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moving out from the regions to bigger and nearby cities affect
all the peripheral regions of the South Baltic. For stopping
of this negative trend it is necessary to ameliorate for the
existing and future enterprises (SME:s) of the regions to be
able to develop their business by transnational cooperation
and competition, aroused from a larger market, with increased
integration as a very important bonus effect.
The project aims to give young people increased
influence and a possibility to contribute to the development
of the society they long for at home too. The regions must
also attract tourists, on a large scale and on the year around,
and investors. The strategy and practical work of marketing
the region must be completed in transnational cooperation
expanded to a geographically more linked area.
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project aims to stop
or diminish the out migration of the rural South Baltic
regions involved and become an interesting region up to date
with the development that makes young inhabitants stay in, and
move to, the region instead. To be able to obtain this,
the project must succeed in its object to increase the
influence on general development of the young population.
Besides, the small and medium sized enterprises of tourism,
transport, food and culture must be helped to find and develop
new markets. Therefore one of the main objectives is to
establish platforms where these SME:s could meet and find new
partners with whom they could develop successful business
ideas. The project must also develop a marketing strategy, to
use for the purpose to attract new investors. The project
partners aim to strengthen regional bonds and create a viable
modern economy centred on culture and tourism.
Besides
contributing to the economic growth, the goal of the
transnational cultural co-operation is also to affect the
European integration on a public level. The enlarged
integration is a very important goal in itself, and also
contributing to the realisation of another goal – more
interregional travelling. The project also sees a big
potential to be an example for other small macro regions with
similar weaknesses and strengths. The project aim to spread
the knowledge of Four Corners as a method of transnational
cooperation and regional development to two euro regions in
the candidate countries of the European Union.
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The
project will include overall planning of social, economical
and environmental development in the transnational cooperation.
The political planning will be more effective through the
establishment and work of a network of spatial planning. The
project will spread its benefits to neighbour areas and
include these in the cooperation. This will also make the area
more interesting from a tourist point of view. Accordingly an
enlarged area will widely ameliorate the possibility of SMEs
to get a profitable business and a higher economic growth. The
interregional travelling will augment thanks to the improved
accessibility and the increased knowledge and interest of the
neighbour regions resulting from the transnational cultural
cooperation. The young recommendations to the political
strategic level will affect the development and make more
young people stay in the region. Young people will learn more
about their neighbouring countries, about the European
community and European languages thanks to the school network.
The increased knowledge of the young people will, together
with the increased transnational cooperation of cultural
enterprises, improve the integration.
The
knowledge of the cooperation will be distributed to new
transnational assemblies in the EU candidate countries,
Kaliningrad and Belarus for affecting the ability of European
co-operation in a broad field of action of the involved
regions.
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