Belarus

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BALTIC SEA TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION RU
PERSPECTIVE
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huania Norway Poland Russia Sweden
Irina Karelina Leontief Centre Director
General, BSR PROGRAMME MONITORING COMMITTEE
MEMBER
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• Baltic Sea Region Strategic for EU-RUSSIA
  Cooperation
• 8 EU Member States Denmark, Estonia,
• Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden,
• northern parts of Germany
• Norway
• NORTH-WEST REGIONS OF RUSSIA
• Belarus
• 100 million inhabitants
• 11 languages

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• How transnational cooperation in the Baltic Sea
  has been developing?
• Involvement of Russia in transnational
  cooperation in the Baltic Sea
• Region is changing depending on the available
  instruments
• BSR INTERREG II C 45 PROJECTS/15 with
  participation of RU PARTNERS mainly as observers
• BSR INTERREG IIIB NEIGHBOURHOOD PROGRAMME
  2000-2006 129 PROJECTS /78 with participation of
  RU PARTNERS integrating two different political
  agendas and financing instruments of ERDF and
  TACIS CBC
• BALTIC SEA REGION PROGRAMME 2007-2013 Russian
  organisations participate in 48 projects out of
  65 approved projects in three calls in the status
  of associated organisations without ENPI funding

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• BSR INTERREG IIIB NEIGHBOURHOOD PROGRAMME
  2000-2006 fully demonstrated the benefits from
  both EU and non-EU countries
• 129 projects, 78 with participation of Russian
  partners,
• 29 projects with external TACIS funding
• 3000 partners from Baltic regions, including 224
  Russian Partners

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• BSR INTERREG III B PROGRAMME 2000 2006
• Russian regional and local authorities - leaders
  among Russian partners

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• BSR INTERREG III B PROGRAMME 2000 2006
  Benefits from both EU and non-EU countries
• strengthen the grass-root involvement of Russia
  in the Baltic problems and issues,
• better tackle the East-West divide and create
  better climate among the citizens of North-West
  Russia towards EU enlargement
• bring new economic stimuli to the development of
  the North West part of Russia thanks to
  increasing face to face international contacts at
  local and regional level in the framework of
  concrete project,
• encourage Russian regional and local
  decision-makers to change their developmental
  patterns and behaviors to the more
  entrepreneurial ones (orientation towards
  financial engineering, inventing/conceptualizing
  and building of transnational projects),
• ensure involvement of NW Russia in the economic
  and social development of the BSR,
• contribute to better implementation of the
  Northern Dimension Action Programme.

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BALTIC SEA REGION PROGRAMME 2007-2013
Priorities and quality focus
Priority 1. Fostering innovations RU
CONTRIBUTION CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
Priority 3. Baltic Sea as a common resource
To make the Baltic Sea region an attractive
place to invest, work and live in
Priority 4. Attractive and competitive cities and
regions RU CONTRIBUTION SOCIAL AGENDA
Priority 2. External and internal accessibility
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• BALTIC SEA REGION PROGRAMME 2007-2013
• The first call for proposals (25 February 30
  May 2008)
• 84 applications out of 110 involved Russian
  actors that requested in total 31.12 million EUR!
• 24 approved projects , including 19 with RU
  participation
• 48 out of 65 projects approved in three calls
  attract RUSSIAN ACTORS to their partnerships as
  associated organizations.
• Russian organisations demonstrated high
  interest in participation in joint transnational
  cooperation projects in the Baltic Sea Region,
  even with no funding available for their
  participation.

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• ALL RUSSIA STRATEGIC PLANNING LEADERS FORUM
• BSR Transnational Cooperation the key Action of
  the Forum International Agenda since 2001
• The participants of the BSR FORUM roundtable
  (which are federal, regional and local
  authorities, NGO, academia) expressed their big
  concern that Russia did not join the Baltic Sea
  Region Programme
• The participants of the BSR roundtable recommend
  to the Government of Russia to take an active
  role and undertake practical steps for
  reestablishment of the partner status of Russian
  organisations in the Baltic Sea Region programme
  and start negotiation process for the future
  programming period

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BALTIC SEA POLICY-DIALOGUE SEMINAR focused on
realization of EU Baltic Sea Strategy, European
Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI),
results and perspectives of BSR Programme
2007-2013 IV INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLE ON
EUROPEAN COOPERATION FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
devoted to the celebration of the 40 years of
Association of European Border Regions (AEBR).
GREENING CITIES AND REGIONS session with
presentation of best international practices and
Green Growth regional and local policies ,
cooperation projects for sustainable development
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