Trade leads to innovation. Innovative ideas lead to prosperity. Innovation and prosperity. More trade is where it starts. Trade comes first.
The Baltic Sea Chambers of Commerce Association is a network of chambers of commerce around the Baltic Sea Region. We stand for more trade and integration.
In the report Priorities towards a Digital Single Market in the Baltic Sea Region you get an overview of the obstacles to a digital single market, and a series of policy recommendations to overcome the barriers. The key issues taken up in the report are e-Procurement, Public Sector Information and Open Data, Roaming and Online Intermediaries. The report is made in cooperation between, the Baltic Sea Chambers of Commerce Association and Baltic Development Forum. Main sponsor was Tillväxtverket.
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Speech at the baltech-nortech conference in Tallin at the Tallin Technical university, 16 june 2012. The conference gathers the rectors and key staff of the technical universities in the Nordic and baltic countries. BCCA secretary general Dr. Per Tryding made an intervention on the need to move from exchange between universities, to integration of them and from funding revenue to funding equity in higher technical education.
“The European knowledge society should be something which is produced by European engineers today, not the catalogue title of a history class in Bejing.”
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This is a reflection paper (december 2010) about private sector inclusion in EU Baltic Sea Region policy making.
The Baltic Development Forum is by far the largest policy event on Baltic Sea policy. At the summit in Vilnius (June 2010) a policy paper with recommendations will be presented to the governments. It is drafted by Copenhagen Economics, but commissioned by the BDF itself. As such it uses many soruces and resources and this is the BCCA contribution presented as a short memo.
Article by Mr Wolf Rüdiger Janzen,
former President of the Baltic Sea Chambers of Commerce Association
In this article Mr Janzen sketches a way forward for the Baltic Sea Region. He does so drawing on the roots of the development, which dates back to the 80ies – and even in some ways the 1970ies.
Download article: building_a_new_business_regiontext-janzen-2009-05-01__
4-May-2010
The EU Strategy needs a strategy. By Stephan Müchler, BCCA President
Download English version: muchler_bcca_wirtschaftsfaktor_ostsee
or German version: wirtschaftsfaktor_ostsee_muchler_mai_2010
Since the millennium, the BCCA has argued that there is potential to triple trade in the Baltic Sea Region in ten years. Even if China, India and other overseas markets have been growing rapidly, the bulk of every country’s trade is done in the neighborhood.
The Baltic sea regions share of Sweden’s export has for instance grown to close to half of all exports.
There are still huge untapped potential in Baltic Sea trade. Better infrastructure, implementation of a a single currency are among the more apparent. This holds true in spite of the current economic downturn following the 2008 financial crisis.
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The BCCA “Policy for Growth” report, is an attempt to profit from the distributed expertise gathered among the participants at the BDF Summit 2009. The BCCA asked Summit participants to grade the importance of seven policy areas for future long term growth. Four areas stand out as more important than the others:
There is wide agreement that the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea region as well as research and education policy of the EU are of large importance for growth in the long term. The latter is clearly where to put the money according to most policy makers.
Download this forecast here: bcca_policy_survey_report_v2-pdf
The BCCA has asked for a coherent Baltic Sea Region policy of the EU since the early 1990s. Here Mr Stephan Müchler, the president of the BCCA gives some perspectives on the policy.
From a conference in Rostock, 2009
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The book is a collection of Essays by prominence of Business and Politics. Among them Uffe Elleman-Jensen, Eckard van Hooven, Viktors Kulbergs, Günter Verheugen and many more.
The book was published on the occasion of the 10 year anniversary of the BCCA in 2002 and still holds relevance.
Please order Your copy here: bcca@handelskammaren.com
The book is an introduction to the different business cultures of the Baltic Sea Region markets. Each country is presented in an executive summary-style.
Topics such as greetings, how to use names and titles, pointers on general behavior, negotiation, women in Business and dress code are all covered.
The book is written by Salla Wadén. Foreword by Stephan Müchler (2nd edition).
Please order Your copy here: bcca@handelskammaren.com
This is a copy of power-points from recent presentations about the BCCA and the challenges ahead following the EU Baltic Sea Strategy.
Download presentation here: presentation_14_october_2009
The BCCA is a network open only to Chambers of Commerce in the Baltic Sea Region. It is run by its members. It has an elected Committee which consists fo the managers of some of the members.
The BCCA promotes trade and business relationships across the Baltic Sea Region. Over the years this has been done through action such as trade faies and conferences, through networks but also through information and analysis.
Contact us:
BCCA, c/o Handelskammaren,
Skeppsbron 2
SE-211 20 Malmö
+46 40 690 24 00
The BCCA has a committee, which is elected by the Annual General Conference. The Committee acts as a board. The office function of the BCCA follows the chairman.
Dr. Per Tryding acts as the secretary of the commitee.
The honorary president of the BCCA Assessor Wolf-Rüdiger Janzen is permanently adjourned.
The BCCA is open to chambers of commerce in the Baltic Sea Region. Here is a list of our current members.
