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Programme

Here you find an overview of all events on Wednesday, 15th September 2010.
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WEDNESDAY, 15.9.2010
METREX/SCANDRIA: Day of Europe
Improving Accessibility, Greening Transport, and Motivating Creative and Economic Resources

  Moderation: Petra Schwarz
  Languages: german and english. Simultaneous translation is provided

08:30 – 10:30 Registration


10:30             Welcome and Opening20 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall – Metropolis and Region in MotionIngeborg Junge-Reyer, Mayor and Senator for Urban Development, Berlin (speech)
Jörg Vogelsänger, Minister of Infrastructure and Agriculture, Federal State Brandenburg (speech)


11:15             Prime SpeakerThe Creative City – Towards a Creative RegionCharles Landry, London


12:15 – 13:30Lunch Break


13:30             Opening and Key Note IEuropean Cohesion Policy – Impact and Expectations for RegionsGerhard Stahl, Secretary General Committee of Regions


14:00            Key Note IIEuropean Regional Policy for Regions within the extending Europe David Sweet, European Commission for Regional Development/Directorate for Regional Policy


14:30    Key Note IIIShaping the Future of Mobility - Connecting RegionsDr. Katharina Erdmenger, German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development


15:00           Coffee Break


15:30           Key Note IVGreening Logistics within the Economic Regional, National and European Context Prof. Dr. Herbert Sonntag, CEO Logistics Network of Berlin Brandenburg

15:50           Key Note VThe Metropolitan Economy: Innovation, Jobs and Social CoherenceProf. Dr. Dietrich Henckel, Berlin University of Technology, Urban and Regional Economics


16:10           Key Note VICultural Challenges – Metropolises as Places of Knowledge for a Broader PublicProf. Dr. Claudia Lux, Director General of the Berlin Central and Regional Library Foundation


16:30          Discussion of Panel and AudienceImpulse StatementHannu Penttilä, President of METREX
Moderation: Petra Schwarz, Freelance Journalist      


17:30      End

logo_land_brandenburglogo_berlin Under the Patronage of Minister President of Land Brandenburg Matthias Platzeck and the Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit