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Project
title
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East-West
Spatial Planning Forum for sustainable development in
the Baltic Sea Region
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Priority
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3.0
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Lead
applicant
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Telemark
Country Council (BSR INterreg III B Seed Money)
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Contact
person
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Elena
Belova
Irina
Karelina
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Organisation
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International
Center for Social and Economic Research Leontief
Center
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E-mail
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belova@leontief.spb.su
karelina@leontief.spb.su
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Homepage
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http://www.leontief.net
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Address
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6
Antonenko per., 190000-St.Petersburg, Russia
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Phone
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+7812
319-96-26
+7812
314-41-19
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Mobil
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Fax
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+7812
319-98-14
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Thematic
key words
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Macroregional
strategies, Institution building, ICT
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Project
description
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BSR
is our common home. So we have to co-operate to make
it better and more suitable. But this co-operation at
least in spatial planning is still uneven. Russian and
Belarussian partners are put aside. But vice versa the
Russian Baltic neighbours hardly know how to
co-operate with us, how to use our potential for the
sake of the BSR development. So EAST West link should
be strengthened for benefit of both sides. This is the
core of the project. The project is composed of the
TACIS and INTERREG part. Under the TACIS part, the
focus is placed on training and capacity building in
Russia, strengthening dialogue between Russian civil
servants and regional decision-makers (politicians).
The West practitioner will share with the EAST
politicians and civil servants how to use spatial
planning and transnational co-operation for solving
internal Russian problems. The final result will be
creation in the North West Russia the excellence
centers capable to bring Russia to the future INTERREG
projects.The main idea for the INTERREG part is to
identify and develop future partnerships between E-BSR
and W-BSR regions for new INTERREG III B projects, and
to provide 'centres of excellence' in Russia
established within TACIS project with the possibility
to develop their agenda, using the method 'learning by
doing'.
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Central
objectives
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The
East-West Forum project is aimed to stimulate a
dialogue between BSR countries and North-West Regions
of Russia and to develop effective institution
framework conditions by: ·Providing an exchange of
experience in strategic planning and policy making
& stimulating partnerships between Russian and BSR
experts;
·Enhancing professional links, networking among
Russian & foreign (BSR) participants and their
institutions, exploiting advanced Internet
technologies for better spatial integration;
·Establishing excellence centres capable to bring
Russia to the INTERREG projects strengthening
Institutional Framework for transnational cooperation
and sustainable BSR development
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Expected
benefits
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The
Nort-West local and regional politicians improved
their understanding about the usefulness of the
transnational developmental projects and
co-operation (in the BSR), West BSR actors
received the better access to the knowledge about
developmental problems of the Russian regions,
which in turn will help all BSR actors in regional
and national planning in their own countries
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Priority
areas of technical assistance and partnerships
identified for future projects; professional links,
networking among Russian and foreign participants,
resulting in numerous joint spatial development
projects carried on in the future to develop
entire BSR.
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North-West
excellence centres network established supporting
participation of the local and regional
governments from the NW Russia in implementation
of joint BSR projects
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Partners
found
already
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Finland;
Russia; Poland; Sweden; Norway
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Partners
searched
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EU:
Germany, Denmark, CEC: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
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Estimated
budget
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Interreg
III B – 500,000 Euro, Tacis CBC Programme –
200,000 Euro.
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Date
of submission
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05/2003
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