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STRAKKS conference
The next Nordic City Network event will be the closing conference of the STRAKKS project – a collaborating EU project between Aalborg, Denmark and Lillestrøm, Norway. The conference will take place in Aalborg on the 22nd and 23rd of May, 2012.
We welcome all members of the Nordic City Network – planners, politicians, the business sector, the cultural sector, education and research and others – to take part in a discussion on the final results of the project. Important learning in terms of integrating business and urban development and how to anchor pilot projects in the daily planning process will be discussed at the conference. Please reserve the dates now!
White Paper Tromsø
NCN MATERIAL: In August 2011, Nordic City Network, gathered in Tromsø for a seminar regarding "The Network City" (Netværksbyen). Today solutions are not only found internally within organizations, but rather, people are, in different ways, interacting in networks with one another. The task in the modern knowledge city is not only to engage different sectors, but to strengthen the interaction between traditionally separated sectors such as business, education/research, culture and politics. Here is the White Paper from the seminar. Read more about the seminar here.
25 examples from a knowledge city
Over the last decades the city of Norröping has undergone some vital changes. The city has evolved from an industrial city, a Swedish Manchester, to where it is today, a knowledge city. The brochure "25 examples from a knowledge city" tells the story of this thrilling development.
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Recent event
Nordic City Network is strengthening the political leadership in our cities by establishing a political forum of local politicians. The first meeting will take place in Malmö on September 9th 2011 with participants from both administrative and political level in our cities.
Recent event
The seminar Netværksbyen (The Network City) was held the 28th–30th August in Tromsø, Norway. Here is the program for the meeting.
White Paper Norrköping
NCN MATERIAL: Nordic City Network is moving on towards the next step and wishes to put urban development onto the political agenda. But what is political leadership today, how do politicians in the Nordic countries look upon urban development and what challenges are connected with political leadership? A set of questions were raced and discussed at the seminar in Norrköping, Political leadership and urban development, in April 2011. Now the White Paper from the meeting is finished. Read it today.
Political leadership on the agenda
NCN SEMINAR: In the first week of April planners and politicians from the Nordic City Network gathered in Norrköping, Sweden to discuss political leadership and the challenges facing our modern cities as they move from an industrial based economy to one driven by knowledge and innovation.