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Council of Europe 24 - 24July Paris

This presentation focuses on the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy in Sörmland, discussing the bottom-up approach, chosen indicators, current challenges, and expected outcomes. It highlights the importance of EU membership, regional and municipal contributions, and the use of relevant indicators for sustainable growth and development.

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Council of Europe 24 - 24July Paris

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  1. Council of Europe 24 - 24July Paris

  2. The Lisbon strategy takes place in County of Sörmland

  3. County of Sörmland part of EU

  4. My presentation • The Bottom up model –and correlation with steering documents, choosen indicators • Where we stand today in the municipalities/regions- present –day challenges • What I exepect to gain from the meeting in Paris • General thoughts and questions

  5. Aims • Sörmland municipalities will actively contribute to the realisation of the Lisbon Strategy in order to reach positive growth and development in the region. • Increased awareness and understanding of the indicators’ importance for development of the region. • Contribute to dissemination of knowledge about our EU membership.

  6. EU National level Regional level Municipalities in Sörmland Holistic approach ”Bottom up” • Current situation • What do we do? • What do we • want?

  7. The Lisbonstrategy in County of Sörmland The vision The Sörmland County Strategy Carry out the LisbonStrategy The Lisbon indicators Strategies to reach the goal

  8. Framework – Indicators When following up indicators, movement should be measured Indicators should be relevant to citizens Follow our sustainable growth Be important/relevant to the organisation Point to major areas of improvement Be included in the Lisbon strategy

  9. Indicator – economic growth • Discussion in each municipality, spring 07, and summarised in joint strategy. • E.g Sörmland is growing faster than the national average

  10. Indicator – population growth • Employment rate % • Employment rate, people from non-Nordic countries • Wage levels for immigrant population • Accumulated results/increased turnover • Number of newly started companies

  11. Indicator – higher education • Education level, human capital

  12. Higher education

  13. Indicator – enviroment • Carbon dioxide/ base year/ capita, excluding SSAB • Number of enviromentally classified cars. • Amount of residue waste

  14. Emission of greenhouse gases

  15. Indicator – working/living enviroment • Healthy workforce/ capacity

  16. Where we stand todayKeys for success • Link to existing development processes • Politicians must ”own” the process • EU issues must be communicated in the ”market square” • Build networks with other regions • Create projects, for example Interreg IV:c

  17. Where we stand todayProject organisation • Operative project management group set up comprising chief executives and the Regional Council’s managing director • The executive committees of the Regional Council and the municipalities form a steering group, charged of two politicians • The Regional Council is responsible for coordinating external stakeholders, collecting and processing data, etc.

  18. General thoughts and questions with focus on to help the politicians • How to combine political ambitions/region challenges with relevant statistic • How to force the politicians to really own the project • More regional statistics is needed • Important with the dialogue • with the citizens (EU on the marketsquare) • Horizontal dialogue/vertical dialogue • Is it necessary to have right to • local taxes to create results?

  19. What I expect to gain from the meeting in Paris • Ideas concerning statistics, how we measure(indicators), • describe, and dialogue with the citizens • Support for our work in Sormland • Benchmarking, regions to compare with

  20. Long term goals 2010 • Growth in Sörmland are …….. • Inhabitants in Sörmland are more positive towards both regional development and EU cooperation. • Sörmland and its municipalities are on the EU ”growth map”.

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