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Joint Monitoring Committee had its 11th meeting

9.12.2020 by groteski

The Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) had its eleventh meeting on 9 December 2020 on-line, following current safety measures due to coronavirus second outbreak. This year, e-tools in meeting facilitation have become quite familiar to all Programme’s stakeholders, and the Committee had systematic but very fruitful discussions over the first draft of the MA’s Annual Report (reporting period 7/2019-6/2020). In addition, the meeting received and discussed of state of play of the Programme and projects implementation, communication and visibility results, an analysis of the first results of projects’ Result Oriented Monitoring (ROM) and information of the Programming period 2021-2027 preparations.

In terms of contracting awarded funds, the Managing Authority noted that all projects selected from the fifth call are launched, and the sixth call is expected to be fully contracted in March 2021. Full allocation of the Programme funds for the awarded projects from Calls 1-6 and for nine Large Infrastructure Projects mean also the closure of the continuous call for proposals of the South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014-2020. In accordance with the JMC decision, the respective functions in the PROMAS will be closed as of 1.1.2021.

Good Communication Awards 2020 – winners are selected

30.11.2020 by groteski

As an annual tradition launched in 2018, the South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014-2020 Programme has awarded its funded projects in recognition of their contributions in terms of good communication. Awards symbolize transparent and fluent cooperation between the partners, the positive approach towards the Cross-Border Cooperation between Finland, Russia and the European Union, and the visibility and notability the projects provide for their own sectors, the Programme and its financiers. In 2020, special attention in selecting the winners were given to the consistency and adaptation to carry on with the funded action plans in the circumstances broadly effected by the Covid-19 virus pandemic.

Traditionally the awards have been handed in our Annual Events, but due to next one postponed to 2021, we build on-line visibility on our web-site and social media channels. All partner of the winning projects will receive a Good Communication Award 2020 certificate.

This year, we congratulate following projects and partners

Lead Partner: Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution IEEP from Russia
Partners: Natural Resources Institute from Finland, Leningrad Region Government, Committee for Agroindustry and Fishery Complex from Russia and Administration of Priozerskij District from Russia

Lead Partner: Kotka-Hamina Regional Development Company, Cursor Ltd from Finland
Partners: South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences from Finland, Saint Petersburg Foundation for SME Development from Russia and Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics from Russia

Lead Partner: Saint Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry from Russia
Partners: Saint Petersburg University from Russia, Transport Intergration Ltd from Russia, Institute of Radar Meteorology Ltd from Russia, Finnish Meteorological Institute from Finland and LUT-University from Finland

BIM-ICE CBC Project is presented on the International Forum of Contract Relations 4.5, 26.11.2020

26.11.2020 by groteski

BIM-ICE project press release

The Public Procurement Committee of St. Petersburg in collaboration with the Government of the Ivanov Region and Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPbGASU) has organized the 4th International Forum of Contract Relations. This time the Forum has been organized online on Zoom platfrom and has gathered more than 500 participants representing construction companies, regional and local committees, universities and government bodies. The topics discussed not only covered the new regulations and their specifics in the procurement sector, but also implementing BIM in construction and design.

One of the reports in the BIM section has been presented by Iurii Stolbikhin, BIM-ICE Porject Deputy Manager, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Municipal Services of SPbGASU. Iurii has presented the BIM-ICE Project and its current state and introduced possible cooperation spheres and roles for the construction companies.

Contact: Svetlana Petrova
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +7 898 1194 3094

Cross-border cooperation for improved stormwater handling and a good state of freshwater resources

by groteski

RAINMAN project press release

The prevention of urban flooding and preservation of freshwater resources are important issues – also in times of Covid-19 pandemic. Green, grey, and blue stormwater management solutions have to be combined in a sensible way to best tackle current and future rain events. And in cities that depend on groundwater as drinking water source, it is important to consider the impact of changing precipitation on surface water – groundwater interaction and potential consequences for water quality.

These are some of the results of the 3rd official Project Group Meeting and first completely web-based event of the RAINMAN Project. Thanks to the participants’ contribution and Mikkeli’s good preparation we had a successful meeting with news from the case areas, input from experts outside the project, and good conversation among project partners.
Read more on http://projects.gtk.fi/rainman/news/index.html?year=2020&number=13&newsType=In_focus

Contact: Johannes Klein, Geological Survey of Finland
Email: [email protected]

CBC in My Region – have your say by 11.12.2020

22.11.2020 by groteski

Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) between Finland and Russia is implemented by people and for the people, as part of our everyday life. The Managing Authority of the South-East Finland – Russia CBC 2014-2020 invite everyone having opinions and/or experiences of Finnish-Russian cooperation to have a say. We, together with our stakeholders, are very interested of all feedback to collect signals to keep up with the positive focus, to improve our services and to get tools for the further development of the programmes.

