Session I

Welcome speeches

·         Mrs. Egidijus Meilūnas, Vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania

·         Mr. Arūnas Štaras, Vice-minister of Transport and Communications of Lithuania

·         Mr. Carl von der Esch, State Secretary, Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications of Sweden

Session II

Assessing the added value of the Baltic Sea Strategy: governance and implementation

• Outlook of the governance of the Strategy, Progress Report on the Transport Priority Area

Mr Anders Lindholm, The European Commission, DG REGIO

• View from the Coordinators of the Transport Priority Area: project portfolio, coordination, challenges

Mr. Nerijus Kaučikas, MoTC Lithuania, Mr. Magnus Oldenburg, MoEEC Sweden

Session III

Implementation of the Area No 11 – projects in progress

• The European Union’s infrastructure policy: TEN-T policy review and TEN-T 2010 calls

Mr. Jose Anselmo presented by the European Commission, DG MOVE

• Baltic Transport Outlook 2030

Ms. Sofie Vennersten, WSP Analysis & Strategy, Sweden

Ms. Helena Kyster-Hansen, Tetraplan A/S, Denmark

• Motorways of the Sea project in the Baltic Sea Area

Mr. Anders Wiberg, Port of Karlshamn, Sweden

• Green corridors: developing the concept

Mr. Jerker Sjogren, MoEEC Sweden

·        Possible synergies between transport-related projects in the Baltic Sea Region Programme

Mr. Wiktor Szydarowski, TransBaltic project manager

• Putting green corridors into logistics chain

Mr. Vladas Stūrys, EWTC II, Lithuania

Session IV

New initiatives within Transport Priority Area

• Rail Baltica Growth Corridor

Mr. Olli Keinänen, City of Helsinki, Finland

·         Road Traffic Safety evaluation and rating model in the Baltic
Sea Region

Mr. Hans Skalin, Swedish Transport Agency, Sweden

• Amber Coast Logistics

Mr. Sebastian Doderer, Port of Hamburg, Germany

• The Bothnian Green Corridor - logistics solutions for European added value – a Baltic Sea Region Program proposal

Mr. Gustav Malmqvist, EU & International Collaboration, Sweden

·         Resources for Europe

Mr. Pentti Hamalainen,  Council of Tampere Region, Finland