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Strong-specific and Promising –
a follow-up on the 2020 vision for NSPA
Erik Gløersen
NSPA-Forum, October 25th, 2013
The NSPA visioning process
NSPA as a product of Europe
Focus on imagining a future
 What could be achieved
if the framework conditions are appropriate?
 What can the NSPA do for Europe?
Specify policy message: not ”support for lagging region”,
but ”investment in Europe’s future”
 Strong, Specific and Promising
Meeting-point between EU-wide challenges and
”regional issues”
The NSPA visioning process
European challenges
DEMOGRAPHY
CLIMATE
CHANGE
GLOBALISATION
ENERGY
NSPA
strategy
EDUCATION
INNOVATION
ECONOMIC
CHANGE
QUALITY
OF LIFE
CONNECTIVITY
Regional issues
Taking full advantage of resources
Three «pillars» to be brought into coherence
Growth and development
«Towards a vision for the NSPA»
Demographic stabilisation as the core objective
Opposing perspectives on the viability
of local communities:
do the communities need to change/disappear
or are the framework conditions the problem?
Evolution since 2009
Continued
negative
net-migration
in large parts
of the NSPA
Main points of the vision
Demographic trends under control
More balanced communities, open to foreign influences
Enhanced interaction and cooperation with Russia
Improved urban qualities
More robust and productive local economies
Coordinated actions to promote sustainable tourism
World level R&D activities within selected niches
Coherent regional transportation systems
Policy road map: priorities
Fully exploiting NSPA resources
Pro-active policies to promote more balanced and
dynamic local communities
Economic policies: focus on knowledge economy and
creative sectors
Transport: focus on bottlenecks for exports,
intra-regional coherence and dependence
on fossil energy
Branding
Key issues for the next steps
From vision to actions: how to target policies?
How can a better multi-level dialogue be initiated?
What difference can the NSPA make?
What EU-instruments can be mobilised?
Nexus model
Evolution since 2009
Concrete
effects of
climate
change
Evolution since 2009
Arctic issues
more prominent