Go to Programme’s annual on-line survey (in English) open during 23.11.-11.12.2020 in the link Annual Survey 2020 and take few minutes to answer the questions.

We will share the key results of the surveys on our website at https://www.sefrcbc.fi/information-service/annual-surveys/

Warm thanks for your contribution!

Call for Tenders – Strategic Environmental Assessment

20.11.2020 by groteski

Central Baltic Programme, South-East Finland – Russia CBC Programme and Kolarctic CBC Programme jointly invite interested parties to submit a written proposal for performing the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the 2021-2027 programming period.

Deadline for tenders is 4th of December.

Terms of Reference and instructions to submit tender are made available on the web-site of CB Programme

For more information, contact
Central Baltic Programme
Merike Niitepõld, eMail: [email protected]
South-East Finland – Russia CBC Programme
Jukka-Pekka Bergman, eMail: [email protected]
Kolarctic CBC Programme
Riikka Oittinen, eMail: [email protected]

The Common Model of Ecological Status of Finland-Russia Intertraffic became one of the main results of the Green InterTraffic project

16.11.2020 by groteski

Green InterTraffic project press release

Developed in cooperation between Russia and Finland, The Common Model of Ecological Status of Intertraffic with meteorological parameters and environmental risks assessment on the base of GIS combines the main directions of the Green InterTraffic project and its achievements.

The important project outputs are presented on the Eco-Safety GIS tools. It presents the common Russian-Finnish green approaches and measures for environmental safety and transport safety of Intertraffic. The tools are open for public and they can be applied e.g. in road maintenance planning, trip scheduling and in decision-making.

We invite you to know with the Common Model at the link: http://en.greenintertraffic.ru/meteo/commonmodel/

This model could be used by all interested stakeholders for environmental and business risks mitigation. Work on its sections continues, and the final stage will be the preparation of the environmental risk assessment report and the start of the Educational complex.

Contact: Ludmila Karelina
Email: [email protected]

Project partners discussed of the key issues related to the development of the Digital Investment Platform with Finnish experts

5.11.2020 by groteski

Bringing Together project press release

On October 29, within the framework of the Bringing Together project, the online Workshop for Finnish representatives of the project’s target groups, dedicated to the development of the Russian-Finnish Digital Investment Platform was held. The meeting was moderated by Mr. Urho Blom, CEO of Eurofacts Oy. The event brought together project partners and invited experts.

Project researcher and Director of the Methodology Department of IPE LAB Ltd. Dr. Mikhail Kosoy made a presentation on creating the Common Digital Investment Space. The prototype of the Common digitalized investment database was also presented to the participants. Mr. Mihail Kurvinen, project researcher responsible for analytical work at Eurofacts Oy, presented a brief overview on Finnish based on-line business platforms, their users and services.

The project partners discussed with experts the real interests of Finnish target groups in cross-border cooperation with St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, the forms of their involvement that can be used within the framework of the Platform, and a number of other issues.

For more information, visit the project web-site.

SUSTECH project invites you to participate in the International Seminar “Sustainable Construction”

3.11.2020 by groteski

SUSTECH project press release

On November 27, in the frame of the Russian-Finnish project SUSTECH, the International Seminar «Sustainable Construction» will be held in an online format from 10:00 to 15:00 (msk). Finnish and Russian experts will present the results of their work in the area of sustainable construction and discuss the tendencies in the industry.

Agenda:
• Investigations of concrete with composite additives for the construction of amenities;
• Deformability studies of wood cellular structures;
• Design features of the structures of composite materials in the cross-border region;
• Circular economy materials and novel method development to produce recyclable and functional urban construction products.

To register as participant or speaker:
Please contact Maria Zhidkova, Project Manager/Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, by e-mail: [email protected]

BBC1 – Final of Business in Biotechnology and Circular Economy acceleration program

26.10.2020 by groteski

BBC1 project press release

28, October will be held online the final presentation of the project Business in Biotechnology and Circular Economy acceleration program.

In November, 2019 we announced the Interuniversity competition of research and innovation projects Business in Biotechnology and Circular Economy. In St. Petersburg were achieved more than 60 applications into 6 areas: Food technology, Agro-industrial complex technologies, Energy-saving technologies, Circular economy technologies, Biotechnologies for Healthcare, IT for Biotechnologies and Circular economy.

In April, 2020 there were 14 finalists of the competition who started the Acceleration program in a distance. Within 7 months they promote and improve their projects, speak with consumers and experts, research the market and tested their projects.

28th of October, 7 projects who successfully finished the acceleration program, will present their projects to Russian and Finish experts – representatives of innovation ecosystems of Finland and Russia.

Contact: Saija Tillgren, project manager
Email: [email protected]
Tel.: +358 5038 72691