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Title: MidNorway European Office


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Mid-Norway European Office
  • FMO, Budapest, 10.06.2005
  • Stein Mona, Head of Office

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Mid-Norway European Office
  • Nord-Trøndelag County Municipality
  • Sør-Trøndelag County Municipality

Trondheim Municipality Steinkjer Municipality
Nord-Trøndelag University College Sør-Trøndelag
University College Nord-Trøndelag Research
Institute
Sparebank1 Midt-Norge Nord-Trøndelag Electricity
Board
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General aim of the activity
  • Competence upgrading in European issues for
  • - enterprises
  • - RD institutions
  • - public authorities
  • Internationalisation of regional development
    strategies

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Trøndelag
  • Area 41 228 km2
  • Population 399 000
  • Cities Trondheim, Steinkjer, Namsos, Stjørdal,
    Røros

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Culture history
  • First settlements 9000 bc
  • Power base of the Vikings in the middle ages
  • Many historical sites rock carvings, castles,
    monastery ruins and burial mounds
  • Modern music, folklore and the well known
    Trønder- humour

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A living countryside
  • One of the most fertile regions in Norway
  • Laboratory for agricultural research
  • Increasing amount of niche products
  • New models for cooperation between farmers
  • Strong identity

7
Education and research
  • 1 university and 3 university colleges
  • Over 30 000 students
  • Scandinavias largest independent research
    institute, SINTEF
  • High-tech and medical research

8
Workforce distribution
  • Workforce 198 000
  • 6 in primary industries
  • 19 in secondary industries
  • 75 in service industries

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Trøndelag in European co-operation, Hungarian
regions
  • Living Countryside
  • Rural development. Infrastructure, economy,
    identity, moblisation.
  • Regional innovation
  • International projects, young
    entrepreneurship, innovation clusters, networking
    between education and business development.

10
Trøndelag in European co-operation, Hungarian
Regions
  • Regional identity
  • - Preserving cultural heritage
  • - Preserving historical monuments

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Trøndelag in European co-operation, Hungarian
Regions
  • Regional business development
  • - Clusters, public - private partnership of
    business development
  • - B2B events
  • Regional planning development
  • - Cooperation between local and regional
    authorities

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Where are we now?
  • Different point of departure, common challenges
  • Different recent historical background, common
    future
  • Common market. Economy, research, development
  • Mutual interest of co-operation
  • Framework is beeing put into force
  • The possibility is there, our own fantasy sets
    the limits

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Thank you for your attention!
  • www.mid-norway.no
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