Annual meeting 2010 opened
Barents Press 16 annual meeting in Bodø is open. Robert Sandström, Board Chairman, Barents Press International, and Arne Egil Tønset, Board Chairman, Barents Press Norway, opened the meeting with a short speech.
For the first time we have an annual meeting without Jelena Larionova, Chairman BP Russia and project coordinator of BPI .
Photo: Robert Sandström
Arne Egil Tønset, Board Chairman, Barents Press Norway, opened the meeting with a greetings from Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norwegian Foreign Affairs 1987-1989 and 1990-1993 and promoter to the Barents Region 1993.
Arne Egil Tønset deliver greetings from Jelena Larionova and Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norwegian diplomat and former cabinet member.
Highlight today
• Future Security and Defense Issues in the North – opening statements and discussion:
Photo: Robert Sandström
Mediator: Knut Eirik Olsen, journalist, NRK Nordland
Kristian Åtland, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment
Grigorij Pasko, freelance journalist, Moscow
Photo: Robert Sandström
Johs Kalvemo, NRK Sami Radio. Active in the discussions about future security and defense issues in the North.
• Youth Chat – the way ahead for young journalists in the Barents Region:
Sari Pöyhönen, Finland
Dag Kristoffersen, Norway
Inna Rozhina, Russia
Representatives from Nordland County Youth Assembly
Photo: Robert Sandström
• Guided tour of the Norwegian Aviation Museum – focus on The Cold War
Photo: Robert Sandström
• Boat trip to Værran
• Guiding by Torghatten Nord
• Presentation of the Barents Scholarship Project 2009 – a study of Russian journalists’ working conditions:
Kjersti Sjursen Lien, Ida Kroksæther and Beth Mørch Pettersen, former students with the
Journalist Programme, Bodø University College
• Presentation of The Barents Secretariat’s travel support programme for journalists:
Trude Pettersen, The Barents Secretariat
• The Barents Press scholarship strategy – opening statement and debate:
Mediator: Arne Egil Tønset, Barents Press Norway
• Opening to The East – 25 years of cooperation and challenges:
Trud Berg, Executive of Education, Nordland County Government
• Courses and exchange programmes for journalists in the Barents Region:
• Dinner at Radisson
Social gathering throughout the evening.
Robert Sandström
