RIS3 in REMh - final event in Brussels

12:00 – 13:00

Welcoming lunch

13:00 – 14:00

Opening session – Welcoming remarks

• Charlina Vitcheva, Director, DG REGIO.G - Smart and Sustainable Growth and Southern Europe
• Markus Pieper, Member of European Parliament
• Alessandro Rainoldi, Head of Unit, JRC-IPTS, Knowledge for Growth Unit
• George Pavlides, Regional Governor of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace

Setting the scene - Overview of the project:  Objectives, main outcomes, impacts, barriers and challenges encountered

• Mark Boden –– JRC-IPTS, Project Leader of the REMTh Preparatory Action

(Moderator)

14:00 – 15:00

Panel Discussion – Implementing the RIS3 under uncertainty. Participants:

Presentation of the questions  for discussion– Elisabetta Marinelli (chair/moderator)

• Panagiotis Koudoumakis, REMTh Special Managing Authority for the Regional Operational Programme
• Evita Agalianou, DG REGIO – Greece and Cyprus
• Antonio Viader, Senior Innovation and Growth Advisor, Board of Critical Friends
• Theodora Kouloura, “Hellenic Fertilizers – ELFE”
• Ioannis Firbas, Director General - National Coordination Authority for ESIF
• Kourkoutas Ioannis, Democritus University of Thrace

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30

Panel discussion Implementing RIS3 in lagging regions – lessons for the future

Presentation of the questions  for discussion– Karel Haegeman (chair/moderator)

• Vassilis Pitsinigkos, REMTh Special Managing Authority
• Magdalene Härberle, Ministry of Finance and Economics Baden-Württemberg, Board of Critical Friends
• Marek Przeor, DG REGIO
• Roberta Dall’Olio, ERVET Emilia Romagna
• Stelios Kakoulidis - Thrace Group Ltd.

16:30 – 17:15

Concluding panel

• Alessandro Rainoldi, HoU  –  IPTS Knowledge for Growth Unit  (Chair)
• Alexis Charitsis - Deputy Minister of Economy and Development of Greece
• George Pavlides – Regional Governor of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace
• Sabine Bourdy – DG REGIO Greece and Cyprus
• Colin Wolfe, HoU – DG REGIO Competence Centre