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The South Baltic Programme is focusing on the development of areas at the maritime border of the southern Baltic Sea regions in Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and parts of Denmark. The overall objective of the South Baltic Cross-border Cooperation Programme which is running from 2007 – 2013 is to support the sustainable development of these regions and their joint actions to increase its competitiveness and enhance the integration among people and institutions. Rostock Business is partner in the three following EU projects.
The project SB Professionals started in 2012. The project partners have the objective to initiate and expand the ongoing exchange of information between the actors in the labor market (employment agencies, economic development agencies, chambers, universities and professionals). The project will support joint actions to match the labour market demands with a supply of qualified work force to increase labour force mobility and flexibility. Furthermore the SB regions will be promoted as attractive places to live and work.
Within the frame of SB Global Access regional authorities, economic development agencies, regional airports from Bornholm, Klaipeda, Palanga, Rostock, Szczecin and Växjö exchange and jointly design feasible response strategies to safeguard and develop sustainable and competitive levels of accessibility by air in the South Baltic Region. Study groups will work on specific route potentials, hub access and tourism potentials. Moreover best practices exchange and common development of strategies for the application of Public Service Obligations as well as destination marketing and airline acquisition strategies will be included in the project activities.
In view of the fact that offshore wind energy has an enormous potential, and its production is highly cost efficient compared to other renewable energy sources. It has become a competitive alternative to fossil sources of energy, and therefore large-scale investments in new capacities have recently been made or are currently planned. The project will lead to a better positioning of the South Baltic Offshore Wind Industry in the competition for public and political attention in the region and the EU. Direct (cross-border) cooperation and successful business relationships of companies will be supported as well as the supply of specialists in the region and to accommodate the demand of the Offshore Wind Industry.
Over 220 national and international industry representatives met up for a second time in the Hanseatic city, following an invitation from the Wind Energy Network Rostock e. V. to find out more about projects and developments in wind energy. …more»
“Caterpillar Motoren is a German-American success story”, remarks Oswald Schöffel, General Manager of Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG in Kiel. “With innovative products, the company has achieved continuous growth in the past years and has a secured an excellent position in the marine shipping, power generation, and oil & gas industries… …more»
On 10 June 2010 in Nykøbing/Guldborgsund, Denmark, a partner meeting for the South Baltic OFFER project was held in which the project partners got together to formalize their common objectives and officially start the project. …more»