OPEN DAYS 2010 Final Programme - European Commission - Europa

Managing diversity in EU regions and cities
The workshop aims to look at the problems faced by regions and cities throughout
Europe in managing a diverse society and in facilitating the integration of all
people regardless of their background: ethnic, religious, racial or other. These
problems are closely linked to economic immigration and/or post-conflict
immigration of people and are common throughout Europe. The objective of the
workshop is to provide examples of good practice on how to manage culturally
diverse societies in order to ensure the integration of all people. The workshop
is led by the SEUPB who is the Managing Authority for the PEACE Programme
and will present their experience in this field. Good practice examples from other
regions in Europe will also be presented.
Communicating across borders: The challenge of communicating the
results of European Territorial Cooperation programmes
European Territorial Co-operation (ETC) programmes face some intriguing
challenges in communicating the added value they offer. Finding the right tone
for two or more countries is not obvious. For transnational programmes it is
even more challenging: clear messages have to be found that are designed to
fit the needs of up to a dozen countries. This workshop examines ways in which
communicating the achievements of ETC projects and programmes can best be
done.
ESPON provides regions with targeted analysis
This workshop will provide an overview of the analyses that regions and Member
States have requested ESPON to undertake. These requests come for example
from cross-border regions, large agglomerations and European islands. The
work builds on previous ESPON studies and is conducted with the involvement
of the regions requesting these analyses and the ESPON coordination unit.
One of these analyses has already been concluded and ten more are ongoing.
In the current period, the ESPON 2013 programme includes a new priority that
provides regions, Member States and managing authorities with the possibility of
requesting a targeted analysis on a particular theme or issue. This analysis places
these regions and Member States in a European perspective and zooms in on
the policy-relevant conclusions that can be drawn for each of the participating
regions.
Workshops
Wednesday 6 October 2010
06B13
09:00 - 10:45
Venue: Centre Borschette, room 0 B
Organiser: European Commission, DG
Regional Policy
Speakers: Pat Colgan, Chief Executive, Special
EU Programmes Body, Northern Ireland, United
Kingdom; Maire Hendron, Chair, Good Relations
Unit, Belfast City Council, Northern Ireland,
United Kingdom; Shaun Henry, Director, Special
EU Programmes Body, Northern Ireland, United
Kingdom; Ulrika Lagergren, City of Malmö
Sweden, EU office, Brussels
06B14
09:00 - 10:45
Venue: Centre Borschette, room 0C
Organiser: European Commission, DG Regional
Policy
Chair: Henrik Josephson, Senior Communications
Officer, The North Sea Region Programme
Secretariat, Denmark
Speakers: Arianna Biriki, Programme Manager, Joint
Technical Secretariat of the Hungary - Slovakia Cross-
Border Co-operation Programme, Hungary; Christian
Huttenloher, Secretary General, German Association
for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development, Brussels;
Michel Lamblin, Director, INTERREG IVC Programme,
Lille, France; Nuala Morgan, Communication Officer,
INTERREG IVC - INTERREG IIIC West Joint Technical
Secretariat, Lille, France
06B15
09:00 - 10:45
Venue: Centre Borschette, room 1 B
Organiser: European Commission, DG
Regional Policy
Speakers: Roberto Camagni, Politecnico di
Milano Department of Management, Economics
and Industrial Engineering, Milan, Italy; Tobias
Chilla, University of Luxembourg; Alan Harding,
Professor of Urban and Regional Governance
and Director of IPEG, University of Manchester,
Manchester, United Kingdom; Viktoria Primhak,
Interdepartmental Research Centre L.U.P.T. -
Territorial Town Planning Laboratory, University of
Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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