1. Globalisation and localisation: integration of BSR into the global and EU networks, new challenges for regional development

PLENARY KEYNOTE 1: Prof. Peter Nijkamp & Caroline Rodenburg (Department of Spatial Economics, Free University) "Mainports and gateways in Europe: a comparative contrast analysis for the Nordic Area"
PLENARY KEYNOTE 2: Prof. Ricardo Cappellin (Faculty of Economics, University of Rome "Tor Vergata") "The transformation of local production systems: international networking and territorial competitiveness"
PLENARY KEYNOTE 3: Mr. Bo Forström & Mr. Ulf Forsman (Turku Technology Center) "Urban networking in the Baltic Sea Area – the role of media objects in a learning process"
PLENARY CHAIR: Prof. Karin Peschel, Instutute for Regional Studies, University of Kiel


2. Rethinking the national and EU regional policies for the Baltic Sea Region, integration and co-operation within the Baltic Sea Region

PLENARY KEYNOTE 1: Prof. John Bachtler (Euro-pe-an Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde) "EU enlargement, cohesion and regional policy"
PLENARY KEYNOTE 2: Dr. Göran Hallin (NORDREGIO) "The concept of partnership in regional policy: the integration of structural funds in Nordic Regional Policy"
PLENARY KEYNOTE 3: Mr. Jan Maarten de Vet (MA) (The Netherlands Economic Institute) "EU enlargement and preaccession: views from the CEECs"
PLENARY CHAIR: Dr. Jan Monnesland, Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research


3. Long term planning and cross-border co-operation in the context of growing environmental concern, social and cultural convergence

PLENARY KEYNOTE 1: Prof. Anssi Paasi (Department of Geography, University of Oulu) "The role of identities and boundaries in the contemporary world"
PLENARY KEYNOTE 2: Dr. Michael Schack, Dr. Christian Frederiksen, Dr. Christian Hansen (Danish Institute of Border Region Studies) "Two nordic border regions"
PLENARY KEYNOTE 3: Mr. Jüri Lass (Planning Department of the Ministry of Environment of Estonia) "County planning as engine for local development"
PLENARY CHAIR: Dr. Erik Terk, Estonian Institute for Futures Studies


4. Post-industrial and post-socialist restructuring: new spatial and economic patterns

PLENARY KEYNOTE 1: Prof. Juan R. Quadrado Roura (Department of Applied Economics, University of Alcala) "Regional productivity patterns in Europe. From convergence to heterogeneity"
PLENARY KEYNOTE 2: Prof. Philip Cooke (Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Science, University of Cardiff) "Regional Innovation Systems"
PLENARY KEYNOTE 3: Prof. Börje Johansson (Jönköping International Business School) "Regional differentials and economic milieu in central and peripheral municipalities"
PLENARY CHAIR: Prof. Sven Illeris, Department of Geography and Socio-economic Analysis, University of Roskilde


5. Demography, employment and social issues in the BSR, regional development institutions, SME-s and new employment generation

PLENARY KEYNOTE 1: Prof. Örjan Sjöberg (Stockholm School of Economics) "Coming to grips with the transition: why we should not put unlimited trust in statistics"
PLENARY KEYNOTE 2: Dr. Jan W. Owsinski and Dr. Andrzej Kaluszko (The Interfaces Institute) "Political and societal gradients across space vs. co-operation and competition"
PLENARY KEYNOTE 3: Prof. David Smallbone (Centre for Enterprisse and Economic Development Research of the Middlesex University Business School) "SME, employment generation and regional development"
PLENARY CHAIR: Prof. Olli Kultalahti, Department of Regional Studies, University of Tampere


PARALLEL PAPER SESSIONS

Participants, Papers and Chairs


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1

14.00   SESSION A1 - Labour and migration issues In the BSR
Lars Olof Persson - "Labour mobility and metropolitan dynamics"
Raul Eamets - "Comparative employment structures and unemployment in Eastern Europe"
Örjan Sjöberg & Tiit Tammaru - "Economic transition and urbanisation in Estonia, 1989-1996: the vexing issue of internal migration"
CHAIR: Mats Johansson

14.00   SESSION S1 - EU, its Baltic and Nordic Dimension
Kaisa Lähteenmäki-Smith - "Adaptation or empowerment: scenarios for the subnational regional level of the Baltic Sea region in the European Union"
Anna Kisiel-Lowczyc - "North-eastern enlargement of the european union characteristics, present condition, prospects"
Jan Henrik Nilsson - "Continuity and change, perspectives on Baltic transformation"
CHAIR: Jan Maarten de Vet

14.00   SESSION U1 - Hard infrastructures in the Baltic Sea Region
Imbdad Hussain, Niklas Nordman, Lars Westin - "Economies of scale, improvement in transport infrastructure, benefits to traffic and the total welfare gains due to the improvement"
Henryk Cwiklinski - "New institutional arragements for regional development in Poland: their impact on local economies and interregional cooperation"
Mihkel Veiderma - "Development of the Baltic Sea region gas market"
CHAIR: Lars Lundqvist


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2

11.30   SESSION A2 - Baltic trade and integration
Karin Peschel - "The Baltic Sea region - an economically highly integrated area in future"
Andreas P. Cornett, Soren Peter Iversen - "The Baltic States in a European and Baltic perspective"
Tiiu Paas, Horst Todt, Urmas Varblane - "Alternative scenarios for the development of trade flows in Baltic Sea region"
CHAIR: Juan R. Quadrado Roura

