Speakers

Local governments and businesses – a partnership of convenience

Local governments and businesses – a partnership of convenience

Preferable directions for the development of co-operation between local governments and representatives of science and business

Investments that bring benefits to businesses and the community alike

Joint initiatives of local governments and the business sector: PPP – good practices in Poland (concessions, revitalization, service privatisation, local currency)

Experiences and models worth popularising. Instructive failures

Local bureaucracy as a deterrent for entrepreneurs

Can businesses help local governments address social challenges?

Funding investment and EU funds

Funding investment and EU funds

• The implementation stage of investments co-funded from EU resources. Changes in the new financial framework
• EU funds for infrastructural investments in the 2014-2020 framework. How to put them to best use?
• Issuing bonds or taking out a loan from EIB? Effective ways to acquire resources
• Investors as a source of capital and ideas: models and partnership examples
• EU feedback instruments
• What to expect after 2020?

The new EU budget

The new EU budget

• Opportunities, needs, priorities. What should we give up?
• Multi-speed Europe in the context of common finances: facts, figures, ambitions
• A new vision for redressing European disproportions?
• How much money for cohesion? How much competition?