Final event IRIS-Europe 13 Novembre 2007 Brussels (Belgium)

IRIS-Europe Final Event took place in Brussels at the Committee of the Regions on 13th Novembre 2007. Attended by 75 participants from 15 different countries representing the most diverse regions of Europe, this event, aiming at presenting IRIS-Europe outputs and results, has been warmly welcomed. It has enabled our consortium to present the project and to communicate on it towards political entities and project managers and to further exchange on issues such as project transfer.

The agenda of our final workshop:

 Inter-regional cooperation and INTERREG projects

Welcome speech by Mr. Yannick Landais, Director of ARTESI Ile-de-France.

Speech from a representative person from the Committee of the Regions (CoR)
Speaker: Ms. Marjorie Jouen, president’s cabinet administrator at the CoR.

Speech from the Joint Technical Secretariat of INTERREG IIIC West
Speaker: Ms Elena Ferrario - IRIS-Europe project officer, Joint Technical Secretariat of INTERREG IIIC West.

 Presentation IRIS-Europe project outputs and the new version to come

— Ms Elena Ferrario - IRIS-Europe project officer, Joint Technical Secretariat of INTERREG IIIC West.
— M. Vincent Rey, European Projects Manager, ARTESI Ile-de-France, France.
— M. Emmanuel Vandamme, -Europe Project Coordinator, OTeN, France.

- Open discussion about the project transfer issue

Debate about the issue of project transfer regarding INTERREG IVC key concepts "Exchange of Experiences, Transfer and Capitalisation".

Speakers:

— Mr. Alain Keravel, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, CCI de Paris - HEC, France.
— Miss. Iro Nikiforou, ATLANTIS Group, University of Crete, Greece.
— Mr. Raul Caires, chairman of Madeira Tecnopolo, Portugal.
— Mr. Arkadiusz Z?otnicki, vice-president of "Cities on Internet" association - COI, Poland.
— Mr. Jérémie Massin, Systèmes d’Information pour les TERritoires - SITER, France.

Mr Miguel Montesdeoca (MMCICOM - Canary Islands) will lead the session.

Conclusions and closing speech by Mr. Yannick Landais, director of ARTESI Ile-de-France