Opening speech on behalf of Ilmar Reepalu, Mayor of Malmö:
Katarina Pelin, Director of Environment, City of Malmö
Malmö Green Transformation Arena

Introduction session:

• Mats Ekenger, Senior Adviser, Nordic Council of Ministers
  Green Growth as a Priority of the Nordic Council of Ministers
  
  
• Yana Bocharova, Svetlana Goryunova, Advisers, Information Office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in St. Petersburg
  Knowledge Building and Networking Program and Green Growth Arena Project
  
  
• Birger Emanuelsson, Malmö’s Nature School
  To learn the region we are in: ways to explore Öresund. Nature Boat Project
  
  
• Elena Belova, Leontief Centre, St Petersburg
  Nordic – Russian Green Growth Arena

Session 1. GREEN PLANNING INSTRUMENTS AND STRATEGIES:

• Thomas Winther, Innogate, Denmark
  Green Growth in the Baltic Sea Region
  
  
• Inge Aarhus, Director, Environment Lillehammer, Norway
  Towards a Greener  Future
  
  
• Gunnar Olav Furu, Sunndal municipality, Norway
  Urban development in a climate perspective
  
  

• Tatyana Timofeeva, Chief of Department of the Strategic Analysis and the Forecast of the Committee of the Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade of St Petersburg City Administration
  St Petersburg – Today & Tomorrow

• Dmitry Bistrov, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade of Pskov Region
  Pskov Region:Experience and Possibilities 

Session 2. NORDIC-RUSSIAN GREEN ROUTES:

• Ewa Figorska & Rafal Serafin, Polish Environmental Partnership Foundation
  EU Greenway Experience and Networks
  Malmö Sustainable Tourism, tbc.
  
  
• Mikko Jokinen, Director of Environmental Affairs of City of Turku
  Green Boating and Green Yacht Harbors
  
  
• Vsevolod Belikov, Chairman of the Council of Municipalities of Saint-Petersburg
  Council of Municipalities of Saint-Petersburg
  
  
• Alexander Titov, Chairman of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  Role of Science in Promoting The Sustainable Development of Northern Regions (Example of The Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences)
  
  
• Semen Gordyshevskiy, Chairman of the Saint-Petersburg Ecological Union
  Russian-Finnish Regional Project in Environmental Protection and Awareness
  
  
• Rebecca Wishmann, European University in St Petersburg, Art History Department
  Land Art. Environmental Imagery and Activism (1960-2012)
  

Session 3.  SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS HUBS: CLEANTECH CLUSTER NETWORKS AND RESOURCES:

• Mats Jonsson, Senior Adviser, Sustainable Business Hub (SBHUB), Malmö
  SBHUB, Its Aim and Activities. SymbioCity Concept
  
  
• Jenny Åström,  Sustainable Business Hub, Malmö
  W2R, Waste Management on Export
  
  
• Johan Strandberg, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Stockholm
  Cleantech for Growth
  
  
• Olga Borisenko,  Deputy Chairman of the  Committee for Industrial Development, Environment and Nature of Murmansk Region
  Green Projects of the Murmansk Region
  
  
• Vladimir Norkin, Chairman of the  Committee for Economic Development and Forecasting of  Gatchina Municipal District Administration, Leningrad Region
  Gatchina Municipal District 
  
  
• Alexander Gusakov, Director of Centre for Technology Transfer and Cluster Development, Northern (Arctic) Federal University n. a. Mikhail Lomonosov, Archangelsk Region
  Centre for Technology Transfer and Cluster Development, Northern (Arctic) Federal University n. a. Mikhail Lomonosov
  
  
• Marina Lebedeva, Svetlana Makarova, Ust-Luga Company JSC
  Complex Development of Ust-luga Seaport and Adjacent Territory
  
  
• Presentation of Alnarp and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  Concept for City Culture

Visit to Helsingborg:

• Anneli Gille, Environmental Strategy Coordinator
  Strategic Environmental Work in the City of Helsingborg
  
  
• Jessica Engvall, Head of Communication, H+
  The Most Exciting Urban Renewal Project in Sweden
  
  
• Karolina Nilsen, Mattias Alfredsson
  Mobility Management Helsingborg
  
  
• Sofie Karlsborn, Former Project Coordinator, H+
  The EVAA Project – Part of a Sustainable
  
  
• Om Miljöverkstaden

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