OPEN DAYS 2010 Final Programme - European Commission - Europa

Rethinking leadership for 21st century European cities and regions
This session examines the changing leadership task associated with new and
emerging agendas around place-based policies. It presents the changed context
for leadership - both formal and informal leadership within and for European
cities and regions as they continuingly shape and re-shape. Thus, this session
looks at the concept of place and the leadership of integrated policy (economic
development, planning, housing, regeneration, education, transport, health,
crime and security and so on) for neighbourhoods, towns, cities, regions and
cross-border regions. This session will appeal to those in formal (and informal)
leadership roles as well as policymakers and practitioners working in urban and
regional development.
Competitiveness from a national, regional and urban perspective
Competitiveness measures the ability of a region or country to provide high levels
of prosperity to its citizens. This in turn depends on how productively a region or
country uses its resources. The recent economic crisis has underlined the need
to ensure a sustainable approach to economic development. This workshop will
describe different measures at the global, national, regional and urban level. It
will investigate which are the main issues threatening competitiveness in the EU
at the different levels. Finally it will discuss which are the key policies that can
overcome these threats and bolster the competitiveness of the EU.
Territorial Cohesion: What will it mean in the regions?
Territorial Cohesion is now officially an aim of the EU. The Lisbon Treaty adds
territorial cohesion to the earlier aims of economic and social cohesion and this
new competence could shape the way that European cohesion policy develops
for the post-2013 funding period. This session will set out to explore the new and
emerging debates and ideas which will underlie future regional development in
Europe. In particular it will address the meanings of territorial cohesion as a way
of securing greater policy co-ordination within regions and as a framework within
which to achieve sustainable and balanced regional development. This session
will appeal to policy makers and practitioners working in regional development
and strategic spatial planning.
The OPEN DAYS University
Wednesday 6 October 2010
06UNIV10
11:15 - 13:00
Venue: European Commission, Charlemagne
building CHAR-S1 (Room Mansholt)
Organiser: Regional Studies Association
Speakers: Christian Saublens, European
Association of Development Agencies
-EURADA, Belgium; John Gibney, Centre for
Urban and Regional Studies, University of
Birmingham, United Kingdom; Josep Miquel
Piqué, 22@Barcelona District, District of
Innovation – Barcelona City Council, Spain; Lisa
Trickett, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies,
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom;
Mikel Landabaso, European Commission, DG
Regional Policy, Brussels, Belgium
06UNIV11
14:30 - 17:00
Venue: European Commission, Charlemagne
building CHAR-S1 (Room Mansholt)
Organiser: European Commission, DG Regional Policy
Speakers: Ben Derudder, University of Ghent,
Belgium; Christian Ketels, Senior Fellow, Center for
Strategy and Competitiveness at the Stockholm
School of Economics, Sweden; Martin Ron,
Cambridge University, United Kingdom
06UNIV12
14:30-17:00
Venue: European Commission, Charlemagne
building CHAR-S2 (Room Jenkins)
Organiser: Regional Studies Association
Speakers: Gordon Dabinett, Sheffield
University, United Kingdom; Illona Palne-Kovacs,
Transdanubian Research Institute of the Centre for
Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Hungary; Kai Boehme, Director, Spatial Foresight
GmbH, Germany; Roberto Camagni, Politecnico di
Milano Department of Management, Economics
and Industrial Engineering, Italy; Simin Davoudi,
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
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