I have and experience of 20 years in EU projects from the academia and city economic development. Themes covered have been tourism, inland waterways, air traffic development, regional policy, attraction and retention of talent, innovation policy, cultural heritage and food.

Project contributions

1 projects

REWARD

REWARD aims to improve implementation of regional development policies to retain and attract knowledge workers and skills.

Ongoing

Skills for S3 and industrial transition

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Good practices (8)

South Savo Food Cluster

South Savo Food Cluster aims to increase the competence, networking and internationalisation of the food sector and to create conditions for food innovations.

01 Mar 2024 | By project SMEOrigin

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

Support for tourism events innovation with small-scale grants

A form of micro-financing developed to complement tourist programs and enliven tourist season in the destination with events and activities.

03 Mar 2022 | By project RuralGrowth

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

Tourist programming in the destination during the seasons (weekly activities program)

Promotion based on a weekly programme of activities in tourism destination was implemented In order to promote tourism and covid-19-safe activities and products

03 Mar 2022 | By project RuralGrowth

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

Support for implementing COVID-19 safety standards in the enterprises and events

Organizing support for SMEs for implementing health regulations and for communication to the customers about safe tourism.

03 Mar 2022 | By project RuralGrowth

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

Museum Card of Finland

The Museum Card opens unlimited entry to participating museums for and annual payment (69 €, 2020). The card has significantly increased visits to museums.

11 Dec 2020 | By project Local Flavours

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

Culture Finland

Culture Finland is a national level cultural tourism promotion and coordination programme crossing the gaps between tourism operators and cultural producers.

11 Dec 2020 | By project Local Flavours

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

Lake Saimaa tourism destination cooperation

Five cities in two regions of Lake Saimaa area have agreed to pool resources for tourism promotion and develop a joint tourism brand.

30 Oct 2020 | By project Local Flavours

Expert approved

2014 - 2020

Visit Savonlinna open collaboration and tourism marketing platform

Visit Savonlinna was designed together with its sister site Savonlinnanyt.fi was designed as on open platform to facilitate collaboration between companies.

16 Apr 2018 | By project RuralGrowth

Expert approved

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Past events (7)

Event

13 Jun 2024

Online

Fostering entrepreneurship through coworking spaces

This webinar has ended. You can watch the recording, access the presentations and discover the key learnings in this follow-up article.

By Platform

Event

group of people gathered around a laptop and smiling

18 Jan 2024

Online

Welcome webinar for the second call projects

We organised a welcome webinar for lead partners of projects approved in Interreg Europe's second call in 2021-2027 on 18 January 2024 from 10:00 to 11:30 (CET/ Paris time). During the webinar, the lead partners got an overview of the steps to follow to start their projects. The subsidy contract

By Joint secretariat

Event

20 - 21 Mar 2024

In person

Antwerp

Europe, let's cooperate! 2024

The 10th edition of Europe, let's cooperate interregional cooperation forum (#europecooperates) took place on 20-21 March 2024 in Antwerp, Belgium. People joined us in Antwerp to celebrate cooperation, launch a new call for project proposals and welcome new countries in the Interreg Europe programme

By Joint secretariat

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Rose in front of mosaic blue building COPR Isaure Suplisson

07 Feb 2023

Online

Cultural and Creative Industries II: Towards a more social Europe

This webinar has ended. You can watch the recording, access the presentations and discover the key learnings in this follow-up article .

By Platform

Event

31 Jan 2023

Online

Cultural and Creative Industries I: Towards a green and digital Europe

This webinar has ended. You can watch the recording, access the presentations and discover the key learnings in this follow-up article .

By Platform

Event

29 Nov 2022

Online

Thematic networking event: Greener Europe

Our second call for project proposals is coming! The call will be open from 15 March to 9 June 2023 . We are here to help you get started with the preparation of your next project. In November and early December, we organised a series of thematic networking events online to share project ideas and

By Joint secretariat

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