Opportunities and Challenges within the 2007-2013 EU Financial Framework

Regional development and regional management typically involve NETWORKING – with all the advantages and obstacles that entails.
The workshop in Salzburg will focus on the following key questions among others:

• How can networking between regional actors be improved so as to reduce frictional losses and competing interests and make better use of synergies?
• What is available in the way of methods, instruments and positive experiences in regional governance and network building?

The programme comprises a combination of talks and group-working sessions. Attendees will be able to learn from experts to further enhance their competence for working in the field, to expose their views and working methods to critical reflection, and to generally benefit from the exchange of experience.

Target group: Regional managers, heads of regional working groups, regional authorities, regional planning and regional development specialists, NGOs, training providers.

Excerpt from the programme:

• Network intelligence in the region – organisational learning and the idea of the intelligent region
  Helmut Willke, University of Bielefeld
• Top-down and/or bottom-up – Austrian regional policy as an example of multi-level governance at the interface of EU funds, federalism and regional obstinacy
  Wolf Huber, Federal Chancellery, Regional Policy and Spatial Planning Co-ordination Office 
• Regional co-operation in the Alps: experience with CIPRA’s knowledge-transfer project “Future in the Alps”
  Johannes Heeb, CIPRA International  
• Regional co-operation – interplay of strategy, cunning and tactics?
  Bruno Schmid, Entlebuch Biosphere Park 
• The role of education and training providers in regional knowledge transfer
  Günther Kienast, Lower Austrian Regional Academy 
• Regional planning, management and networking: the everyday challenges
  With input from Karl G. Becker, ÖAR, and Günter Salchner, Regionalentwicklung Ausserfern
  
  

Partner: LEADER+, Regionalmanagement Austria, Österreichisches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung, CIPRA Österreich.

Languages: german and english