City Regional Connectivity as a Motor for Competitiveness in a Globalizing World – Rotterdam 29 November–1 December 2006 29-11-2006 Introduction Belonging to the 'core region' of the EU and containing two important
'Gateways to Europe' Schiphol Airport and the Port of Rotterdam, the geographic
location of the Randstad Region and the city of Rotterdam is excellent. Moreover
throughout the years this Region has successfully exploited this position
through good infrastructures. But new challenges arise regarding increasing city
region competition on a global scale, the development of new transportation and
ICT technologies and the conflict between the advantages of good connections and
the disadvantages concerning environmental issues.
Description
Prominent speakers from all of Europe will give their view on these matters.
We will have presentations from researchers, consultants and companies on trends
in infrastructure and how cities can develop strategies to benefit from this in
an economic positive way. Partner cities will tell how they successfully
position their region internationally. Finally, Rotterdam will demonstrate how
it improves the economic performance of its important nodes like the port, the
regional airport and the central station area.
The conference is organised by COMPETE, a network of European city-regions
established with the aim of exchanging best-practices on how to improve
city-region competitiveness. The members of the network are Barcelona, Dortmund,
Helsinki, Lyon, Munich, Rotterdam and Sheffield. Supported through European
Interreg IIIC funding, the seven European cities started to work together in
October 2004 to develop a stronger evidence base with a view to develop robust
and transferable models for successful city-region competitiveness.
COMPETE focuses on five key drivers identified by the earlier study and
directly relevant to the Lisbon Agenda:
Programme Location
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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