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Logistics and Customs Brokers Association
Riga City Council, City Development department
Transport and Telecommunication Institute
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
City of Pruszcz Gdański
Polish Logistics Association
Linköping University, Linköping School of Management,
Logistics Management
Östsam Regional Development Council
Transportcentrum AB
Non profit training and research center of adult
education "Protey"
North Western Russia Logistics Development and
Information Center ILOT
Saint Petersburg Government Committee of
Transport-Transit Policy
Turku School of Economics
(TSE) is a public university in the field of
business science. Project management is with the TSEBA
Logistics (staff of 15), with extensive research and
policy-making experience. Other contributing units
comprise SME Institute, Pan-European Institute
specialising in Russian markets & Finland Futures
Research Center, researching alternative futures and
related challenges/opportunities in policy making, incl.
regional planning foresight studies. TSE Project Unit
has worked in over 100 EU co-funded projects.
Homepage:
www.tse.fi/english/
Contact
Turku School of Economics (Lead
Partner)
LogOn Baltic Project Office
Rehtorinpellonkatu 3
FI-20500 TURKU
FINLAND
Project Director Prof. Lauri Ojala
phone +358 2 4814 243
mobile +358 50 502 7031
e-mail lauri.ojala@tse.fi
Development Centre of Salo Region is an
organisation owned by 11 municipalities. It provides
regional development and co-operation related services
for its owners. It consists of units of regional
development, enterprise services and municipality
services. It benefits from the project through
information on possibilities to develop logistics and
ICT competence in the region with a strong
telecommunications industry cluster. It serves as
dissemination and data collection channel with local
businesses. Logistics-related spatial planning is one of
its current key priorities.
Contact person: Rikumatti Levomäki
Homepage:
http://kehittamiskeskus.salonseutu.fi/english/
ICT Turku Ltd. is part of Turku Science Park and
a cluster focused on information and communications
technology. The goal of ICT Turku is to develop the ICT
cluster in Southwest Finland into an internationally
successful entity of actors. The goal of ICT Turku is
perfectly in line with the project objectives. It has a
network comprised of more than 1400 companies and units
of the ICT field which will be used as dissemination and
data collection channel. ICT Turku has participated in
Interreg II C projects E-18 co-operation and Baltic
Palette.
Contact person: Sirpa Simola
Homepage:
www.turkusciencepark.com
Loimaa Regional Development Centre is a business
service unit owned by 10 municipalities. It works with
regional development and aims at enhancing preconditions
for a diverse business environment. It gets rigorous
information about the possibilities to develop logistics
and ICT competence in the semi-rural region and serves
as dissemination and data collection channel to the
local businesses. Logistics-related spatial planning is
one of its current key priorities.
Contact person: Pertti Pulli
Homepage:
www.loimaanseutu.fi/kehittamiskeskus/
Pilot Turku Ltd is a development company owned by
the City of Turku. It focuses on promoting the
international logistics operations in the Turku Region.
The purpose of the organisation is to provide the
customers with a single service channel for contacting
all decision-makers and actors, thus lowering the
thresholds of language, culture and bureaucracy. Pilot
Turku provides its logistics competence and contacts to
the project. It also serves as a dissemination channel
and data collection channel to the local businesses.
They have previously participated in Interreg projects
NeLoC and InLoC.
Contact person: Tuomas Mikkola
Homepage:
www.pilotturku.com
Regional Council of Southwest Finland is a joint
municipal authority which functions in accordance with
the principles of municipal self-government, operating
as the authority on regional development as well as the
region’s planning and lobbying organisation. In LogOn
Baltic especially Regional Council’s knowledge on the
regional spatial planning will be an essential part. The
Council also is a direct connection to other local
authorities and policy makers. At the moment they are
hosting the South Finland Coastal Zone Interreg IIIA
Programme.
Contact person: Eero Löytönen
Homepage:
www.varsinais-suomi.fi
TEDIM is a joint organ of the Ministries of
Transport around the Baltic Sea. It is a development
forum for (i) logistics co-operation between the EU and
Russia, as well as between the EU Member States, (ii)
dissemination of best practices in transport and
logistics and (iii) use of telematics in transport and
logistics. A hallmark of TEDIM projects is a unique
co-operation between private and public sector. TEDIM
joins as an advisory partner with the main task to reach
out to all Ministries of Transport in the BSR with LogOn
Baltic results.
