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SMART COOPERATION IN COASTAL
AND MARITIME TOURISM
Encouraging transnational partnerships through clusters and networks
Brussels 20 January 2015 - Conference Center Albert Borschette - room AB 0A
PROGRAMME
08:45 - 09:15
Registration and welcome coffee
09:15 - 09:30
Opening session
Daniel Calleja
Director General, Internal market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, DG GROW, European Commission
09:30 - 11:00
SESSION 1
EUROPEAN CLUSTERS AND NETWORKS FOR GROWTH AND INNOVATION
Moderator:
Franz Lamplmair - Advisor, DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, DG MARE, European Commission
• Carlos Costa
Full Professor of Tourism at the University of Aveiro, “Tourism networks in Europe”
• Thomas Lämmer-Gamp
Director, ESCAA, European secretariat for Cluster Analysis, “Good practices and joint synergies
for the implementation of cluster strategies”
• Adi Weidenfeld
Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, Middlesex University, “The role of clustering in cooperation,
complementarities and innovation in the visitor attraction sector”
• Blanka Belošević
Head of Department for International Cooperation, Ministry of Tourism Croatia,
National Focal Point for pillar 4 “Sustainable tourism” of the European Union Strategy for Adriatic
and Ionian Region-EUSAIR, “Building maritime and coastal tourism clusters and networks
in the Adriatic and Ionian Region”
• Claus Schultze
DG Regional Policy, DG REGIO, European Commission, “Smart specialisation strategies and innovation”
• José Freitas
DG GROW, European Commission, “European Cluster Partnerships Going International and Cluster
Excellence as tools for growth and jobs”
11:00 - 11:15
Debate
11:15:-11:30
Coffee break
11:30 -12:30
SESSION 2 (A) BUILDING AND STRENGTHENING PARTNERSHIPS IN CLUSTERS
Moderator: Reza Zadeh - Executive Director of European Foundation for ClusterExcellence
• Angel Puig
Director Idimar, Cluster de inovacion marina de las islas Baleares,
“Marine innovation in the Balearic Islands Cluster”
• María Teresa Ayestaran
Responsible, Surfcity Cluster, Fomento San Sebastian, “The Surfcity Cluster”​
• Zacharias Siokouros
President of the Maritime Institute of Eastern Mediterranean and responsible
for the Lynceus project, “The Lynceus Project”
• Eleni Marianou
Secretary General of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions,
CPMR “Bringing maritime players together - the experience of CPMR”
• Corinne Cerveaux
Responsible for the Cluster GOazen Project, Chamber of Commerce Bayonne Pays Basque,
“The Goazen Cluster in the Pays Basque, France”
12:30 -12:45
Debate
12:45 -14:15
Walking lunch
14:15 - 16:00
SESSION 2 (B)
BUILDING AND STRENGTHENING PARTNERSHIPS IN EUROPEAN NETWORKS
Moderator: Alain Liberos - DG GROW, European Commission
• Panagiotis Ignatiadis
Business Adviser, European Enterprise Network, EEN, PRAXI Network, “The role of EEN in relation
to the tourism small and medium size enterprises, with focus on maritime and costal issues”
• Giorgos Benetos
Chairman, Network of the Insular Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the EU - INSULEUR,
“The experience of INSULER in building and strengthening partnerships in the sector”
• Isabelle Ryckbost
Secretary General of the European Sea ports Organisation ESPO,
“Small vs. Big Players in Partnerships: How to Build a Solid Network”
• Thierry Del Poso
Program Odyssea SUDOE2, Chairman of Communauté des Communes Sud Roussillon,
Mayor of Saint-Cyprien, “The Odyssea project: what can we learn for establishing new partnerships”
• Urszula Budzich-Tabor
Coordinator, European Fisheries Area Network, FARNET, “Fisheries Local Action Groups as a tool
o stimulate cooperation and networking between coastal and maritime tourism stakeholders”
• Susanne Marx
Coordinator, Network of Baltic Museums (2.0Plus Project), “Overcoming seasonality in coastal
and maritime tourism by building partnerships. A Blue Growth network for Europe?”
• Jan Korthoudt
Tourism policy advisor at the Flemish Department of Foreign Affairs and Member of
the NECSTouR Board
16:00 - 16:15
Debate
16:15 - 16:30
Conclusions
Lowri Evans
Director General, DG Maritime Policy and Fisheries, European Commission