On 3 September EPRC's Irene McMaster, Arno van der Zwet and Heidi Vironen led a workshop exploring approaches to building greater regional collaboration in the European Arctic and High North.
The workshop was the culmination of a project funded by the 2007-13 Northern Periphery Programme and led by the Scottish and Norwegian governments. The project aimed to establish models for knowledge-sharing, service delivery and funding across the area and illustrate how they could practically be operationalised, taking into account e.g. the need to ensure complementarity and the requirement to deliver meaningful results to stakeholders.
Productive discussions were based around a proposal for a mechanism aimed at providing demand-led: strategic foresight; knowledge exchange; programme/project brokerage.