UMBRELLA 3rd Participation Day
Almost 100 participants from Baltic Sea Region NGOs, academia, municipalities and various transnational projects joined us on 11th June 2019 in Gdansk to take part in 3rd Participation Day.
This years event was organized jointly by the EUSBSR HA Capacity coordinators, Umbrella project and Union of the Baltic Cities. We invited the stakeholders to come and share their project ideas for future cooperation possibilities in our region.
At first, participants were welcomed by the Vice Marshal of the pomorskie Region – Mr Wiesław Byczkowski, followed by Anders Bergstrom, representing both HA Capacity and PA Education as their coordinator. He also explained the concept of Participation Day. They were followed by three inspirational speeches from the representatives of 3 different sectors:
Public sector: Mr. Mikko Lohikoski, Union of the Baltic Cities
Private sector: Mr. Tomasz Szymczak, Starter Incubator and Gdańsk Entrepreneurship Foundation (ppt here: Participation Day Gdańsk Tomasz Szymczak
3rd sector: Ms. Magda Leszczyna-Rzucidło, Euroregion Baltic (ppt here: PD2019 MagdaLeszczynaRzucidloEuroregionBaltic)
Please see below the list of projects sent to the organisers and discussed during the event:
- Innovations for a circular and socially coherent economy (25)
- Waste Management and handling Household Waste in the BSR (Sweden)
- Baltic Sea clusters network for innovation in the maritime industry (Poland)
- Remote sensing of marine plastic pollution (Poland)
- Smart Regions 4.0 (Poland)
- Biking South Baltic – More Emotion (Poland)
- Urban mobility – smart and sustainable (7)
- Antimicrobial resistance and pharmaceuticals in the Baltic Sea Region environment (6)
- Operational consortium (Poland)
- Competence supply (12)
- SECiSo – supported education to re-integrate early school leavers (Sweden)
- STEAM – increasing the attractiveness of science and technology (Finland)
- Digital employment – how digital solutions can be used for workers’ continue learning (Finland)
- EduPython (Poland)
- Other proposals (for example; access to clean water, green technologies, rural development) (17)
- Baltic Cultural Strategy Network – forming a network of those cities in the BSR that have been European Capital of Culture (Sweden)
- Application of satellite data for environment management (Poland)
- Enhancing stakeholder participation in the EUSBSR by honing their sustainability skills (Poland)
- Changes in agricultural production due to climate change (Poland)
- ESTLAT harbours (Latvia)
- Coastal hiking (Latvia)
- Vertical wind power-stations (Poland)
- Studio visit (Poland).
More: http://umbrellaproject.eu/participation-day-2019-and-umbrella-mid-term-conference-in-gdansk/