04.12.2020
Euregio Karelia 20th Anniversary Seminar 15.12. 9-12
Euregio Karelia's cooperation area and cooperation forum will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. To mark the anniversary, a webinar will be organised under the theme ‘The importance of regional cooperation in Finnish-Russian dialogue’. You can follow the seminar on the Zoom online platform and on YouTube.
Webinar time: Tuesday 15.12.2020 9-12
Webinar address: The link will be sent to those who have registered
Registrations: by 10 December at the following address: https://webropol.com/ep/euregiokarelia
Preliminary programme of the event
8:45 – 9:00
Opening a remote connection
9:00
Opening of the seminar, Timo Korhonen, Chairman of the Kainuu Regional Government
9:10
Greetings and Speech by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Pekka Haavisto, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland
9:30
Greetings and speech by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
9:50
Statement by the Republic of Karelia
Head of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov (tbc.)
10:00
Music and video greetings: young people's experiences of cross-border cooperation
Mixed choir of Madetoja High School of Music, headed by Johanna Kemppainen, Artistic Director of Madetoja High School of Music
Eyes adorable blue gray, by Jaakko Rugoyev
Jonne Siekkinen, abiturient
comments on cross-border cooperation in upper secondary schools
Let us protect nature, by Jaakko Rugoyev
Minea Niskala, vocals and Jonne Siekkinen, guitar
10:10
Euregio Karelia as a model in cross-border cooperation
Valeri Shljamin, Doctor of Economics and Business Administration, Trade Representative of the Russian Federation in Finland 2003-2017
10:25
Cross-border cooperation – part of a global peace policy
Tarja Cronberg, Doctor of Science (Technology and Commerce), Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Senior Research Fellow
10:40 - 11:00 Break
11:00
Experiences of Finnish-Russian cooperation
Arvo Tuominen, documentarist, journalist, writer
11:15
Karelia CBC programme as an enabler of cross-border cooperation
Marko Ruokangas, Programme Director, Karelia CBC
11:30 - 11:40
Examples of cross-border cooperation
Culture Open project
11:40 – 12:00
Final discussion and comments
Dmitry Rodionov, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of the Government of the Republic of Karelia (tbc.)
Jaana Rekolainen, Managing Director of the Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce
Viktor Svirskiy, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Industry of the Republic of Karelia
Juha Pylväs, Member of the Regional Government of Northern Ostrobothnia, Member of Parliament
Moderators are Tatiana Petrova and Jussi Huotari, Kainuu Regional Council
There will be interpretation at the event. Interpreters include Andrei Tsinovski and Evgeni Bogdanov.
During the event, the listeners' microphones and cameras are automatically muted, but you can participate in the event via a shared discussion forum.
The moderator raises questions and comments to the discussion according to the situation
