Project BASAAR: Benchmarking Regions in a Globalising World
BASAAR is a joint project of eleven regional authorities in the Central Baltic Sea Region, evaluating the effects of globalisation. Uusimaa Regional Council is the Lead Partner of the project which has received funding from the Central Baltic Sea Interreg IV A Programme 2007-2013.
BASAAR - Baltic Sea - Asia Agenda for Regions in a Globalising World
The Central Baltic region is one of the leading regions in Europe with respect to innovation and technology. However, with the continued economic expansion in Asia, the competition is getting tougher. The long-term sustainability of the knowledge society in the Central Baltic region therefore depends on how well the region can adjust to the emerging world economic order.
The BASAAR project improves the capacity of Central Baltic regions to use cross-border cooperation as a way to adjust to globalisation.
In 2009, the BASAAR project developed a first set of draft scenarios for the relationship between Asia and the Central Baltic Sea Region by 2050. The scenarios were created after evaluating the level of globalization of the central Baltic Sea region by collecting local, regional and cross-border benchmark data and feedback from stakeholders. This set of scenarios will be further developed and used as a basis for developing a set of common actions for the region.
The BASAAR project ends in late 2010 with a conference in which the project presents the scenarios and the proposed political agenda.
Project Facts
Duration: 24 months 01/2009-12/2010
Total project budget: 1 323 702 €
ERDF: 1 014 256 €
Lead partner
Uusimaa Regional Council, Finland (Helsinki)
Contacts: www.wikivision.fi /basaar
Other partners
• City of Helsinki Urban Facts, Finland (Helsinki)
• Turku Science Park Ltd, Finland (Turku)
• Regional Council of Southwest Finland, Finland (Turku)
• City of Stockholm, Sweden (Stockholm)
• City of Uppsala, Sweden (Uppsala)
• Stockholm County Council, Office of Regional Planning and Urban Transportation, Sweden (Stockholm)
• Tallinn City Office, Estonia (Tallinn)
• Harju County Government, Estonia (Tallinn)
• Riga City Council, Development Department, Latvia (Riga)
• Riga Planning Region, Latvia (Riga)
