ESPON Seminar

“A world without borders

Refugees, cooperation and territories”

in Luxembourg City, 8 and 9 December 2015

One week left to register to join the ESPON Seminar and hear from key note speakers on the territorial aspects of refugee migration, the cross-border cooperation, the monitoring for macro-regions as well as on the implementation and first activities of ESPON 2020.

30 speakers have confirmed their participation:

• Frank Vansteenkiste, Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure, LU
• Heinz Faβmann, University of Vienna
• Sandra Di Biaggio, ESPON EGTC
• Daniel Rauhut, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR)
• Mart Grisel, European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN)
• Thomas Jézéquel, Eurocities
• Nathalie Noupadja, Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)
• Alexis Chatzimpiros, Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR)
• Mathilde Konstantopoulou, Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism, GR
• Romana Mynarikova, Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, DE
• Arni Narain, Department for Communities and Local Government, UK
• Alfonso Alcolea Martinez, Committee of the Regions
• Peter Mehlbye, ESPON EGTC
• Marianne Guérois, UMS RIATE
• Jean Peyrony, Transfrontier Operational Mission
• Anthony Soares, Center for Cross Border Studies
• Nathalie Verschelde, DG Regional and Urban Policy
• Jean-Claude Sinner, Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure, LU
• Teodora Brandmüller, Eurostat
• Andrea Mairate, DG Regional and Urban Policy
• Talis Linkaits, VASAB Secretariat ˗ Baltic Sea Region
• Roland Arbter, Federal Chancellery, Austria - Danube Region
• Frithjof Ehm, DG Regional and Urban Policy - Alpine Region
• Andreja Petković, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Croatia - Adriatic and Ionian Macro Region
• Tobias Chilla, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Michaela Gensheimer, ESPON EGTC
• Thiemo Eser, Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure, LU
• Daniel de Groot, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, NL
• Tamara Matulikova, Ministry of Transport, Construction & Regional Development, SK
• Sabine Stölb, Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure, LU

The event is organised in cooperation with the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the EU within the framework of the ESPON 2020 Cooperation Programme.

See the full programme here.

Registration by Tuesday 1 December 2015 at 15h00 online here.