Moderators:
KOSKI Eero, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland
MARKKOLA Susanna, Program manager of culture tourism, Visit Finland, Business Finland

• KAIVOSOJA Riitta, Director General, Department of Art and Cultural Policy, Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland
• HIETASAARI Kristiina, Director, Head of Product and Content/Visit Finland, Business Finland
• DOMINIONI Stefano, Executive Secretary, Enlarged Partial Agreement (EPA) on Cultural Routes, Council of Europe; Director, European Institute of Cultural Routes (EICR)

Keynote speech

• LIPPONEN Paavo, Former Prime Minister of Finland

Family picture

• METZGER Constanze, Senior Project Officer, Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes, Council of Europe

• Workshop 1 | The development of new Cultural Routes in the Baltic Sea Region: Modern movement.
  Moderator: BERGER Laura, MA, Doctor of Science (Architecture), Department of Architecture School of Arts, design and architecture, Aalto University
  • Speaker: PETRULIS Vaidas, Chair, Baltic Sea Region Working Group on 20th century Built Heritage
• Workshop 2 | The development of new Cultural Routes in the Baltic Sea Region: Maritime heritage / Traces of Ice Age
  Moderator: PIEKARSKA DURAJ Lucja, PhD, Expert on Cultural Routes, Assistant Professor, Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University
  • Speaker: TIKKANEN Sallamaria, Chair, Baltic Sea Region Working Group on Underwater Heritage
• Workshop 3 | Facilitating common impact: macro-regional and national structures to strengthen the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
  Moderator: LESZCZYNA-RZUCIDLO Magda, PhD, Expert on the Baltic Sea regional cooperation in "Pomorskie in the European Union" Association and Euroregion Baltic
  • Speaker: KOKKONEN Pellervo, Director of Tourism Development, Savonlinna Development Services Ltd

• Workshop 1 | The development of new Cultural Routes in the Baltic Sea Region: Modern movement
  Moderator: BERGER Laura, MA, Doctor of Science (Architecture), Department of Architecture School of Arts, design and architecture, Aalto University
  Speakers:
  • LINDH Tommi, Chief Executive Officer, Alvar Aalto Foundation
  • RUPENHEITE Agnese, Coordinator, Baltic Region Heritage Committee (BRHC); Deputy head Cultural heritage policy division, Latvian National Heritage Board
  • CERNY Philipp, Project Manager, Iron Curtain Trail
  • BEDOUELLE Pierre, Impressionisms Routes (Cultural Route of the Council of Europe)
• Workshop 2 | The development of new Cultural Routes in the Baltic Sea Region: Maritime heritage / Traces of Ice Age
  Moderator: PIEKARSKA DURAJ Lucja, PhD, Expert on Cultural Routes, Assistant Professor, Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University
  Speakers:
  • STEVNS MATSON Ea, Manager, The Vikings Route (Cultural Route of the Council of Europe)
  • HARLEVI Inger, Manager, The Hansa (Cultural Route of the Council of Europe)
  • LAURITSEN Anders, Project Manager, Ice Age
• Workshop 3 | Facilitating common impact: macro-regional and national structures to strengthen the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
  Moderator: LESZCZYNA-RZUCIDLO Magda, PhD, Expert on the Baltic Sea regional cooperation in "Pomorskie in the European Union" Association and Euroregion Baltic
  Speakers:
  • GAILITE HOLMBERG Ilze, Senior Adviser, Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture (NDPC)
  • PUODZIUVIENE Rugile, Chief Officer, Department of Creative Sectors and International Culture Policy Ministry of Culture of Lithuania
  • LEINONKOSKI Heli, President, Alvar Aalto Foundation; Administrative Director, City of Jyväskylä
  • LØVRØD Hans Morten, The Route of Saint Olav Ways (Cultural Route of the Council of Europe)

• 18:15 Thematic Helsinki excursion by tram
• 19:30 Reception at the City Hall hosted by the City of Helsinki

Moderators:
METZGER Constanze, Senior Project Officer, Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes, Council of Europe
LEHTIMÄKI Marianne, Regional expert on cultural heritage and routes; former Coordinator, Baltic Region Heritage Committee

• Workshops follow-up: report on recommendations
  • BERGER Laura, MA, Doctor of Science (Architecture), Department of Architecture School of Arts, design and architecture, Aalto University
  • PIEKARSKA DURAJ Lucja, PhD, Expert on Cultural Routes, Assistant Professor, Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University
  • LESZCZYNA-RZUCIDLO Magda, PhD, Expert on the Baltic Sea regional cooperation in "Pomorskie in the European Union" Association and Euroregion Baltic
• Support, good practices and work plans for 2020
  Speakers:
  • MAŚLANKIEWICZ Natalia, Coordinator, European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region Policy Area (EUSBSR PA) Culture, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Poland
  • WILLIAMS Kaarina, Senior Adviser for regional identity, Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS)
  • SIRAVA Inese, Director of Tourism Department, Investment and Development Agency of Latvia

• DOMINIONI Stefano, Executive Secretary, Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes, Council of Europe; Director, European Institute of Cultural Routes (EICR)
• KARVONEN Minna, Director, Division for Art and Cultural Heritage, Department for Art and Cultural Policy, Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland

Networking lunch

Social programme

• 14:15 Departure for the Aalto House and Studio Aalto, the former architect’s office completed in 1955
• 14:30 Guided visits to the Atelier and the Aalto House