1. Start of the Slovenian
Semester at the JRC in
Ispra
prof.dr. Žiga Turk
Government Office for Growth
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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2. It's good to be in Ispra …
demonstration how Europe can work
together
how we can achieve synergies among
knowledge, institutions, people
quot;synergy for Europequot; is a slogan of the
Slovenian presidency
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3. Synergos (gr.)
joint, collaborative work
in Slovenian: sinergija, SI.nergija, www.gov.SI
Europe is about synergy
27*1 > 27 … = 50+
synergy
– among member states, institutions, policies, generations,
citizens
– synergy with other global powers to solve global problems
… climate change, poverty, peace
synergies in the updated Lisbon strategy
synergies in the Slovenian presidency
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4. 2008: Starting a new chapter
in European history
end of period of EU looking inward
– treaty signed, form defined,
– expansion from EU15 to EU27
– success of Euro
time to look at the content, not form
time to look outward
time to shape, not respond to globalization
time to get in shape
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5. Slovenia taking the presidency
young country from behind the iron curtain
first new member state and first Slavic state
having the presidency
in 17 years from a republic in socialist Yugoslavia
to member of EU, NATO, Eurozone, Schengen
and presidency of OSCE and EUC
in 2007:
– highest GDP growth in Eurozone (6.5% in 2007),
– historic lowest unemployment,
– budget surplus
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6. SLOVENIA - some facts
• Population of 2 million
• GDP per capita on a par with Greece,
and much higher than new EU
members
• Track record of strong
macroeconomic performance
• Average annual growth of 4%
in past 10 years; 5.2% in 2006, 6.5
in 2007
• Stable multi-party democracy
• Joined the Euro area in January 2007
• EU presidency in the first half of
2008
• Invited to Join the OECD
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7. Context - Lisbon Strategy
Lisbon 1.0 (2000)
– most competitive economy in the world
– Japan and USA
Lisbon 2.0 (2005)
– growth and jobs
– looking inward
if it's not broken don't fix it …
Lisbon 2.1 (2008)
– framework for the modernization
of Europe it is needed in 2008
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8. We need to roll up some
sleeves … LS 2.1
a strong message for the strategy, for reforms, for
modernization
to make Europe more
– creative,
– entrepreneurial dynamic market economy
while caring
– for people and
– for the environment
Europe cares!
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9. Structure of Lisbon Strategy 2.1
citizen dimension (!)
member state dimension
open method of coordination
European Union dimension
(4) caring for the environemnt
(1) innovation and creativity
global dimension (new)
(2) business environment
si.nergy
(3) caring for people
(1) innovation and creativity
(2) business environment
(3) caring for people
(4) caring for the environment
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10. Focus in LS 2.1
knowledge, innovation and creativity
– knowledge as 5th freedom, open Europen knowledge space
– support for the EIT, JTIs, ERA
– SME access,
growth, competitiveness
– keyword: entrepreneurship
– SME policies (access to knowledge, moneey …)
– internal market review
jobs, human resources
– flexibility, best person for the job,
– talents, education
energy and climate change
– income or cost?,
– time to for governments to lead by example
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11. Knowledge, innovation,
creativity
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12. West's Monopoly on Science and
Technology Ending!
United States graduated roughly
70,000 undergraduate engineers
China graduated 600,000
and India 350,000.
½ of software developed in India
½ of Fortune 500 outsource
software work to India
new R&D centers of Microsoft,
Cisco, Google, IBM … are in Asia,
not Europe
fear that by 2020 80% of scientific
papers in sci&tech will be written by
Asians
out of top 10 universities 2 in
Europe
Asia (Singapore) is setting education
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13. (1) Knowledge as 5th freedom
deepening of the European Research Area (ERA),
successful introduction of the European Institute of
Technology (EIT) and its KICs
support of joint technology initiatives (JTI)
free movement of knowledge / a single European knowledge
space/market
– Europe as a magnet for talents from all over the world but in
particular from neighboring regions (blue card/visa policy),
– single working efficient patent space and IPR space
– open access to knowledge
– open innovation, innovation 2.0
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14. (1) Creativity
In particular, the mature markets products and services do not
compete only on technical excellence, but also on non-functional
attributes such as design, brand as well as on perceived social,
cultural, environmental or other ethical values. It is essential that
European industries also seek its competitive advantage on such
features, building on the rich European cultural background.
The European greatest potential certainly lies in a balanced mix of
technical excellence and extraordinary creativity of its citizens.
Europe needs to invest more in a creative potential of its citizens and
their education so as to become more conscientious consumers. In
the core of the economy there are creative industries, which have
the potential to add value to all other industries and must be better
utilized through networks and clusters.
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15. (1) Broadband
as part of their NRPs, set national targets for high-
speed internet usage aiming at a 30% penetration
rate of the EU population
100% schools by 2010
telecoms review - competitive infrastructures
broadband = 20mbits/s or more
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16. Synergies with creativity
innovation and creativity
– not only engineers but designers, artists
competitiveness
– how to make talents entrepreneurial
people
– how to educate, attract and retain talent,
– how to make talent entrepreneurial,
– how to flexibly employ talents
environment
– make it into a value, make it into a business opportunity
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17. Energy and climate
change
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18. Target Setting is Cheap!
quot;20-20-20 by 2020quot; EU Council
3/2007
quot;30% if the world followsquot;
40%! … EU parliament
80% … from 10 tons to 2 tons CO2
per European
anyone remembers Kyoto?
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19. Put the money where the mouth was:
How much money exactly?
40 billion tons CO2 annually
possible to reduce by 27 billion tons
at cca. 35EUR/ton
total: 1 trillion EUR
somebody's cost
someone else's income
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20. Where do you want to be in this 1
trillion EUR business ?
to pay your share of the trillion?
to collect your share of the trillion?
this is the synergy between quot;growth and
jobs strategyquot; and quot;sustainable
development strategyquot;
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21. Synergies with Energy&Climate
Change
technology, innovation for renewable energy and
energy efficiency
climate change can create good business
people need good environment, ageing issue,
education, raising about environment
energy and climate change core issues
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22. Back to JRC …
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23. Joint Research Centers will
continue to play a strong role
vital role in policy making
– homework: how much energy can the governments save in 3
years (buildings, car fleets)
– energy policy, climate change, crop yields, food prices, inflation,
economic growth, prosperity of the Europeans …
– renewable energy, nuclear technology, safety …
experiences for the EIT
– another pan-European quot;knowledge organizationquot;
framework programs
– EU could use in-house strategy development teams and proposal
evaluation teams
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24. In conclusion …
many synergies possible
Europe
we may not even know about
the greatest potentials
because we don't know about
each other
this is what semesters and
council presidencies are also
about
learning about each other
let's make good use of them
let's do
– something useful, efficient,
dynamic
– something good
– and have some fun
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