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The UK Nordic Baltic Summit took place on the 19 and 20 January 2011. Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed Prime Ministers from the five Nordic and three Baltic countries to the Summit which was also be attended by policy innovators and business leaders from the UK and the Nordic-Baltic region.

“This meeting brought together people and ideas from nine countries that face common challenges. We came together in London to listen and to learn and to capture ideas, the kind of ideas that can make our societies better places for our citizens to live in.”
Prime Minister David CameronThe meeting, the first of its kind, brought together Prime Ministers, policy innovators, entrepreneurs and business leaders from the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to discuss how best to boost economic growth, enterprise and job creation while improving people’s wellbeing. Delegates were asked to share examples of policy and business innovation during the Summit.
We have published the presentations shared by delegates on this website. We’d very much welcome your comments and feedback.
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Technology & Innovation
- ITT Breakthrough Initiatives
- Digital single market as a new engine of Europe’s growth
- Enhancing democracy & participation in society through e-elections & other e-initiatives
- Digital welfare meets open government
- Reducing the digital gap in Latvia: think social
- Apps; The next biggest media
- How talent and innovation can recover the music industry
- The Nokia Technopolis Innovation Mill
- Peer to Peer: A better way of lending and borrowing
- Let’s get more innovation out of publicly funded research
- Improving 21st century learning
- Cooperative innovation to eliminate language barriers
- Self learning software
- United Efforts to Achieve More
- Improving health services & people’s health through electronic & digital policy tools
- Open access to public databases
Jobs, Family & Gender Equality
- Success through mentoring
- Horizontal work to combat social exclusion of youth
- Equality pays
- Job first, social inclusion, new skills for new jobs
- More women in the workforce – what to learn from Sweden
- We want ‘working families everywhere’
- Social return
- Small population, Big Society…?
- Entrepreneurship education as a key tool for job creation
- Single-sex classrooms; a way towards equality
- How to combine theoretical & practical workplace training
- Ageing: a life less ordinary
- Job creation and innovation
Green Economy & Sustainable Business
- GreenRiders: a journey towards sustainable transportation
- Towards carbon neutral municipalities
- Practical solutions to environmental challenges
- Efficient offshore wind implementation
- The role of business beyond sustainability
- EcoBonds – growing green energy
- Paying the public to recycle
- New ways to speed up energy savings
- Creating sustainable winners
- Green gourmet economy: Slow Food flies airBaltic
- Entrepreneurship and challenge of the cultural heritage
- Synergy of IT and Life Sciences in testing for new medical treatments and control of the chemical environment
- Smart Grid Gotland
- Biotech Innovation Based on Arctic Marine Bioactive Compounds
- Smart grid: IT can boost Green Growth
- Realising Total Sustainability In Europe’s Energy Supply
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Iceland
Latvia
Lithuania
Norway
Sweden
United Kingdom