Berlin Conference 12th January 2012
Draft Agenda (19/12/2011)
Advancing Maritime Spatial Planning:
Results from the BaltSeaPlan project and beyond
09:00
Registration of Participants (Foyer)
Animation: Become a Maritime Spatialist within 10 minutes…. (Conference Room)
Block 1
Maritime Spatial Planning Policy
09:30
Welcome
Monika Breuch-Moritz, President, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
09:40
10:00
Maritime Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development of the Sea –
Examples from Germany
MdB Enak Ferlemann, State-Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and
Urban Development
Maritime Spatial Planning in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
and its international dimension
Ina-Maria Ulbrich, State-Secretary, Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and State
Development, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
10:10
Initiatives by the European Commission to promote MSP
Haitze Siemers, Head of Unit, DG Mare E.1, Maritime Policy Baltic and North Sea
10:35
Maritime Spatial Planning in the Baltic Sea – current initiatives
Anita Mäkinen, Co-Chair, Helcom / VASAB working group on MSP
11:00
Coffee Break (Foyer)
Animation: Become a Maritime Spatialist within 10 minutes…. (Conference Room)
11:30
BaltSeaPlan and its Vision 2030
Nico Nolte, Project Head, BaltSeaPlan, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
12:00
Advancing MSP – Is the Baltic Sea on the right track?
Panel
Discussion
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Haitze Siemers, DG Mare, European Commission
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Andrzej Cieslak, Maritime Office Gdynia, Poland
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Christian Dahlke, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Germany
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Anita Mäkinen, Transport Safety Agency, Finland
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Alda Nikodemusa, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional
Development, Latvia
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Berit Pettersson, Sea and Water Authority, Sweden
Moderator: Brent Goff, journalist
13:00
Lunch (Foyer)
Exhibition BaltSeaPlan MSP Pilots / Demonstration of GIS Boundary Software (Foyer)
Presentation of BaltSeaPlan Film on MSP (Conference Room)
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Agenda of the Agenda, Berlin Conference, 12nd January 2012
Block 2
Turning MSP into practice
14:00
National Strategies and their influence on Maritime Space
Jacek Zaucha, Maritime Institute of Gdansk, Poland
14:35
Stakeholder Involvement for MSP – Conclusions from BaltSeaPlan Pilots
Anda Ruskule, BEF Latvia and Tim-Ake Petz, WWF Germany
15:10
Modeling for MSP – practical examples on how to use models in the MSP process
Christian Mohn, NERI, Denmark
15:45
Coffee Break
16:15
The special case of how to consider fishery in MSPs –
challenges and opportunities
Jochen Lamp, WWF Baltic Sea Office, Stralsund
16:50
MSP in transboundary areas – the case of Pomeranian Bight (DE, PL, SE, DK)
Bettina Käppeler, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Germany
17:25
Approaching MSP for offshore areas – the case of Middle Bank (PL, SE)
Jacek Zaucha, Maritime Institute of Gdansk, Poland
18:00
Final Conclusions – beyond BaltSeaPlan
Nico Nolte, Project Head, BaltSeaPlan, BSH, Germany
19:30
Joint Dinner (location to be announced)
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