Working process

1
Working process milestone 1

• Survey of key conditions in selected industrial
  sectors
• Natural resorurces
• Available infrastructure
• Facilities and human resources

2
Working process - milestone 1

• Identify key industrial actors

3
Working process milestone 1

• SWOT analysis of the regions industrial
  development potential
• Priority list of industrial actors, industrial
  projects and institutions/agencies suitable for
  industrial cross-border cooperation

4
Working process milestone 1 - 5

• 3 parallell working groups
• Forestry Industrial Complex
• Mining Industrial Complex
• Offshore Oil Gas
• with minimum 2 Russian regions in each group and
  one region from each Nordic country in each group

5
Working process milestones 1- 5

• Expert meetings (milestone 1-5)
• Industrial partnership meetings (milestone 2-5)

6
Working process milestone 1-5

• Joint efforts (covering FIC, MIC, Offshore Oil
  Gas)
• Data collection
• Information sharing
• Co-ordination of activities
• Reporting to Interreg

7
Working process milestone 2

• Dialogue with presumptive industrial partners
  within each sector
• Information
• Reactions

8
Working process milestone 2

• Outputs
• Sub-project groups of industrial actors (22)
• Defined area of cooperation
• Defined purpose and target of cooperation

9
Working process milestone 3

• Supporting the sub-project groups
• Facilitiating internal communication
• Facilitiating contacts with relevant external
  actors

10
Working process milestone 3

• Outputs
• Relevant information compiled and made available
  to all relevant parties with regard to the
  sub-project

11
Working process milestone 4

• Faciltitating communication between internal and
  external decision-makers of relevance to the
  sub-projects

12
Working process milestone 4

• Outputs
• Letter of Intent signed
• Agreement between key partners regarding
  implementation
• SWOT-analysis regarding industrial cross-border
  cooperation (to be reported to WP 1)

13
Working process milestone 5

• Support of sub-project implementation
• Advisory meetings

14
Working process milestone 5

• Outputs
• Implementation of sub-projects
• SWOT-analysis re the regional industrial
  potential and development
• Strategic programme for industrial cross-border
  co-operation ( to be reported to WP 1)

15
Industrial cross-border cooperation

• Major industrial partners form the core of the
  sub-projects
• SMEs are invited to join as sub-suppliers or
  sub-contactors
• Special attention is given the long-term need to
  improve the service sector

16
Industrial cross-border cooperation

• Improve the competitivesness of the regions
  industry in the
• Forest Industrial Complex
• Mining Industrial Complex
• Offshore Oil Gas

17
Industrial cross-border cooperation

• Contribute to a development strategy and action
  plan of the Barents Region

18
Project organisation
Responsible Participating Regions Kajani Troms/AC
2 Ru BD Lapland/Nordland 2
Ru Finnmark Oulo/BD 2 Ru Troms
Oulo/AC 2 Ru Nordland Kajani/BD 2
Ru Lapland Finnmark/AC 2 Ru Oulo
Troms/BD 2 Ru

WP 2 Forest WP 2 Mining/Metals WP 2
Energy/Offshore WP 3 Higher education WP 4
Environment Water WP 4 Environment Bio WP 5
Logistics