Innovation at the regional level – the key to economic growth in the Baltic Sea region

We launched the 'Communicating entrepreneurship in the Baltic Sea region' project, designed to promote creative business and intercultural understanding and thus strengthen cooperation within the Baltic Sea region and stimulate joint, outward-bound communication, in 2008. The project can be seen as a preparatory 'pilot study' into the cultural differences and similarities in the region that both help and hinder enterprise.

After a series of seminars, conferences, summer courses and student exchanges, the project will come to an end in autumn 2010. To summarise the results and discuss ways forward in terms of cooperation, we (in association with the Narva and Pärnu College of the University of Tartu, the Viljandi Culture Academy of the University of Tartu and the Peipsi Centre for Transboundary Cooperation) will be organising a conference entitled 'Innovation at the regional level – the key to economic growth in the Baltic Sea region'.

The conference will be held at the Narva College of the University of Tartu. Click here to view the invitation to the conference and here to find out more about the programme.

NB! Participation in the conference is only possible by being pre-registered (latest August 23).

Find out more about the project here.

Contact: Madis Kanarbik, Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Estonia, head of Tartu branch: telephone +372 742 36 25; GSM +372 50 46 570 or e-mail: madis.kanarbik (at) norden.ee.