11.30   SESSION S2 - Regional Policy in the CEEC
Modrite Luse - "Current differences in development of territories in Latvia"
Jacek Zaucha - "INTERREG II C in the Baltic Sea region"
Jussi S. Jauhiainen, Priidu Ristkok - "Development of regional policy in Estonia"
CHAIR: John Bachtler

11.30   SESSION U2 - Environment, economy, men
Üllas Ehrlich, Kalju Habicht - "A non-market value component of biodiversity in the structure of life quality and Estonia`s"
Aleksandras V. Rutkauskas - "Evaluation of business project impact on regional economical-ecological sustainability"
Jolita Ramanauskiene - "Growing environmental concerns in Lithuania"
CHAIR: Jüri Lass

16.00   SESSION A3 - Science, IT, institutions and regional development
Gerd Schienstock, Mika Kautonen, Petri Roponen - "Regional innovation systems: eight European regions in comparison"
David Rylander - "Globalism and regionalism in the Baltic Sea region. The role of internet services in the interplay"
Nazmun Nahar, Najmul Huda, Jaak Tepandi - "Globalisation of enterprises through electronic promotion"
CHAIR: Philip Cooke

16.00   SESSION S3 - Globalisation and regionalisation within the Baltic Sea
Christopher J. Smith - "Globalization, regionalization and changing state forms: Cox`s thesis and the Baltic states"
Heikki Eskelinen, Merja Kokkonen - "Getting on terms with the European regime: programmes of transborder cooperation on the Finnish-Russian border"
Oleg Reut - "The Baltic Sub-regionalisation: The Geo-politics and Security Agenda"
CHAIR: Anssi Paasi

16.00   SESSION U3 - So common and so different - the Baltic Sea Region
Jesper Manniche - "State-of-the-art of Baltic social science research in Scandinavian countries and Germany"
Ott Kurs - "Estonia as a part of the Baltic Sea Region (BSR)"
Jurgis Vanagas - "Concept of urbanized corridors and networking of Baltic Sea region"
CHAIR: Jan W. Owsinski

16.00   SESSION 3R - Sustainability: policy and action
Remigijus Ciegis - "Alternative economics and the concept of sustainable development"
Dalia Streimikiene - "Environmental issues of energy sector development in Lithuania. Harmonisation with EC environmental policy requirements"
Olof Stjernstrom, Mats Nilsson - "Paper recycling in Estonia and the Baltic region"
Zaiga Krisjane - "The quality of life, environment and human health assessment in Latvia"
CHAIR: Aleksandras Rutkauskas

18.30   SESSION S4 - Changing post-socialist spatial patterns
Jörg Pohlan - "Spatial structures and migration processes in the districts of Latvia"
Raigo Ernits - "Production systems in Estonian mono-functional settlements: the institutional approach"
Arthur Kuik
CHAIR: Jan H. Nilsson

18.30   SESSION U4 - Urban-rural inteplay in the Baltic regions
Katrina Schwartz - "Globalization, identity, and the meanings of land: the battle over "sustainable" forestry in post-Soviet Latvia"
Mait Rei - "Shrinking" urban aglomerations – the rise of media and informational industries and their impact producing new territorial and spatial scales and images"
Andreas Uhrlau
CHAIR: Jussi Jauhiainen

18.30   SESSION R4 - latecomers
CHAIR: Jaak Kliimask


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3

11.30   SESSION A5 - SME-s and low tech industries in the Baltic States
David Smallbone, Urve Venesaar - "Internationalisation processes and SME development in the Baltic states: some recent evidence and key policy issues"
Stuart Thorne - "Small and Medium Sized Food Manufacturers and Producers in Estonia"
Maija Rozite - "Role of the tourism in development of Riga"
CHAIR: Riccardo Cappelin

11.30   SESSION S5 - New mobility patterns, new flows
Lars Olof Persson - "Emerging mobility patterns in the Baltic capital triangle (BCT)"
Sven Illeris - "Outsourcing of clothing industry from Danish to East Baltic firms: Consequensces in Denmark and East Baltic countries"
Elena Lapsina - "The perspective of the new regional investment policy in Russia and Eastern Europe: Business-Ecological Parks (BEP)"
CHAIR: Bo Forström

11.30   SESSION U5 - Regional finances - global markets
Prof. Aleksandras V. Rutkauskas - "Globalization and localication - the main contrasting features of regional financial system development"
Daiva Brukstaitiene - "Targeted development of business evaluation system for European integration"
Elena Lapsina, Khachik Ambarian, Roman Melnikov - "Investment decisions for the optimization portfolio`s risks in Russian financial market"
Elena Lapsina, Alla Alexeyeva, Eugene Sayapov - "Developing new technological capabilities for the banking investment services in the European marketplace"
Elena Lapsina, Roman Melnikov, Ekaterina Melnikova - "Evaluation and rating risks for the banking contractors"
CHAIR: Göran Hallin


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4

10.00   Work at sections

5 parallel workshops (by themes) to define conference highlights
Meeting of the International Editorial board
Meeting of the Baltic Section of the Regional Science Association in collaboration with NS RSA