: financial inclusion, democratic participation, problematic youth, unemployment, housing exclusion, neighbourhood work and gender equality.
The side event will take place at Clarion Sign Hotel - the venue of the conference.
You will find the full programme here
For registration please contact Kris Luijsterburg at: k.luijsterburg@sozawe.rotterdam.nl
Please take a look at our website: www.connectionsprogress.eu
Side events on Friday 27 November
09:55-10:20 Signing of the EUROCITIES Climate Change Declaration during the coffee break on Friday morning with photo opportunity
11:30-12:00 The EUROCITIES Green Digital Charter provides a practical framework to deliver on Climate Change objectives through digital technologies. The Charter has been developed within the Working Group ICT & Energy Efficiency, led by Manchester. Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, will host an informal side meeting, where politicians can sign the Charter.
For more information, please contact Jan Franke jan.franke@eurocities.eu
14.00 - 15.00 Eastern and Southern Members Outreach Eastern and Southern countries' members are invited to meet on Friday after the conference, in the Clarion Sign hotel to discuss the best ways to increase their participation in the network's activities. For more information, please contact Jean-Pierre Ernotte jean-pierre.ernotte@eurocities.eu
14.00 – 15.00 Globe Forum City Challenge 2010
During Maud Olofsson’s, Minister for Enterprise and Energy Deputy Prime Minister Sweden, speech she challenged all EUROCITIES to take on the City Challenge, that has arisen from the need to showcase innovations, share sustainability projects and promote urban sustainable development.
Take on the challenge - Harness the Power of Collaboration
The City Challenge will lay the founding bricks for Europe’s largest database for sustainable development, and will become the leading tool for cities, researchers, businesses and innovators when looking for best practises within sustainable urban development.
By taking on the challenge you will become one of the funding city members of the database. As a member of the database you can easily get the innovative technologies and solutions you need to succeed.
The projects will be searchable by regional affiliation, industry, type of project, and will pin down what to focus on in urban development and how to collaborate more effectively across industries.
The database will display results and progress and real time status of what is going on globally in sustainable development.
Come listen to the organizations that stand behind the City Challenge, and how this initiative can solve the climate challenges ahead of us:
Johan Gorecki, CEO Globe Forum
Gustav Brandberg, Digital Business Advisor at Tieto
Hans Hassle, CEO PLANTAGON International AB.
Björn Sigurdsson, Climate Strategy at The city of Uppsala, Sweden's fourth largest municipality.
Fabian Levihn, Globe Forum research in collaboration with KTH, Stockholm
For more information: Globe Forum secretariat, Carl Norlin, +46 (0)76 19 95 797, carl.norlin@globeforum.com
15:00-17:00 The WG Cohesion Policy will meet on Friday after the conference, in the Clarion SIgn hotel. For more information, please contact Marie Ranty marie.ranty@eurocities.eu
15:00-16:00 The WG ENP will meet on Friday after the conference, in the Clarion SIgn hotel. For more information, please contact Bernardo Rodrigues bernardo.rodrigues@eurocities.eu