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Friday, 18 November 2005
Expert Conference "The future of regional airports (CEE)" in Ostrava
to the program

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Wednesday, 9 November 2005
Advisory board meeting in Linz,
Landhaus

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Dr. Franz Schausberger, Chairman of the Institute of the Regions of Europe (IRE)
Dr. Josef Pühringer,
State Governor of Oberösterreich (Austria)
Radimir Cacic, Minister President of Varazdin
Danijel Ivanagic, BA IT, Member of the County Council, Varazdin

Tuesday, 8 November 2005
Presentation of the Institute of the Regions of
Europe (IRE) at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe in Straßburg

TITLE: "New developments in the field of regionalisation – creation of the Institute of European Regions (IRE) in Salzbourg (Austria)"

Autumn Institutional Session of rhe Chaber of Regions with the participation of the Standing Committee and the Institutional Committee of the Chamber of Regions

Strasbourg, Palais de l’Europe - Room 2, from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm

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16th and 17th August 2005
General Assembly of the Institute of the Regions & Conference of European Regions 2005

under the patronage of Foreign Minister of the Republic of Austria Dr. Ursula PLASSNIK
Title: “Financing of Regional Infrastructure Projects” in
Salzburg

Tuesday, 16th August 2005, Schloss Mattsee, Salzburg

11:00 a.m.

Salzburg Festival, Großes Festspielhaus, Hofstallgasse 1, 5010 Salzburg
Concert of the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Riccardo MUTI
Programme: Goffredo Petrassi -  Johannes Brahms - Ludwig van Beethoven

   
03:00 p.m. General Assembly „Institute of the Regions of Europe“ in Schloss Mattsee near Salzburg
   
 

Univ. Doz. Dr. Franz SCHAUSBERGER, Chairman of the Institute of the Regions
of Europe (IRE)

Opening and Introduction

   
 

Ambassador Dr. Johannes KYRLE, Secretary General of the Austrian Ministry for
Foreign Affairs

The key action points of the Austrian EU-Presidency in the first half of 2006

   
 

Dipl. Ing. Dr. Franz FISCHLER, Former EU-Commissioner
The responses of the European Union to the burning questions of the European citizens

   
 

Univ. Doz. Dr. Franz SCHAUSBERGER, Chairman of the Institute of the Regions
of
Europe (IRE)

Mag. Dr. Stefan EDER
,
Vice-Chairman of the Institute of the Regions of Europe (IRE)
Activity report and presentation of the IRE working programme

   
  Discussion
   
05:00 p.m.

Round Table of the Presidents of European interregional organisations
for the preparation of a conference during the year 2006

   
06:00 p.m. Boattrip on the Ferry „Seenland
   
07:00 p.m. Dinner in Schloss Mattsee, then Digestive in the courtyard of Schloss Mattsee

Wednesday, 17th August 2005, Kavalierhaus Klessheim, Salzburg

09:00 p.m.

Univ. Doz. Dr. Franz SCHAUSBERGER, Chairman of the Institute of the Regions
of
Europe (IRE)

Opening and Introduction

   
09:15 p.m.

Dipl. Ing. Pál CSÁKY, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovakia, Minister for European integration, human rights and minorities
Regionalisation in Slovakia and the experience in financing regional infrastructure projects of a
new EU-
member
state

   
10:00 p.m.

Wolfgang ROTH, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB)
The involvement of the EIB in infrastructure projects in Eastern Europe

   
11:15 p.m.

Mag. Heinz ZOUREK, Deputy Director-General, European Commission, DG Enterprise
and Industry
The new Action Programme in the area of innovation of the European Commission and opportunities resulting thereof for the European Regions

   
11:45 p.m.

Dr. Alexander PICKER, HVB Bank Serbia and Montenegro a.d. Belgrade
The role of commercial banks in financing regional infrastructure

   
12:30 p.m. Buffet Lunch
   
01:30 p.m. Round Table I
Real Estate

Director-General Mag. Dr. Karl PETRIKOVICS
Immofinanz AG

   
  Round Table II
Traditional financing

Director Dipl.-Volkswirt Bernd HOHMANN
Head of the finance,
Material Management, Membership
and Insurance Division, E.ON Ruhrgas AG

   
  Round Table III
Alternative financial
instruments (e.g. PPP)

Director-General Dr. Wilfried STADLER
Investkredit Bank AG

   
03:00 p.m. Mag. Dr. Stefan EDER, Managing Regional Partner, DLA Weiss-Tessbach
Summing up and closing

This event was sponsored by

 Bundesministerium f. auswärtige Angelegenheiten

 Immofinanz     BA-CA     DLA Weiss-Tessbach

 Alpine     e on     Ruhrgas  Invest Kredit

 

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May 4th 2005
Seminar “The political and economic significance of the Regions of Europe”,
Raiffeisensaal
RZB

2:30 p.m.

Univ. Doz. Dr. Franz SCHAUSBERGER, Former Governor of the State of Salzburg
Chairman of the Institute of the Regions of Europe (IRE), Chairman of Commission of Constitutional Affairs and European Government
Opening and Introduction:
“The importance of the regions in the European integration process”

   
02:45 p.m. Jonathan SAID MSc, B. Comm, Centre for economics and business research (cebr), London
“Which are the EU’s sunrise regions” (The EU Regional Investment Index)
   
03:15 p.m.

Mag. Thomas FISCHER, Project Director of the Project “Modern Political Control”,
Bertelsmann foundation,
Güterloh

“The new constitution of the EU and the European Regions“

   
03:45 p.m. 

Ing. Evžen TOSENOVSKY, President of the Moravian-Silesian Region (Czech Republic),
Chairman of the Conference of the Governors of the Czech Republic
“The starched role of the regions of the Czech Republic

   
04:15 p.m. 

Giovanni DI STASI, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
of the Council of
Europe (Clrae)
“The Regions in the new democracies in Europe

   
16:30 Uhr  Riccardo ILLY, President of the Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, President of the Assembly of
European Regions (AER)

“The Role of the Regions in the Implementation of the Lisbon Agenda“
   
 

Subsequent discussion and résumé by Mag. Dr. Stefan EDER,
Vice-Chairman of the Institute of the Regions of Europe (IRE)

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Opening Ceremony of the Institute of the Regions of Europe (IRE)
Kongress-Saal” of the Austrian Federal Chancellery

Welcome

Univ. Doz. Dr. Franz SCHAUSBERGER,Former Governor of the State of Salzburg
Chairman of the Institute of the Regions of Europe (IRE)

   
Salutation Dr. Michael HÄUPL, Mayor of the City of Vienna, President of the Council of European
Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)

Peter STRAUB,
President of the Regional Parliament of Baden–Württemberg, President of
the Committee of the Regions (CoR) of the European Union
   
Lecture Univ. Prof. Dr. Kurt BIEDENKOPF, Former Prime Minister of the State of Saxonia
“The significance of the regions in the European Union“
   
Opening Dr. Wolfgang SCHÜSSEL, Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria

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