DAY 1: TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER
Moderator Nicklas Wancke, journalist
Finland aiming high – The need for a comprehensive strategy
Keynote Anne Vehviläinen (Ministry of
Agriculture and Forestry of Finland)
(Nordregio)
Green Growth the Nordic Way: Results from the Nordic Prime Ministers’
Initiative
Financing green solutions
Keynote Magnus Rystedt (NEFCO)
International
outlook: Biobased Economy in the Netherlands; Where are we now and where
in 2030?
Keynote
Kees W. Kwant (Netherlands Enterprise Agency)
The German
Energiewende – An ambitious policy for green
transition Keynote Hans Koeppel (German Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
13:45-17:00 Innovative green solutions for regions and businesses. Focus
and network in the market place & parallel sessions
13:45-15:00 Coffee & Meet Green Growth Nordic Way projects, green cities
and enterprises in the market place
15:00-17:00 Parallel sessions:
3. Towards a Nordic Bioeconomy
Hordur Kristinsson (MATIS Iceland)
Isa-Maria Bergman (Motiva Finland)
Anne-Mette Sorensen
(Langvad, Central Denmark Region´s Initiative)
Anders Olsson (Region Värmland/Paper Province)
Johannes Vallivaara & Ilari Havukainen (Arctic Bioeconomy Cluster
Lapland)
Commentary,
Mads Randboll-Wolff (Nordic bioeconomy expert)
17.15-17.30
Sweden’s role in the Nordic bioeconomy,
Keynote Minister for Rural Affairs, Sven-Erik Bucht (Sweden)
DAY 2: WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER
9:00-12:45 Competitive and sustainable regions as engines for green
transition
Innovations in biofuels – A matter of life and death,
Keynote Mika Anttonen (ST1 Energy company)
Keynote Charlotta Söderberg (Luleå University of Technology)
10.00 Break
Regions as engines for green transition - panel session
Joint session with
Nelli Mikkola (Nordregio),
Professor Hans Westlund (KTH
Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm),
Professor Margareta Dahlström (Karlstad University),
Anders Olsson (Region Värmland)
and
Karen Refsgaard (TRIBORN project)
on regional policies and tools for green transition.
Ask the researchers,
share experiences and listen to short presentations of projects and
networks, like Swedish Ekokommuner, HINKU and the
Nordic Green to Scale
Nordic Cooperation for Green Transition
Secretary General Dagfinn Høybråten (Nordic Council of Ministers)
and
Director Hans Jørgen Koch (Nordic Energy Research)
Concluding remarks
by Director Kjell Nilsson (Nordregio)
Additional programme
13:30-17:00 Finnish bioeconomy at work - study tour to Espoo
13:30-15:00 Stepping up green impact with hybrid solutions (IEA report
launch on the premises)
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