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The value of Smart Specialisation strategy implementation through Regional Clusters in the North - Case Arctic Smartness
EWRC 2016 – LAPLAND
EAST AND NORTH FINLAND LOCAL EVENT
November 16-19, 2016
Venue: All sessions will be held in the premises of the University of Lapland
November 16 and morning session on November 17 held in Castrén-hall. November 17-19 split session will be held in different meeting rooms and participants will be allocated to the rooms according to their particular challenge group. Group facilitators will guide their groups to the venues.
Organisers:
Regional Council of Lapland and Regional Council of North Karelia. Owners of the Arctic Smartness Excellence ERDF project with its stakeholders
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Arrival of participants
Wednesday 16 November 2016
Arrival of participants
8:30 – 9:00
Registration and welcoming coffee, in front of Castrén-hall
9:00 – 12:30
ASE checkpoint meeting: Autumn checkpoint meeting and a workshop on the cluster development work in the north, Castrén-hall
Welcoming words Mika Riipi, Regional Mayor of Lapland.
Checkpoint meeting to monitor the actions and progress of the Arctic Smartness Concept work implemented in Lapland. The fourth stage of the implementation of the regional S3 is under way, coordinated by the Arctic Smartness Excellence ERDF project. All seven regions of East and North Finland join the co-organised checkpoint meeting and are able to make their peer-review processes with the Arctic Smartness Excellence actions. (working language Finnish)
12:00 – 13:00
Light buffet Lunch served
13:00 – 17:00
Arctic S3 Governance. Session carried out in English as NSPA and other Regions are interested in sharing and learning of the practical implementation of Regional Smart Specialisation Strategy.
Starting Plenary Presentation; Magnus Jörgel and Jonas Klevhaug: Skåne Innovation and S3 management and implementation
Caroline Cohen: Implementing Smart Specialisation Strategies:
A Handbook
Harri Malinen, Project Manager, Arctic Smartness Excellence
Role of the RDI in the development of the S3 in the sparsely populate regions: Driving innovation towards to market and society; tackling the challenge S3 and related regional innovation strategies that interlink research, development and innovation with local industry and the public sector.
Informal and innovative Peer review session for all attendees to join follow the up of the Arctic Smartness Excellence checkpoint meeting. This interactive peer-review session on S3 implementation will cover the topics; good S3 governance, processes that matter, good practices and of course challenges and solutions. Arctic Smartness Excellence Clusters and six other East and North Finland Regions are presenting their actions.
In addition other participants are encouraged to give a short presentation (5 minutes, 5 slides) or just join the discussion.
Split Session: Regional Bioenergy: Lapland is leading an initiative called “Regional Bioenergy’’ under the Smart Specialisation Energy Platform (SPEnergy) along with the rest of East and North Finland. The session will serve as a follow-up meeting for the Bioenergy Cluster collaboration launched in Brussels on 1 June 2016 during the workshops in Smart Regions Conference. Chair, Ilari Havukainen, Regional Council of Lapland.
Creative Coffee Break in the middle
18:00 – 21:00
Informal reception and dinner, Pertonella restaurant, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland
22:30 – 01:00
If weather permits and the Sun is active, Aurora Borealis walk organised, separate registration required. Dress warm!
Thursday 17 November 2016
8:30 – 9:00
Registration and welcoming coffee in front of Castrén-hall
09:00 – 11:00
Arctic Innovation Camp Opening Plenary, Castrén-hall
Mika Riipi, Regional Mayor of Lapland, Chair for the morning plenary: Welcoming words
JRC representatives presentations:
Caroline Cohen, S3 Platform, Sevilla, Spain
Monitoring S3: a result-oriented approach to regional development
Ine Vandecasteele and Claudia Baranzelli, Territorial Modelling, Ispra, Italy
Contributing to Territorial Development Strategies: the LUISA Approach.
Kari Aalto, Director of the East-North Finland EU office, Brussels
Main findings of the OECD's ongoing study of the 14 European regions in the Northern Sparsely Populated Areas (NSPA) and the OECD group's annual regional outlook. The results of the study will be presented in Paris in early November 2016.
Magnus Jörgel: Skåne Smart Specialization- the journey into the unknown and beyond
Päivi Ekdahl and Kristiina Jokelainen, Regional Council of Lapland
Good governance - essential part of the S3 implementation.
Mika Riipi, Closing remarks
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
End of Local event programme and start of
Arctic Innovation Camp
11:30 – 12:00
Introduction to the Arctic Innovation Camp 2016
Hank Kune, Educore, Magnus Jörgel, Kristiina Jokelainen
12:00 – 13:00
Parallel working groups
Parallel working groups start to work: Meeting the group, exploring the challenge
13:00 – 13:45
Lunch
13:45 – 15:30
Parallel working groups
Deepening understanding, discovering the opportunities and generating first ideas.
15:30 – 17:00
Parallel working groups
Enriching the ideas, converging ideas to create initial prototypes
17:00 – 17:30
Plenary closing: Moving to the next stage, Castrén-hall
17:30 – 22:30
Experience Lapland (separate venue; buss transport, dress warm)
18:00 – 18:45
Walk & talk conversations and talks by the fire, fuelled by hand made sausages and Local Brew
New insights in a new location: testing ideas with other participants
Lappish Dinner
22:30 – 01:00
If weather permits and the Sun is active, Aurora Borealis walk organised, separate registration required. Dress warm!
Friday 18 November 2016
09:00 – 09:30
Arctic Innovation Camp wake up and creativity check
Learnings from the previous day & start-up of the new day
09:30 – 12:30
Parallel working groups
Revisiting opportunities and adding new insights and thinking ahead to plan real-world prototyping
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 14:30
Parallel working groups
Realisation - completing the proposals – planning the prototyping, and concretisation of results and road-mapping
Preparing your visit to Santa Claus: formulate best wishes for next 6 weeks, next 6 months (January 2017 until the Arctic Stakeholder Forum), the next 6 years
14:30 – 17:00
Transfer to the Arctic Circle to meet Santa Claus.
Prepare your Christmas card mail address lists as you can send the Season Greetings from Santa Claus Postal Office with special stamp.
Groups continue working when not meeting Santa Claus
17:00 – 17:30
Transfer back to the city/hotels
17:30 -
Groups continue working + organise their own dinner
22:30 – 01:00
If weather permits and the Sun is active, Aurora Borealis walk organised, separate registration required. Dress warm!
Saturday 19 November 2016
09:00 – 09:15
Arctic Innovation Camp wake up and reality check, Castrén-hall
Learnings from the previous day and the final run… the work is just starting
09:20 – 10:30
Parallel working groups
Preparing and finalising the interactive presentations
10:30 – 12:00
Peer –to-peer presentations of results (between parallel working groups)
12:00 – 12:30
2nd Peer Review session with Parallel working groups
12:00 – 12:30
Closing session Arctic Innovation Camp 2016, Castrén-hall
The ways forward: Challenge owners commitments
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch and departures