European Union, Baltic Sea Region Programme has granted 3.6 MEUR funding for Rail Baltica Growth Corridor (RBGC) project for years 2011–2013. The Project will be launched in January 2011, and is going to end at June 2013.
RBGC is linked to the wider concept of Rail Baltica – a railway that will connect the Eastern Baltic Sea Region from north to south branching from St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, Kaunas and Warsaw to Berlin. The Region gains new economic potential as the major business hubs will be connected with North-West Russia and the EU core.
City of Helsinki is the Lead Partner of the Rail Baltica Growth Corridor Project. Aalto University School of Economics CEMAT is the Coordinator. Project consists of total 21 Partners, and Lappeenranta University of Technology, Kouvola unit being one of them. LUT Kouvola has responsibility over managing work package related to “Accessibility of the City Regions”, aiming to tie together public and private sector interests for the further support of RBGC in marketing, local investments and stimulating economic growth.
Further information:
Olli-Pekka Hilmola, Prof., LUT Kouvola, mobile: +358 40 7614307, olli-pekka.hilmola(at)lut.fi
Marja Mattila, Project Co-ordinator, Aalto University, School of Econ./Cemat, mobile, +358 40 353 8158, Marja.Mattila(at)hse.fi