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MSP Workshop Preliminary Program 

VASAB High Level Expert and Stakeholders Workshop
on Maritime Spatial Planning Challenges in the Baltic Sea

Side event of the 7th Conference of BSR MinistersResponsible for Spatial Planning and Development

Thursday, 15 October, Vilnius, Hotel Radisson SAS Astorija

10:30 – 11:00 Registration, coffee

11:00 – 14:10 Session 1

 Opening - Mr Aleksandras Gordevičius, VASAB CSD chairman, Ministry of the Environment, Lithuania and Dr Nico Nolte, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Germany

Introduction - Mr. Andris Andrusaitis,
Moderator of the Workshop, Program Manager BONUS Baltic Organization Network for Funding Science EEIG 

 

 

From a Land-Sea to an Integrated Spatial Perspective: Overcoming the separation of MSP and TSP
Mr. Bernhard Heinrichs,
Vice President of the German Academy for Spatial Research and Planning
What is Maritime Spatial Planning in comparison with terrestrial spatial planning?
Are they both as different as usually believed?
Which approaches, methods and lessons of the terrestrial planning are to be taken along with developing the MSP?

Interventions on the topic

Developing Legislative Basis for the Baltic MSP: One System versus Integration of Different Systems
Mr. Jacek Zaucha,
Professor of Gdansk University
Where we are with development of the legislative basis of MSP in the Baltic?
What would be the priority tasks and optimal timeline to build such basis?

Interventions on the topic

Implementing Ecosystem Approach to Management in MSP
Ms. Mari Walls,
Director of Marine Centre in the Finnish Environment Institute
How to achieve the best synergy between the Baltic MSP and ecosystem approach to management of the sea-related human activities?

Interventions on the topic

 Knowledge Needs for MSP
Mr. Risto Kalliola,
Professor of Turku University
Which the most urgent knowledge needs is with regard to the MSP?
Which instruments of filling these gaps would be the most useful?
How to achieve the most efficient science-policy bridging with regards the MSP?

Interventions on the topic

Mr Sten Jerdenius, Swedish EU Presidency Ms Hermina Busschbach, EC DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
How the Baltic MSP development would complement and benefit of the EU process?
What would be the European-level added value of this development?

Interventions on the topic

14:10 – 14:40 Coffee break

14:40 – 16:30 Session 2

Panel discussion. Formulation of messages to the high political level.
Moderator Mr. Andris Andrusaitis, Program Manager BONUS Baltic Organization Network for Funding Science EEIG

16:30 – 17:30 Lunch buffet

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