Contact person: Tuija Maanoja
Homepage:
www.tedim.com
Turku Region Development Centre is a public development organisation
comprising 18 municipalities in Southwest Finland. TAD
Centre’s main objective is to create an environment that
promotes dynamic enterprise activities in Turku region
and to co-ordinate business policies in the region. TAD
Centre participates and co-ordinates strategic
development projects to support and create the growth in
the region, incl. many logistics and ICT projects. TAD
Centre has been a partner in several EU projects,
including Interreg project the Baltic Business Network
and ESR project HighTech Way.
Contact person: Heidi Leppimäki
Homepage:
www.turunseutu.net
Department of Geography at University of Turku
brings research competence on regional planning and
GIS-analysis into the project. The Department's
extensive applied research provides society with
specific regional knowledge to fulfil the needs of
planning and decision-making. Urban geography is one of
the strongest fields of research, including different
research programmes of future urban developments and
urban renewal processes, so this is an opportunity to
exploit the knowledge in practice.
Contact person: Harri Andersson
Homepage:
www.sci.utu.fi/maantiede
Business Association of Wismar (WWG) represents a
regional association of enterprises in the Wismar area
where the majority of the companies can be characterised
as SME's. As a partner in some national projects in the
field of maritime and wood related logistics and ICT,
WWG will mainly contribute to the empiric part of the
project covering the Mecklenburg area. The partner will
furthermore integrate its experience and its economic
expertise in logistics and ICT by developing concepts
and action plans for the regional development based on
the project results.
Contact person: Nataliya Korzhynska
Homepage:
www.wwg-wismar.de
The Federal association of SME's is the biggest
German association of enterprises with sections all over
Germany. The participating section represents
enterprises in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The partner will contribute a
representative picture of the logistical and related ICT
needs of their enterprises and will guarantee the full
coverage of the empiric results of the project. The
experience and the economic expertise of the partner
will safeguard the development of applicable new
concepts & action plans for the regional development
based on the project results.
Contact person: Wolf Arnold
Homepage:
www.bvmw-nord.de
Kühne School of Logistics and Management GmbH (formerly Hamburg School of Logistics (HSL) is an
innovative public-private partnership between the
Hamburg University of Technology and the Kuehne
Foundation of Schindellegi, CH. They aim to foster
excellence in their study, research, and professional
programs in order to contribute toward the development
of management and logistics studies driving their
academic community to the achievement of innovative,
useful and successful solutions. HSL will participate in
LogOn Baltic as WP3 leader with their expertise in
logistics research. They will also contribute to
workshops and the dissemination.
Contact person: Prof. Wolfgang Kersten
Homepage:
www.kuehneschool.de
Ministry for Transport, Building and Regional
Development M-V has a wide experience as a partner
as well as a lead partner in several Interreg, Phare and
TACIS projects focused on regional development and
spatial planning; e.g. SuPortNet. The Ministry has been
one of the driving forces behind the VASAB cooperation.
Experience from the role as a spatial planning authority
in M-V and from spatial planning cooperation in BSR will
contribute to the project, safeguarding project’s
direction towards applicable results for daily practice
in spatial planning and regional development around the
BSR.
Contact person: Karl Schmude
Homepage:
www.mv-regierung.de/vm/
Wismar University is an experienced partner in
national and international projects. Among others, the
participating business department of the university has
been taking part in international projects focused on
entrepreneurship, development & internationalisation of
SME's, maritime logistics and regional development (e.g.
Baltic Business Development Network). They will
participate in the project as WP1 leader and will
coordinate the contribution of the Mecklenburg partners.
Furthermore the analytic work will be done in
cooperation with WWG and BVMW within the empiric part of
the project.
Contact person: Prof. Gunnar Prause
Homepage:
www.hs-wismar.de
The Growth
Initiative Süderelbe AG focuses on promoting
economic growth and employment in the Southern Hamburg
Metropolitan Region. With a cross-border cluster
strategy the Süderelbe AG enhances the innovative and
competitive position of local enterprises.
