BARENTS PRESS ANNUAL MEETING IN LEVI 5.-8.5.2011
BARENTS PRESS INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL MEETING IN LEVI 5.-8.5.2011 // DRAFT 04.04.2011
THURSDAY May 5
Arrival at Levi | Check in at the hotel
Possibility to use the spa facilities or to go skiing or downhill skiing
Dinner at 20.00 hours
Youth meeting
FRIDAY May 6
Wake up | Possibility to have a morning swim
Breakfast
8.30 – 9.00
Registration
09.00 Opening words, Robert Sandström, chairman, Barents Press International
9.00 – 11.00
Arctic session 1
Moderator: Timo Sipola
9.00 – 10.00
EU and Arctic information center, Professor Paula Kankaanpää, Director of Arctic Centre at
the University of Lapland.
High North and Borders, Dr Aileen A. Espíritu, Director of the Barents Institute, Kirkenes (
Canada).
Finland’s arctic strategy, Hannu Halinen, Ambassador for Arctic Affairs, Ministry for Foreign
Affairs of Finland.
Arctic cooperation from the point of view of the Barents regional council, Per Wallén, Head
of the Swedish Barents Secretariat.
The point of view of youth on the Arctic regions, Margarita Bogdanova, student, University of Petrozavodsk.
10.00 -11.00 Panel discussion
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee, Hotel Levitunturi
11.30 – 14.00
Geological session 2
(Bus trip to the Suurikuusikko mine)
Introduction to the mining boom that is going on in the North
Presentation of the mine
A tour of the mine
Lunch at the Suurikuusikko mine
14.00 – 17.00
Barents Cafe session 3
Moderator; Alpo Merilä
14.00 – 16.00 Development of the Barents region in the 1990’s and 2000’s
Welcome to Barents Café, Regis Rouge-Oikarinen, Research Manager, ThinkBarents
Development of Swedish Barents, Professor Ulf Wiberg, Head of department, Department of
Social and Economic Geography, Umeå University
Development of Norwegian Barents, Frode Mellemvik,. Director, High North Center Bodö (not confirmed)
Development of Russian Barents, Doctor Olga Buch, professor, director general of Arctic Center of Training Specialists, editor of magazine “Shelfinfo”
Development of Finnish Barents, Esko Lotvonen, County Governor of Lapland
The Kainuu self-governance experiment, Doctor Eeva Mäntymäki, communication manager, Joint
authority of Kainuu Region
Coffee and fruit
16.00 – 17.00 Panel discussion
17.00 – 20.00 Possibility to use the spa facilities or to go skiing or downhill skiing
21.00 Dinner | Music at Hotel Levitunturi
SATURDAY May 7
Wake up
Possibility to have a morning swim
Breakfast
09.00 – 12.00
Barents media session 4
Moderator: Outi Torvinen
09.00 – 11.00
Development of the media in the Barents region in the 1990’s and 2000’s.
Development in Sweden, Karin Sjöberg , universitetsadjunkt, Luleå University of
Technology, ledamot, Svenska Publicistklubben board for Norrbotten.
Development in Norway, Gunnar Sætra, journalist, Arne Store, journalist.
Development Russia, Elena Larionova, Journalist, Coordinator, Barents Press Office,
Murmansk.
Development Finland, Doctor Erkki Hujanen Community Producer, Newspaper Kaleva.
Development of indigenous people’s media, Kristina Henriksen, Advisor,
Barentssekretariatet Kirkenes.
Arctic media education, Esa Viippola, media student, Oulu University of Applied Science.
Coffee and fruit
11.00 – 12.00 Panel discussion
12.00 – 14.30 Tourism session 5
The logistic future of the Barents region, Tero Taskila , Chief Commercial Officer, Air Baltic.
Tourism as an employer, Paula Grekelä, Regional Manager for Oulu Region and Lapland, Service
Union United PAM.
Tourism in Levi, Ari Aspia, Director, Hotel Levitunturi.
Sightseeing in Levi Tarja Syrjänen, Marketing director, Hotel Levitunturi.
Lunch on terrain
14.30 – 17.30
Media session 6
Moderator: Sari Pelttari-Heikka
14.30 – 15.30
Why do we find Barents interesting? Arto Nieminen, Chairman of the Finnish Journalist
Union
Why do we not find Barents interesting? Kyösti Karvonen, Managing editor, Newspaper
Kaleva
Future prospects of the regional media in Russia, Pavel Gutiontov, Secretary of the Russian
Journalist Union
The Webinar project of Barents Press Russia, Anatoly Tsykangov, journalist, head of the
Karelian Journalist Union
Cross Border Co-operation in the North, Terttu Savolainen, Head, Regional State
Administrative Agency of Northern Finland
15.30 -16.00 Coffee and fruit
16.00 – 17.30
The tabloid reform in Alma Media, Heikki Lääkkölä, Editor-in-chief, Pohjolan Sanomat.
Media in Murmansk and Archangels seen with Finnish eyes, Sari Pöyhönen, The Murmansk
Office of the Consulate General of Finland in St. Petersburg.
Barents Mediasphere, Markku Heikkilä, Head of Science Communications, Arctic Centre at
the University of Lapland.
Reports of the national boards
Youth commentary, Adam Zetterquist, journalist, Sweden.
Headlines for next two years of Barents Press, new chairman Morten Ruud, NRK (Norway)
17.30 – 19.30 Cultural session 7
Bus to Kittilä centre
Film education in Lapland,
Presentation of the film: Steam of Life (81 min).
Possibility to use the spa facilities or to go skiing or downhill skiing
3 (4)
21.00 Dinner at Hotel Levitunturi
Music special
SUNDAY May 8
Breakfast
Checking out of the rooms
10.00 – 13.00 Forestry session 8
Metsähallitus - a state enterprise: Buses to an interesting site. Forestry carrier working on a
logging site. A tourist attraction in the environment. How to match tourism and forestry. Kellokas
Visitor Centre. The controversial role of Metsähallitus (a state-run enterprise whose tasks are
divided into business activities and public administration duties) Lunch at Kellokas. Kii Korhonen,
Regional Manager.
Leaving for home
