Version 8June 2007

ESPON Seminar on 12-13 June 2007

Venue: World Conference Centre, Bonn, Germany

Use of results from applied territorial research in policy making

Final Programme

12 June 2007

12.00 – 13.00 Registration and buffet lunch

POLITICAL CONTEXT, EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL COOPERATION AND THE USE OF ESPON RESULTS *

Chair:Dr. Wendelin Strubelt, Vice-President and Professor, Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, Germany

13.00 – 13.10Welcome Address
Dr. Ulrich Hauschild, Mayor of the City of Bonn

Mr. Dieter Krell, Under-secretary, Land of North Rhein Westfalen

13.10 – 13.30Territorial Challenges for Europe – The Territorial Agenda and ESPON

Dr. Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs,Germany

13.30 – 13.50Towards a TA Action Programme and the contribution of ESPON

Vitor Campos, Director-General, Directorate General for Territorial planning and UrbanDevelopment,Portugal

13.50 – 14.10Use of ESPON in European Cohesion Policy development

Patrick Salez, European Commission

14.10 – 14.30Expectations to ESPON from a user’s view

Gianluca Spinaci, Committee of the Regions, Directorate for Consultative Works

14.30 – 14.50ESPON 2013 and an enforced user oriented approach

Peter Mehlbye, Director ESPON CU, Luxembourg

14.50 – 15.30Coffee

* Session sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs, Germany

USER EXPERIENCE AND STAKEHOLDER DEMAND

Chair:Thiemo Eser, ESPON Managing Authority, Luxembourg

15.30 – 15.50Experiences and lessons to learn: The researcher’s experience
Grzegorz Gorzelak, EUROREG, Poland

15.50 – 16.00Key topics for the afternoon workshops
Kai Böhme, ESPON CU, Luxembourg

16.00 – 18.003 parallel workshops:

Stakeholder use of ESPON results and demands for targeted analysis

Workshop A: Use and demand by European and National authorities

  • Facilitator: Peter Jung, MC chair, Germany
  • Input statements:

Patrick Salez, DG Regio

Didier Michal, France

Aileen Doyle,Ireland (t.b.c.)

Eike Ndiweni-Müller, UK

Margarita Jančič, Slovenia

  • Rapporteur: Kai Böhme, ESPON CU

Workshop B: Use and demand from Structural Funds Programmes

  • Facilitator: Paul Cozzi, INTERACT
  • Input statements:

Eric Dufeil, DG Regio

Melody Houk, Urbact

Michel Lamblin, INTERREG IV C

Ruut Louwers, North-West Europe

Gabriele Tatzberger, ÖIR

  • Rapporteur: Ernst Holzinger, Austria

Workshop C: Use and demand of regions and cities

  • Facilitator: Gianluca Spinaci, Committee of the Regions
  • Input statements:

Philippe Cichowlaz, CPRM (maritime and peripheral regions)

Kristiina Urpalainen, EuroMontana (mountain areas)

Roger Read, METREX (metropolitan areas)

Gérard Peltre, R.E.D.(ruralEurope)

Jean Peyrony, MOT(cross-border areas)

  • Rapporteur:

Volker Schmidt-Seiwert, BBR

19.00 – openDinner on the Rhine

13 June 2007

Chair:Thiemo Eser, ESPON Managing Authority, Luxembourg

09.00 – 09.30Feedback from the 3 workshops

COOPERATION BETWEEN STAKEHOLDERS AND ESPON

09.30 – 09.45Key topicsfor the workshops during the morning

Peter Mehlbye, ESPON CU, Luxembourg

09.45 – 10.15Coffee

10.15 – 12.003 parallel workshops:

Cooperation and partnership on the best use of ESPON results

Workshop D: Actions at European and transnational scale

  • Facilitator: Peter Schön, BBR
  • Input statements:

Olivier Baudelet, DG Regio

Ronan Uhel, EEA

Ulrich Graute, Cadses

Maria José Festas, Portugal

Clarisse Didelon, France, researcher’s view

  • Rapporteur: Sabine Zillmer, IRS

Workshop E: Actions at national and cross-border scale

  • Facilitator: Silvia Jost, Switzerland
  • Input statements:

Sverker Lindblad, Sweden

Jens Gabbe, AEBR (cross-border areas)

Tomaž Miklavčič, ESPON Contact Point, Slovenia

Hans-Jürgen Kujath, Germany, researcher’s view

  • Rapporteur: Sara Ferrara, ESPON CU

Workshop F: Actions at regional and urbanscale

  • Facilitator: Hallgeir Aalbu, Eurofutures
  • Input statements:

Phaedon Enotiadis, Cyprus

Sarka Puschmannova, Hradec Kralove region, Czech Republic

Mart Grisel, EUKN (urban knowledge network)

Tiziana Dell’Olmo, Region of Piemonte

Heikki Eskelinen, Finland, researcher’s view

  • Rapporteur: Michaela Gensheimer, consultant

12.00 – 13.00 Buffet lunch

13.00 – 13.30Feedback from the 3 workshops

13.30 – 15.00Open discussion:

Future directions for ESPON projects on targeted analysis in partnerships

Opening statements from workshop facilitators

15.00Conclusions

Farewell and departure

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