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The items of the meeting, "e-city" and "business promotion" were based on the decision taken in Liepaja meeting in 2001. The first invitation for the meeting was send in February 2002. The meeting was participated by 28 persons from 17 member cities and 7 countries.
In the meeting was agreed the following plan for future Commission work:
*Cooperation
projects:
The cities aim to start cooperation projects in the fields of following items:
1. Cluster development
Tampere, Kaunas, Tallinn, St Petersburg, Kolding, Pärnu, Jurmala
Coordinator: Tallinn
2. eDimension (+youth entrepreneusrship)
Tampere, Kaunas, St Petersburg, Jurmala, Tartto
Coordinator: Tampere
3. How to establish industrial / technology park?
Tampere, Pärnu, Kaunas,
Panevezys, Mariampole, Cesis, Klaipeda, Voru
Coordinator: Tampere
4. Seed Fund
Gdansk, Tartto, Kaunas, Panevezys, Tampere
Coordinator: Gdansk
5. Business climate
Liepaja, Kolding, Klaipeida, Pärnu,
Gdansk, Kaunas
Coordinator: Kolding
6. Interactive UBC website to exchange of project ideas
The need for interactive website was discussed.
The coordinators will make preliminar project plan and search financing possibilities until 1.10.2002.
* The other decisions made in the Tampere meeting:
The next UBC Business Commission meeting will be held in Kaunas during the week 21 in connection with the "Kaunas Day". Mr Ruta Antanaitiene, Officer of Foreign Relations of Kaunas wellcomed UBC Cities to next meeting in Kaunas on May 2003. The UBC meeting 2004 will possibly take place in Växjö
The cities were asked about their willingness to establish a permanent secretariat for Commission. At the moment no one was interested to take responsibility of the permanent secretary. The item was agreed to postpone to the next meeting.
Tampere will collect all the material of the meeting and send it to all the UBC Cities.
Further information:
Mr Kari Loytty
Coordinator of the Commission
Business Development Officer
Aleksis Kiven katu 16 C
33100 Tampere
Tel + 358 3 3146 6216
Fax+ 358 3 3146 6022
e-mail kari.loytty@tt.tampere.fi
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