Old events

The ICN organized its 15th annual conference in Wroclaw 28-29 April. The topic was focused on green and sutainable community development, including carbon neutral towns and cities. 

About 40 participants from seven different countries gathered at the end of November for an intense two-day meeting in beautiful and modern Tallinn. The conference was organized in cooperation with the TENTacle project and focussed on the headline “G...

Besides different presentations, visits, discussions and official meetings ICN members also used the 10th annual conference in Suwalki Poland for the annual meeting and to recall the past year. 

It’s been ten years now since the Innovation Circle Network was established. How vibrant and strong it is after one decade of cooperation, projects and friendship was proven during the ten years celebration event from 8th to 10th of November in Suwal...

Partners of the TENTacle project made a visit to Berlin in June for their latest partnership meeting. Berlin was the place to be since the 8th Annual Forum of the EUSBSR and the 19th Baltic Development Forum Summit took place at the same time. 

These last ten years have been a fantastic journey and we can't believe it ourselves, but it is true: The Innovation Circle Network celebrates its 10th birthday in 2017. Therefore we are planning our 10th annual conference and we look forward to a ge...

30 experts gathered in Oslo in order to discuss how Central Scandinavia can reach better connectivity and how the borderland can reap benefits from investments into new or upgraded transport infrastructure. 

The hot topic of this year's event was transport - corridors, railways, roads and their importance for rural Europe.

ICN board and Young Eyes project leaders met in Riga, where the Young Eyes leaders made up an interims balance and planned further projects actions.

More than 40 members and friends of the Innovation Circle Network spent two days in Germany's capital to share experiences and make plans for the future of their home regions in northern rural Europe. Two days full of ideas, discussions, brain stormi...

At the end of February Suwalki started the Young Eyes Project with a Kick-off meeting at the city's Teachers’ Trainig Centre. Four high schools of the Polish ICN partner city were invited to participate in this new project and 16 students were select...

The City of Suwalki hosted the 6th Annual Conference of the Innovation Circle Network that succesfully ended on 12th December. More than 70 people gathered in the coldest place in Poland to warm up and team up. 

How does the future for European cities look like? And what can young people do, to turn it into a brighter one? That was the big question that 20 young Europeans discussed during a five-day youth camp at Benmore Outdoor Center in Scotland. 

On Saturday an intense annual conference of the Innovation Circle Network ended in Siauliai, Lithuania. The first snow, new faces and new ideas made this event a very fruitful and worthwhile meeting that clarified the importance of ICN. Amongst other...

Europe in Transformation is the title of the IV annual IC conference(8-9 of Dec). Jurmala city and Latvian Association for Regional and Local Government (LALRG) are co-partners in hosting the annual event together with Trans in Form project and Innov...

Berlin was the place to be for the latest Innovation Circle Board Meeting. This week ten IC members went for a flying visit to Germany’s capital. The program included a visit to the Bundestag as well as a comprehensive agenda for the Board Meeting. N...

About 50 young people from eight different countries made this year’s ICN Summer Youth Camp another successful and beneficial event. Together they showed the potential of youths. “We had a tremendous camp, with a lot of important discussions”, resume...

Members of Innovation Circle Network in cooperation with Lithuanian initiative “Future city” gathered for the Annual conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. Conference brought together over 70 people from 7 different countries – Belarus, Finland, Latvia, L...

The 19-20 July the IC board had the second meeting this year. All the results of the past period since the meeting in Trakai in February this year were discussed which brought the Network into new level with more project ideas. Entire Network board e...

The kick off conference gathered Trans-in-Form partners from 6 countries and co-partners from Belarus and Russia. Experts highlighted how regional development is driven by population changes, growth or decline, and how attractivity plays a key role. ...

Innovation Circle Network Annual conference will be organised 30th November - 1st December this year in cooperation with the Trans-in-Form project. The event is titled “Innovation through new governance and rural-urban partnerships". The topic is par...

The Innovation Circle Network organized its first annual meeting and the Living Cities conference in Tallinn 4-5 December. The proposal to change the bylaws was approved so that not only Northern Europe but organizations or individuals from any Europ...

A seminar organized by the Department of Youth Affairs at the Ministry of Social Security of Labor in Lithuania took part in Alytus this week. Nordland County of Norway was taking part as the main partner. The seminar gathered very various people com...

Seven IC partners were gathered in Alytus the 17th September, for a mini seminar. The main topic was new initiatives within the field of youth politics and transnational activities where young people can meet and exchange experiences. Several ideas w...

25 - 26 June 2008 Innovation Circle board meeting is having meetings in Askim, Sarpsborg and Spydeberg.This is the first time when the board meets after the Innovation Circle Network official registration. This time the board has set the guidelines o...

Innovation Circle project (INTERREG) has passed and it was officially closed last year. However, the Russian part of the project called TACIS is having its last event today (21st May 2008). It could also be called the very last event within the whole...

March 4 Innovation Circle participants were invited to the Murmansk City administration, for a meeting with the city vice-mayor Mr. Aleksandr Shatashvili. The Network General Secretary Alf S. Johansen, a coordinator for a lead partner in Transinform ...

The board of the Innovation Circle Network will meet in Cesis the 24th January. The meeting will be in cooperation with the Transinform project workshop.

The Innovation Circle Network is arranging a meeting for planning of future project activities. The event will take place 24 – 26 January 2008 in Cesis, Latvia. Cesis District Council is a member of the IC Network and Mrs Rita Merca is the chairman o...