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DAY 1, Tuesday 15 November

Opening speeches
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• Dr. Werner Hoyer (video), State Minister, Federal Foreign Office, Germany
• Gerhard Almer, Ambassador, Federal Foreign Office of Germany
• Armindo Silva, Director for Employment and Social Legislation, Social
  Dialogue, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European
  Commission

Key-note speeches

• Anders Lindholm, European Commission, DG Regional Policy
• Bernadette Ségol, Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation ETUC
• Renate Hornung-Draus, Managing Director, European and International Affairs, Confederation of German Employers (BDA)
• Franz Thönnes, MP, German Parliament, former Parliamentary State Secretary, Member of the Standing Committee of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference
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Parallel working sessions on Day 1

Working session 1: Development and strengthening of social dialogue – base for regional social and economic development
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• Development and strengthening of social dialogue – base for regional social and economic development (Mr Janis Kajaks, Free Trade Union Confederation of Latvia and Mr Eduards Filippovs, Employers' Confederation of Latvia)
• Social dialogue school for trade union youth (Mr Harri Taliga, Confederations of Estonian Trade Unions)
• Friday Social Dialogue School (Mr Alexandr Izgorodin, Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists)
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Working session 2 : Examples of Cooperation and networking in the BSR – Forum for Social Dialogue in the BSR and the CBICC (Cross-border Information and Competence Centre)
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• Core messages of BSLN and the Forum for Social Dialogue in the BSR (Mr Dr. Thomas Klischan, Nordmetall - Employer's Association of the Metall and Electronics Industry)
• Cross-border information and competence centre to foster mobility of labour and in vocational training (Ms Grazyna Rosanek, The All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions and Ms Silke Lorenz, Education and Training Service for Hamburg Business)
• Labour Market Monitor in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Mr Jan Ulatovski, Association for Structure Development and Employment)
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Working session 3: Migration and mobility for sustainable labour markets in the BSR
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• When labour costs squeeze the price – an analysis of public sector investments in infrastructure (Mr Mikael Nilsson, The Swedish Trade Union Confederation)
• Securing sustainable labour markets in Denmark, Norway and Sweden through joint efforts towards migrant workers and seasonal workers (Ms Dijana Aagaard-Poulsen, United Federation of Danish Workers)
• Qualitative interview study – social participation of immigrant workers in Finland (Ms Eve Kyntäjä, Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions)
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DAY 2, Wednesday 16 November

Labour market strategies in the BSR

• Dr. Wilfried Görmar, Chairman of Committee on Spatial Planning and Development in the Baltic Sea Region (VASAB): Challenges of demographic and labour market development for urban-rural cohesion in BSR
• Birte Homann, Wilke, Maack und Partner:
  Labour Markets in the Baltic Sea Region. Comparative Study on the Economic Situation and the Labour Market Situation
• Eve Kyntäjä, Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions:
  Qualitative interview study – social participation of immigrant workers in Finland
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Parallel working sessions on Day 2

Working session 1: Challenges of demographic and labour market development for urban-rural cohesion in BSR
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• DEMIFER: Demographic and migratory trends in Europe and the BSR (Ms Lisa van Well, Nordregio-Nordic Centre for Spatial Development)
• A Magic Box to cope with the Challenges of the demographic Change – a structural Model to do the right things in the right  way (Mr Alexander Frevel, Project “Best Agers”)
• Demographic Challenges in the Nordic Urban and Rural Labour Markets (Mr Mats Johanson, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology)
• Urban - Rural Areas Cohesion: Challenges and Development Policies Responses (Mr Miroslaw Grochowski, Polish Academy of Sciences)
• Urban-rural partnership – a tool to promote territorial cohesion (Mr Jürgen Wittekind, Institut Raum & Energie GmbH)
• Challenges of demographic and labor market development for urban-rural cohesion in BSR (Nina Oding, Leontief Centre)
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Working session 2: Education and training and competitiveness
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• Promoting further education. EQF – a practical example from Germany (Ms Katja Panic, Education and Training Service for Hamburg Business)
• Lifelong learning in Poland (Ms Joanna Posmyk, Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union / NSZZ ‚Solidarnosc‘)
• Impelementing the EQF - a practical example from Latvia (Ms Inga Šīna, Employers‘ Confederation of Latvia)
• Education and training in North-West Russia (Ms Mariya Grinnik, Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia)
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Working session 3: Migration and mobility of labour
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