1. Third PSF in Gdansk, 15-17 June 2003 WORKSHOP INFORMATION Belarus Denmark Estonia Finland Germany Latvia Lithuania Norway Poland Russia Sweden Joint Secretariat, Bo Löwendahl

2. WORKSHOP INFORMATION, Gdansk 16-17June 2003 Time-frame (1) Monday 16/6 13:30 – 17:00 Thematic WORKSHOPS in parallel Tuseday 17/6 09:00 – 09:45 PLENARY SESSION Reporting and reflection by the Key-Note speakers

3. WORKSHOP INFORMATION, Gdansk 16-17June 2003 WORKSHOP AIMS (2) AIM OF THE WORKSHOPS:  For potential partners – to find project partners and to get support in generation and development of project ideas with possible partners from present and “new member states”, Russia and Belarus  For programme stakeholders and JS – to provide an opportunity to get an overview on which projects are “in the pipeline”. Expanding the Project Idea Catalogue on the INTERREG III B home-page, containing project ideas (PIFs)

4. WORKSHOP INFORMATION, Gdansk 16-17 June 2003 CONTENT (3) Four workshops on three foci WS 1: Balanced polycentric settlement structures; city- regions, urban and rural relationships WS 2: Sustainable communication links for improved spatial integration; pan-Baltic inter-modal transport strategies and ICT WS 3A: Institution building, strengthening the capacity for spatial development activities WS 3B: Institution building strengthening the capacity for spatial development activities

5. Measure 2.1: Promoting balanced polycentric settlement structures Current status: Available funding: M€ 11.0  10 projects approved with a very scattered picture and mixed quality  Difficult to analyse the projects contribution to Polycentricity  Many project focusing on only rural dev. actions in the urban-rural relationship (4)

6. Measure 2.1: Promoting balanced polycentric settlement structures Missing:  High level projects contributing to the complex objectives of supporting polycentric settlement structures  Projects focusing on urban cluster buildings and city-regions in cooperation & competition  Projects developing instruments to manage intra-regional rural-urban migration Proposal:  Target calls to emphasis high quality projects in order to meet the objectives of the measure (5)

7. Measure 2.2: Sustainable communication links for improved spatial integration Current status: Available funding: M€ 10.6  5 transport project, mostly concentrated in the Southern & Central BSR with different foci  No projects focusing on improved access to ICT  Additional TP projects in the pip line in the north and one broad maritime transport network incl. private actors Missing:  Pan-Baltic multimodal transport strategy projects as framework for aggregating the individual sub-projects

8. Measure 3: Institution building, strengthening the capacity for spatial development activities Current status: Available funding: M€ 12  Only 4 project approved with various focus; e. g. -business, environment, civil protection and sustainable cities  3 projects with high level of profession training Missing:  projects on improved capacity for better integrated BSR in East-West institution building Proposal:  Strongly encourage project applications in this field due to the enlargement process (6)

9.  Built on “Project Idea and Partner Search Forms” – “PIFs”  Divided after priorities & measures  Comprising to-day: 44 new ideas submitted to PSF (during February - May) 30 direct related ideas to the three foci of the Gdansk PSF Project Idea Catalogue - A tool for Project and Partner Search WORKSHOP INFORMATION, Gdansk 16-17June 2003 PIF – CATALOGUE (7)

10. WORKSHOP INFORMATION, Gdansk 16-17June 2003 ROOMS (8) WORKSHOP 1: Room: VIRGO Facilitator: Christoph KAUFMANN WORKSHOP 2: Room: URSA Facilitator: Wiktor SZYDAROWSKI WORKSHOP 3A: Room: ORANIA Facilitator: Matti LIPSANEN WORKSHOP 3B: Room: MIRA Facilitator: Ann-Irene SÆTERNES

11. WORKSHOPFACILITATORROOM Resource Person, Joint SecretariatSecretary 1 Measure 2.1 Christoph KAUFMANNVIRGO Bosse LÖWENDAHL Krystof GIERUSKI 2 Measure 2.2 Wiktor SZYDAROWSKI URSA Mattias ALISCHDorota PRZYLUDSKA 3A Measure 3.0Matti LIPSANENORANIA Marta PLICHTAOdd GODAL 3B Measure 3.0 Ann-Irene SÆTERNES MIRA Susanne SCHERRERMateus KUJAWA Partner Search Forum Gdansk 16-17 2003 WS-RESPOSIBILITIES (9) WORKSHOP INFORMATION, Gdansk 16-17June 2003