Regional networking as well as successful corporation
between businesses, service providers and universities
provides an excellent basis for a strong and competitive
location and its development. With emphasis on logistics
the Growth Initiative Süderelbe AG will participate in
LogOn Baltic as a subcontracted partner of the HSL -
Hamburg School of Logistics.
Contact person: Dr. Jürgen Glaser
Homepage:
www.suederelbe.info
FDT has an in-depth knowledge and experience in
EU transport and logistics and has carried out numerous
studies, projects and implementation projects in Europe.
FDT has worked for many years with national governments
and authorities and has thus a strong network all over
Europe on public and private level, which will be
utilised in the project. In LogOn Baltic FDT will
contribute with its expertise in transport and logistics
and project management with references to the following
projects: NMC II, InLoC, NeLoC, Baltic Tangent, Sutranet,
Decision Support, BaSIM, FV-2000 and SURFF.
Contact person: Kent Bentzen
Homepage:
www.fdt.dk
Estonian Logistics Association has as members a
large group of Estonian companies. As a partner in LogOn
Baltic it will help in the data gathering providing
information of its member companies and disseminating
the results of the project through its Estonian wide
network. The association and its members will benefit
from the project on long term because they have an
opportunity to impact indirectly on the future regional
development programmes.
Contact person: Paul Illimar
Homepage:
www.logi.ee
Tallinn is the capital and with its over 400 000
inhabitants the largest city of Estonia. Tallinn City
Government aims at improving the competitiveness of the
Estonian capital region. Its representatives will
participate in the workshops directed to the regional
development bodies. The City’s Development Direrctor,
Mr.Urmas Hallika is personally involved in LogOn Baltic
to ensure that the results will directly benefit Tallinn
region’s strategic development.
Contact person: Inga Skurihhin
Homepage:
www.tallinn.ee
Tartu Science Park (TSP) was founded in 1992 and
was the first organisation in Estonia set up with
clearly stated intention to support innovation. TSP
supports business innovation activities in the region by
networking with universities, public and private sector.
The TSP technology incubator offers a variety of
services to start-up companies and the ICT Centre
organises seminars, courses and contests for students
and mediates several national and international ICT
activities.
Contact person: Margit Hämarik
Homepage:
www.teaduspark.ee
Organisations and specialists in the fields of
Logistics and Customs have joined in Logistics and
Customs Brokers Association (LCBA) with the main goal to
promote international trade, ensure safe and reliable
cargo flow trough Latvia and develop logistics and
customs brokers activities in Latvia. LCBA is in active
co-operation with European Logistics Association and
will help in the European wide dissemination. It also
participates in the data gathering.
Contact person: Aivars Tauriņ
Homepage:
www.lmba.lv
Riga is the capital of Latvia and with its ca.
750 000 inhabitants the biggest city in the Baltic
States. Riga City Council aims at improving the
competitiveness of the Latvian capital region. The
development strategy of Riga is directly benefiting from
the results of LogOn Baltic. The representatives of Riga
will participate in the meetings directed to the
regional development bodies. They will act as the WP4
leader to ensure effective dissemination also to
policy-makers within the BSR.
Contact person: Ilona Smite
Homepage:
www.riga.lv
The Telematics and Logistics Institute of
Transport
and Telecommunications Institute (TTI) has a long
experience in transport and logistics research and
teaching. Their aim is to make productive contributions
to the continued progress of the transportation industry
of Latvia. TTI has participated in numerous EU projects
and is at the moment partner in InLoC and in the Baltic
Tangent, both INTERREG projects. TTI brings to the
project its know-how on the logistics and ICT field and
perform surveys in Latvia.
Contact person: Igor Kabashkin
Homepage:
www.tsi.lv
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University is a
modern higher school with significant educational and
research achievements. The University includes 8
faculties, Aviation Institute named after A.Gustaitis,
International Studies Centre, Centre for Continuous
Education, 10 research institutes and 19 laboratories.
On Sept 1, 2005 over 14 849 students came to the
University's classrooms, with 3 491 of them being
first-year students. Teaching staff numbers 919,
including 50 Research fellows. There are also 117
Doctors Habil and Professors, 508 Doctors or Associate
Professors, 75 Lectors and 248 Assistants.
