1. Committee of the Regions
Launching the event
Committee of the Regions
23 February 2006

2. Agenda of the meeting Welcome addresses by G. Stahl and G. Meadows
Results of the selection procedure
Overview of workshop proposals made by the conglomerates
Call for speakers for DG REGIO workshops
Timetable and further planning
Joint exhibition at the CoR
Questions and answers

3. Selected conglomerates 1/3
Baltic Sea Group
Schleswig-Holstein (DE), Copenhagen (DK), Hamburg (DE), Malmö (SE), Oslo Region (NO), Tallinn (EE), Vilnius (LT), West Pomerania (PL), West Sweden (SE)
Capital Cities/Regions & Cities for Cohesion
London (UK), Province of Barcelona (ES), Berlin (DE), Brussels-Capital Region (BE), Budapest (HU), G-4: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht (NL), Ile de France (FR), Lodz City (PL), Madrid (ES), Merseyside (UK), Prague (CZ)
Competitiveness and Innovation in Northen Europe
Turku-Southwest Finland (FI), Aarhus (DK), Liguria (IT), North Lapland-Oulu (FI), North Norway (NO), South Finland (FI), Tampere Central Region (FI), City of Tartu (EE), West Finland (FI), West Norway (NO)
Dynamic regions for Sustainable Development
Auvergne-Centre-Limousin (FR), Andalucia (ES), Irish Regions (IE), Pardubicky Region (CZ), Banska Bystrica Region (SK), Trencin Region (SK), Saarland (DE), South West UK (UK)
Green Motors for Growth
Rhône-Alpes (FR), Baden-Württemberg (DE), Catalonia (ES), Lombardia (IT), Malopolska (PL), Piemonte (IT), Swiss Cantons (CH), Vallée d’Aoste (IT)

4. Selected conglomerates 2/3
Innovative Solutions for Regional Competitiveness
Galicia (ES), Bretagne - Pays de la Loire - Poitou-Charentes (FR), Cantabria (ES), Extremadura (ES), Kujawsko-Pomorskie (PL), Lodz Region (PL), North East of England (UK), Steiermark (AT), West Pannonia (HU)
Interregional Network Summit
Saxony-Anhalt (DE), Kosice Region (SK), Thuringia (DE), Saxony (DE), Basque Country (ES), Murcia (ES), Cheshire (UK), North Great Plain (HU), Donegal (IE), Presov Region (SK)
Investments in Regional Partnerships
Rhineland-Palatinate (DE), Central Bohemia (CZ), Grand Est-Bourgogne (FR), Grand Est-Franche-Comte (FR), Liberec Region (CZ), Opolskie (PL), Mid-Transdanubian Region (HU), North Hungary (HU), South Great Plain (HU), South Transdanubian Region (HU)
Lisbon Regions
Valencia (ES), Emilia-Romagna (IT), Regio Randstadt (NL), Stuttgart Region (DE), Stockholm Region (SE), Helsinki & Uusimaa Region (FI), Riga City & Region (LV), West Midlands (UK)
METREX
Glasgow & Clyde Valley (UK), Athens (GR), Region Frankfurt Rhein-Main (DE), Nürnberg (DE), Oradea (RO), Rhein-Neckar (DE), Thessaloniki (GR)

5. Selected conglomerates 3/3
Regional Innovation for a Better Europe
ALPEUREGIO South Tyrol (IT), Trentino (IT), Tyrol (AT), Carinthia (AT), Central Moravia (CZ), Friuli Venezia Giulia (IT), Istria (HR), Navarra (ES), Timis County (RO), Veneto (IT)
Regions of Rond Point Schuman
Scotland (UK), Central Italy Regions: Abruzzo, Lazio, Marche, Tuscany, Umbria (IT), Pomorskie (PL), Wales (UK)
Sustainable Energy Regions
Mid Sweden (SE), East Finland (FI), East of England (UK), Estonian Cities (EE), Mid-Norway (NO), North Sweden (SE), Northern Ireland Executive (UK), Northwest England (UK), Ilfov (RO), Neamat (RO), Vrencea (RO), Western Greece (GR)
Ten for Competitiveness and Sustainability
Niedersachsen (DE), Bremen (DE), East-Netherlands Provinces (NL), Flevoland (NL), Lower Silesia (PL), Lubelskie Region (PL), North-Netherlands Provinces (NL), North-Netherlands Provinces (NL), Haute Normandie (FR), Wielkopolska (PL), Yorkshire & Humberside (UK)

6. Statistics of selected conglomerates
134 partner offices
24 different countries
20 Member States (missing: CY, LU, MT, PT, SI)
2 Candidate Countries (HR, RO)
2 non-EU countries (CH, NO)
Most represented countries:
- Germany (17 partners)
- Italy (14 partners)
- United Kingdom (13)
- Spain (12)
- The Netherlands, Poland (10 partners)
- Finland, France, Hungary (7 partners)
- Czech Republic (6 partners)
- Romania, Sweden (5 partners)

7. Overview of the proposals made
by the conglomerates (by heading)
total of 48 exceeds suggested 35 workshops because classification still needs to be done
Cutting red tape: Managing the Structural
Funds between 2007 and 2013 (3)
Investing in competitive enterprises
and high quality jobs (12)
Support public-private partnerships for
larger infrastructure projects (13)
Fostering regional innovation (12)
Investing in sustainable use of
resources and environmental technologies (8)

8. Call for speakers for DG REGIO
workshops
open between 16 February and 6 March
Objectives
Select 100 speakers for 35 workshops under REGIO's responsibility;
Complete the programme together with the conglomerates' workshops;
Focus will be on theme "E) Cutting red tape: Management of
Structural Funds "
Selection will be done by end of March.
More details *

9. Planning March April May June July August September October 18/05
Programme published via Internet,
Registration starts
16/06
Programme brochure
to be printed
3/04
First brochure
to be printed
28/05
Programme to be finalised
16/02 – 6/03 REGIO call for papers
March April May June
Decoration
Targeted promotion
Programme
Exhibition
28/07
Facts and Figures
to be printed
Decoration to be drafted
4/08
Menu for the reception
to be finalised
Exhibition to be planned
July August September October
Decoration
PRESS
Official Reception
Exhibition

10. Joint exhibition CoR building, 5th/6th floor
official opening on Monday 9 October 2006
Exhibitors - all partners regions
- by conglomerates
Public - representatives of banking sector
- entrepreneurs
- lobbyists
Attractivity - title: „Investing in Europe´s Regions and Cities“
- best practices of investment in my region/city
- capacity for investment in my region/city

11. Structure of the organisation
Committee of the Regions
Laurent Thieule
Jan Blaha
Ulrika Lagergren
Dorota Panczyk
DG REGIO
Thierry Daman
Wolfgang Petzold
Charles White
Conglomerates
contact persons & deputy contact persons
OPEN DAYS
Managing Team 1 2 3 …… 14
Leading office
Partner office
Conglomerate

12. Contacts Comments/questions opendays@cor.eu.int
Committee of the Regions
tel. 02/ (Jan Blaha)
tel. 02/ (Ulrika Lagergren)
tel. 02/ (Dorota Panczyk)
fax. 02/
DG REGIO
tel. 02/ (Wolfgang Petzold)
tel. 02/ (Charles White)