24.11.2020.

13:00h – 15:40h / local time

Draft Agenda

12.55 – 13.00 Registration and welcome
13.00 – 13.05 Introduction to the agenda and the team
13.05 – 13.10 Welcome speeches
- Mr Robertas Bružilas, Deputy Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, National Coordination for EUSBSR
- Mr Mantas Jurgutis, Deputy Mayor of Kaunas, President of the Union of the Baltic Cities

13.10 – 13.20  Networking (Part I)
Moderated by Mr Igor Jojkic, Union of the Baltic Cities
- The stakeholders’ presentations
- Experiences within the macro-regional strategies
- Expectations from the workshop
- Benefits from the strategy

13.20 - 14.00 Introduction of the EU strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (Part II)

- New action Plan for EUSBSR
Mr Robertas Bružilas, Deputy Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, National Coordination for EUSBSR  

- How do they work in practice and in what way can regional and local actors become involved?
- Why EU macro-regional strategies? What policy areas are included? What are the flagships?  
Mr Anders Bergström / PA Education / HA Capacity

A short break

14.10 – 14.25 Why cooperating macro-regionally? (Part III)
- Small Group work

14.25 – 15.00 Can EUSBSR bring you closer to financing? (Part IV)
The information about ERDF, ESF, Interreg, Erasmus + and Horizon Europe new programmes
Mr Igor Jojkic, Union of the Baltic Cities & Mr Marko Paunovic, Union of the Baltic Cities

15.00 – 15.30 Follow-up involvement (Part V)
15.30 - 15.40   Goodbye speeches and the “group photo”  
Moderated by Mr Igor Jojkic, Union of the Baltic Cities