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May 2008
3rd Innovation Conference Munich
Event: This conference is a follow up event to the conferences held in s‚Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 2007, and Stockholm, Sweden, 2006. The aim of this series of conferences is to foster innovation in the participating regions and to improve regional innovation policies by collaborating and sharing knowledge and experience throughout the regions.

The over 100 participants of the Innovation Society Conferences represent an impressive number of European Metropolitan Regions ˆ all of them leading economic and innovative centers in the European Union or, at least, significant economic centers in their home countries. The regions are the very locations where innovation takes place, they are the base of the competitiveness of the European Economy.

Based on the results of its predecessors, the Innovation Conference 2008 will focus on the concrete experience in the regions. The key note speeches will address the functional role of City-Regions in the innovation process, analyse the success and failure of the different innovation strategies and will try to give an answer to what is needed in the regions to make Europe more competitive.

Together with our regional and European Partners we developed four thematic workshops and one project-oriented workshop.

A. Strategies of Knowledge Regions: Attracting Talents and Mobilizing Competences
Overview on strategies of companies to attract talents and how public entities can support such strategies. Knowledge events and public awareness strategies.
Responsible Region: Munich Metropolitan Region
Contributions from: Munich, Manchester, Vienna, Barcelona

B. Fostering Innovative Products ˆ public procurement and lead markets
Overview on best practices what cities / regions can do to support the creation of lead markets and to facilitate the market entry for innovative products of regional companies.
Responsible Region: Budapest
Contributions from: Helsinki, Grand Lyon, European Commission

C. Innovation collaboration for future growth platforms
To further the understanding of how specialization and collaboration across businesses and regions can further both better exploitation of proven business models and exploration of new business models that contribute to sustainability in cities and regions.
Responsible Region: Stockholm
Contributions from: Munich, Eindhoven Open Innovation

D. Cross border regional Innovation
What can cities / regions do to make better use of the regional endogenous potential by facilitating cross boarder cooperation.
Responsible Region: Oresund Scientific Region
Contributions from: Rosenheim-Salzburg-Kufstein, Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen, Stockholm and the Baltic Sea

E. Co-operation and projects
Innovation projects of the partner regions will be presented.
Possibility to search projects partners and exchange ideas.
Responsible Region: Noord-Brabant

Date: 29 / 30 May 2008
Location: Munich, Germany
Organiser: City of Munich, Department of Labour and Economic Development
Contact: Dr. Raymond Saller
Telephone: 0049 89 233 213 32
Email: raymond.saller@muenchen.de
Internet: www.muenchen.de/wirtschaft

September 2008
Cities of Opportunity
‘The urban promise of upward mobility’
(An EUKN International Conference)
Event: Europe is a city. Some 75 per cent of Europeans live in urban areas. They are responsible for over 80 per cent of all economic activity. Prosperous cities‚ equals a prospering Europe. At the same time, opportunity and prosperity are not equally distributed within the city. Every European urban area contains neighbourhoods, districts, streets that are more or less deprived. Deprived urban areas are often viewed as being problematic and harmful within the urban fabric.
From a more positive point of view, deprived urban areas hold an enormous potential for socio-economic development. The challenge is to harness the potential of deprived urban areas and their inhabitants and offer them opportunities to access the wider society.
The 2008 edition of the European Urban Knowledge Network’s (EUKN) international conference will change the perception of deprived urban areas as an accumulation of problems to a view that is more in line with the actual situation in our cities. The conference will focus on how to harness the potential and energy present in deprived urban areas and on exploring ways in which these areas and their inhabitants can play their part in the creation of comprehensive, well-balanced and vital cities.
Speakers include:
• Patrick Le Galès, Research Director at CNRS and at Sciences Po
• Ella Vogelaar, Minister for Housing, Communities and Integration
• Opstelten, Mayor of Rotterdam
• Dominic Schrijer, Vice-Mayor of Rotterdam
The social programme includes a boat tour on the River Maas and a panoramic conference dinner wioth a view of the Rotterdam skyline.
‘Cities of opportunity ˆ the urban promise of upward mobility’ is organised by the European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) in co=operation with the City of Rotterdam, the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and Nicis Institute. EUKN is a decentralised knowledge network with National Focal Points (NFPs) in 16 EU Member States. Nicis Institute hosts the EUKN Secretariat.
Cost: €200 for two conference days
Early Bird (before 15 July): €150 for two conference days
Date: 22-23 September 2008
Location: City Hall - Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Organiser: European Urban Knowledge Network
Contact: Bart Nijhof
Telephone: +31 70 344 0513
Email: bart.nijhof@nicis.nl
Internet: click

November 2008
Coastal Cities Summit: Values & Vulnerabilities
Event: The International Ocean Institute-USA and the city of St. Petersburg, FL, USA, are hosting a Coastal Cities Summit on 17 to 20 November 2008 to address the complex challenges that coastal city leaders face as populations increase, resources are depleted, and the impacts of climate change are felt. The Coastal Cities Summit intends to bring together coastal city leaders, managers and academicss to discuss environmental, social, economic, and public policy challenges and viable solutions. The 3-day conference will focus on three themes: Climate Change, Risk and Vulnerability as well as Sustainable Development. All sessions are intended to give a long-needed voice to those who are on the front lines taking leadership on climate change, providing implementation and response plans and continuing to focus on protecting citizens from possible extreme events and human-induced degradation.
Date: 17-20 November 2008
Location: St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Organiser: International Ocean Institute - USA
Contact: Mara Hendrix
Telephone: +1-727-873-4745
Email: mara@ioiusa.usf.edu
Internet: www.coastalcities.org