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Nordic Council of Ministers,
Information Office in St. Petersburg
Knowledge Building and Networking
Program and Green Growth Arena
Project
Yana Bocharova, Adviser
Svetlana Goryunova, Adviser
Malmö, 18 April 2012
Nordic cooperation
Nordic Council of Ministers
Countries
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway,
Sweden and the three autonomous
territories: the Faroe islands, Greenland
and Åland islands.
7 languages, 25 million people
Official Nordic co-operation:
• The Nordic Council – the interparliamentary forum since 1952
• The Nordic Council of Ministers –
the inter-governmental body since
1971
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The Presidency
Nordic Council of Ministers
The Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers
lasts a year and rotates between the states
2012: Norway “The Welfare State in a Nordic
Perspective”
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Nordic Council of Ministers
in Russia
Nordic Council of Ministers
• Information Office in St. Petersburg
(since 1995).
Contact centres:
- Arkhangelsk
- Murmansk
- Petrozavodsk
• Information Office in Kaliningrad
(since 2006)
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Knowledge building and
Networking programme
Nordic Council of Ministers
Main funding instrument for cooperation
Partnership – at least two Nordic countries
Russian/Nordic co-financing, minimum 30%
Five main areas:
• Public administration
• Research and education
• Economic development
• Civil society
• Practice at the Nordic institutions
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Project overview 2011-2012
Nordic Look
• Creative industries
• Festival management
• Nordic Weeks
•Studia Nordica
•Cross cultural
communication
•
Intellectual Property
Rights
• Anti-corruption
• Labour market
• Certification & standards
• Municipal cooperation
• Entrepreneurs: education,
knowledge, innovation
• Work-life balance
•
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Cultural
diversity
Welfare &
equality
Economy,
business,
working life
Green
Growth
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• Combating human
trafficking
• Welfare technology
• HIV/AIDS
• Health economics
• NGO & media
cooperation
• Good governance & civil
society
Environment wastesorting
• Water management
• Climate change
• Universal design
(architectural)
• Urban planning
• Scientific green movies
• Green growth arena
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Climate, environment &
energy, green growth
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• Nordic-Russian Green Growth Arena
• KBNP Project: Waste-sorting
management (Petrozavodsk)
• Climate change conference,
Arkhangelsk, June 2011, KBNP project
prepared
• Northern Dimension Environmental
Partnership
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Проект по сортировке твердых
бытовых отходов
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• Информационная работа с
жителями пилотных ТСЖ
• Экономический эффект:
снижение платы за ЖКХ
• В рамках нового проекта
W.A.S.T.E.: экологическое
воспитание в школах,
открытие Инфо-центра
• Административный
партнер: ШведскоКарельский
Информационный БизнесЦентр
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Стратегии адаптации к изменению
климата: опыт Северных стран
•
Международная конференция: Изменение
климата и управление водными ресурсами
– решения в Баренцевом регионе, июнь
2011, Архангельск
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2011-2013. Проект в рамках Программы
повышения компетентности: партнеры из
Архангельской, Мурманской областей и
Карелии
•
11 ноября: День климата в Северных
странах (информационные кампании для
молодежи)
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Продвижение экомаркировки
«Северный лебедь»
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• Экологическая маркировка товаров и услуг
• Партнеры: офисы СМСС, Совет по экомаркировке
Северных стран, профильные организации
Исследование осведомленности и
интереса
Брошюра «Выход на рынки Северных
стран»
Семинары в Санкт-Петербурге и
странах Балтии
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Green Growth Arena
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• 2011-2013. Nordic-Russian Green Growth
Arena
- Green planning instruments and strategies
- Nordic-Russian green routes
- Sustainable business hubs
• Participants from Sweden, Norway,
Denmark, Finland. In NW Russia – St
Petersburg, Karelia, Leningrad, Pskov,
Kaliningrad, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk
regions
• Administrative partner: Leontief centre, St
Petersburg
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Green Growth Arena
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• Purpose: to implement green growth development principles in NW
Russian regions and municipalities based on Nordic experience
• Goals:
1. A networking and knowledge sharing platform is
established
2. The capacity of authorities, municipalities,
institutions, NGOs and businesses in NW Russia is
strengthened, and cross-border and cross sectoral
partnerships are developed
3. The ideas, terminology, tools and platforms are
identified and developed.
4. Pilot models to accelerate green growth are
introduced and their implementation is started in NW
Russia based on the Nordic green growth values
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Green Growth Arena
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Pilot models:
Sub-project 1: Materials are generated for development of at least
one local green growth strategy, feasibility studies are encouraged
Sub-project 2: at least one pilot Greenway / Green Route model for
sustainable eco-tourism and green development of territories is
developed and started to be implemented.
Sub-project 3: at least one pilot model of a sustainable business
hub with focus on cleantech is developed and steps towards its
implementation are taken. Cleantech cluster initiatives can be
proposed as a pilot for participating NW Russian regions can be
proposed. The model should incorporate plans for the use of Nordic
consultancies and know-how in the implementation stage.
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Green Growth Arena
schedule
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Activity 1. Preparatory stage
Activity 2. Launching conference in Malmö,
18-19 April 2012
Activity 3. Project’s webpage, May 2012
Activity 4. Preparatory policy dialogue-seminars and study visits in NW
Russia (Petrozavodsk, Pskov, Vyborg), 2012
Activity 5. Nordic Green Day during XI Annual Strategic Planning Leaders
Forum in St Petersburg, October 2012
Activity 6. Capacity building study visits to Nordic countries, 2012-2013
Activity 7. Design and development of models and pilot project initiatives
and first steps towards their practical implementation, 2012-2013
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Green Growth Arena
schedule
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Activity 8. Publication under working title
“Green Growth pioneers in NW Russia”,
2012-2014
Activity 9. Final Nordic Green Day during XII
Annual Strategic Planning Leaders Forum in
St Petersburg incl. presentation of the
coming publication , October 2013
Activity 10. Evaluation and reporting incl.
drafting of feasible plans for pilot projects’
replication, November 2013-April 2014
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