CONTENTS
CONTENTS


  Both digital and human networks
  are important in Baltic cooperation.



Gdañsk welcomes the 4th UBC
General conference.







  Women´s networks blossom
  around the Baltic.





  Kalmar Union - 600 years!
I. INFORMATION SOCIETY & THE BALTIC REGION

2 Digital democracy spreads over the region
4 Baltic Sea Alliance boosts communication flow
4 Bangemann Challenge Awards
5 Paraddis for IS strategies
6 Introducing Telecities network
7 Special theme: UBC & IT (pages 7-11)

II. UBC TODAY

12 Gdansk welcomes the UBC General Conference
12 Board discussed EU programmes
14 New initiative for city business development
14 Pre-announcing UBC Art and Culture Festival
14 New working groups under Transportation Commission
15 Environmental auditing manual on its way
16 Project manager reports
16 Library network improves services for youth
17 Mare Articum kick-off meeting
17 Employment projects presented in Rostock

III NEWS AND VIEWS

18 Dynamic Directoria V
19 Interreg II C
20 EU programmes for Baltic cooperation
21 INVITATION: Baltic Women's Conference
21 INVITATION: Ballerina Conference
22 Environmental car races around the Baltic
22 New network for industrial design
23 WHO healthy cities start a centre
23 Introducing Baltic Sea States Subregional Cooperation
24 Introducing Baltic Sea Commission of CPMR
24 Bremen Declaration
25 Successful conference for Baltic women
25 Euroregion Jantar established

IV. MEMBER CITIES IN ACTION

27 Concerns about waste management
27 Building the Baltic Bridge
28 Positive views about ECAT
28 INVITATION: Festival of Fleets
29 INVITATION: Kalmar Union 600 years celebrations
31 Two new centres in Klaipëda
31 INVITATION: Kotka Maritime Festival
32 INVITATION: Pärnu summertime festivities
32 Introducing Pori - city of global rhythms
33 New project on Baltic tourism
34 Riga prepares for 800th Anniversary
34 Stockholm office in St.Petersburg
35 Economic cooperation in Szczecin

36 Baltic Sea Events Calendar

Cities - Members of the UBC Executive Board