The University provides 88 programmes for diploma
engineers, undregraduate and graduate (Bachelor and
Master) studies in the fields of Humanity Sciences,
Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Technological
Sciences, Biomedical Sciences and Art Sciences. Every
year VGTU is provided with more various facilities. Thus,
according to Resolution No 860 of Lithuanian Government,
the University has got the building of 9073 m ˛ in 1/26
Traku str.
Contact person: Ramūnas Palaitis
Homepage:
www.vgtu.lt/english/
Pruszcz Gdański is situated in the southern part
of Tricity agglomeration, just 10 km from Gdańsk. The
city is an essential traffic junction and has over 20
000 inhabitants. It is an attractive city to the
investors because of the low taxes and big operating
surplus. The city is a member in the Council of Tricity
Agglomeration, which concentrates on the development of
the area’s communication, economic development etc.
LogOn Baltic will help them to develop the city and the
whole area. City’s representatives will participate in
the project workshops directed to the regional
development bodies.
Contact person: Patrycja Grochowska
Homepage:
www.pruszcz-gdanski.pl
Polish Logistics Association has as members a
large group of Polish companies. As a partner in LogOn
Baltic it will help in the data gathering providing
information of its member companies and disseminating
the results of the project through its Poland wide
network. The association and its members will benefit
from the project on long term because they have an
opportunity to impact indirectly on the future regional
development programmes.
Contact person: Danuta Kisperska-Moron
Homepage: www.ptl.net.pl
The division Logistics Management at
Linköping
University with 20 staff, is one of the leading
academic institutions within Logistics Management in the
BSR with good reputation nationally as well as
internationally and with experience from numerous
industry-sponsored and publicly funded projects, such as
the EU Research FP project PROTRANS. They will work as
WP2 leader in LogOn Baltic and contribute to the project
especially with their expertise in logistics.
Contact person: Håkan Aronsson
Homepage:
www.liu.se
Östsam Regional Development Council works towards
the achievement of an enduring economic, social and
cultural development of Östergötland. It has 13
municipalities and the County Council as members. They
concentrate their activities among the others on
communication and IT and development of trade and
industry. They will participate in work shops, put the
intentions into a regional framework and help out in
collecting the data for the research.
Contact person: Per Sandström
Homepage:
www.ostsam.se
Transport Centrum AB is a non-profit development
company for free enterprise and competence within the
logistic and transport area having one of the best
logistics locations in Sweden. The majority ownership is
public. Together with a number of participants from the
private sector, municipality and the university they
help to create growth within the private sector through
development of the region’s good logistics climate. They
focus on issues relating to infrastructure, cluster
cooperation and competence development.
Contact person: Staffan Eklind
Homepage:
www.transportcentrum.com
Centre “Protey” is a publicly-owned educational
body at a state-owned Admiralty shipyard dealing mainly
with the questions of material purchasing, inward
transportation, reception, warehousing, stock control,
material handling and physical distribution in supply
management, i.e. all main topics of modern logistics.
“Protey” (i.e. Proteus) cooperates with the State
Maritime Academy and the Petersburg State Railway
University, two main transport educational organisations
in Russia, and State Marine Technical University.
Contact person: Natalia Ivanova
Homepage:
http://proteus-spb.ru
ILOT is a non-commercial company and is the first
example of public private partnership in transport and
logistics of the region. ILOT’s main activities are
monitoring and forecasting of regional and transit cargo
flows, ensuring access to logistics information
resources for the SMEs, developing and implementing IT
of best international standards in logistics and
networking with Russian and foreign logistics centres.
ILOT has taken part in several international projects;
ILOT is a Partner in Interreg project Baltic Palette II.
Contact person: Mikhail Pimonenko
Homepage:
www.ilot.wnet.ru
St. Petersburg’s Government Committee of Transport
Transit Policy is responsible for an efficient
development of international and interregion
transportation, facilities and services for transit, and
logistics. Committee’s main activities are among others
taking part in Federal programmes and creation and
fulfillment of regional programmes for increasing
competence and development level of transport and
logistics in St. Petersburg, promotion of IT application
in logistics, and international co-operation in the BSR
concerning transport and logistics.
Contact person: Olga Potiforova
Homepage:
http://eng.gov.spb.ru/ or
(по-русски)
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