Local economy and jobs in times of crisis: innovating to deliver results for people

9.00 - 9.30 Registration

 

9.30 - 9.50 Opening remarks

Olgierd Geblewicz, President of the EPP-CoR Group, President of West Pomerania Region

Jan Grolich, President of South Moravian Region

Roman Línek, Vice-President of Pardubice Region

 

9.50 - 10.00 Key-note speech

Manfred Weber, President of the EPP and Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament

 

10:00 - 10.20 Testimonials

Vadym Boychenko, Mayor of Mariupol

Vitaliy Kim, Governor of Mykolaiv Oblast

 

10.20 - 11.30

PANEL 1: The war in Ukraine and its impact on the local labour market

Marian Jurecka, Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs

Jelena Drejanin, EPP-CoR 1st Vice-president

Emil Boc, Mayor of Cluj-Napoca

Michaela Šojdrová, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-chair of the CULT committee

Alena Krejčí, Director of the Centre for Foreigners

 

11.30 - 12.50

PANEL 2: Regions as hubs for innovation

Markku Markkula, President of Helsinki Region

Thomas Schmidt, Minister for Regional Development, Free State of Saxony

Radim Sršeň, Deputy Minister for Regional Development, Mayor of the Municipality of Dolní Studénky

Miroslav Janovsky, Head of the Department of Development of the Pardubice Region

Petr Chládek, Director of the South Moravian Innovation Centre

 

12.50- 13.00 Adoption of a Brno Declaration and Concluding remarks

Olgierd Geblewicz, President of the EPP-CoR Group and President of West Pomerania Region

 

Interpretation: EN, FR, DE, CS, PL, UK

 

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