THE CREATION OF A REGION

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Creating a region

STRING (South Western Baltic Sea Transregional Area

Implementing New Geography)

Partners:Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Region Zealand, Capital

region of Denmark, Region Skåne

Lobby organisation established in 1999 to lobby for The Femern Belt Link

Today an organisation that works for green growth and development of the Femern Corridor crossing borders between Sweden, Denmark and Germany

Creating a region

The Zealand Agreement:

“Our vision is that the STRING region will be the driver behind a North European green growth corridor consisting of the STRING region in a functional partnership with our neighboring regions. The corridor will be a green European powerhouse; a strong strategic axis contributing to knowledge, growth, welfare and sustainability in Northern Europe, including the Baltic Sea Region.”

• A new region?

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Traffic flows across the 3 straits

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Creating a Region

”The Agenda”

Infrastructure: creating an efficient infrastructure in order to ensure both growth and sustainability

Universities: Create a Science Corridor where universities and competences work together in Northern Europe. Ex. Material Science

Industry: Collaboration to facilitate meetingplaces, co-operation and clusters

Labor Market: indentify and eliminate barriers for an integrated labor market

Tourism, culture: create knowledge through marketing and information and thereby create contact, physical meetings and mutual understanding

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”The Agenda”Communication – the lesson learned from Øresund is that

communication and information is mandatory if your objective is integration

Both for the individual and the economy the lack of knowledge and the uncertainty are the largest obstacels to integration and new behavior

Communication and ”your own experience” are the foundations of the mental bridges

Credebility comes from the individual – not through mass communication or marketing. I.e. storytelling and statements are vital elements – in combination with interactive dialogue fora´s and Q&A-sites regarding culture, labormarket, tax, housing, management style etc.

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Strategic economics growth sectors/clusters:

• Material Science• Life Science• Cleantech• Transportation and logistics• Food Industry• Media Industry• Tourism

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The Theory

We have both metropolian areas and rural areas. We want to create growth, development and prosparaty in both

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Strong public belief in the idea

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Q: Will a fixed link harm or benefit the development in Northern Germany and the Øresund region ? (Source: Femern A/S)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

Jacob Vestergaard

Email: jves@regionsjaelland.dk