Expertise Sharing and Networking

1. Name and title of the person who formulated the commitment

Ambassador Françoise Bourolleau

2. Name of the committing organization

French Embassy Finland

Please indicate also the type of the organisation

other

Type of the committing organisation, if other

Diplomatic Mission

3. Home country of the committing organisation

other

Home country of the committing organisation, if other

France

Organization homepage (like www.bsas.fi)

www.ambafrance-fi.org

4. Contact person – content of the commitment – name

Frédéric Joureau, First Counsellor

Contact person – content of the commitment – email address (in standard format like name@organization.com)

frederic.joureauREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT[at]diplomatie.gouv.fr

Contact person – content of the commitment – phone number

+358-9-618 780

5. Contact person – for communication – name

Emmanuel Salmon, Science and University Officer

Contact person – for communication – email address (in standard format like name@organization.com)

emmanuel.salmonREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT[at]france.fi

Contact person – for communication – phone number

+358-9-2510-2123

6. Contact person – for communication – postal address

French Embassy Finland
Itäinen Puistotie 13
00140 Helsinki

9. Commitment title and designation/acronym etc (that you wish to use)

Expertise Sharing and Networking

10. Nature of commitment

other

Nature of commitment, if other

Finding high-level experts and professionals

11. Description of commitment and the implementation strategy

The French Embassy Finland will assist the BSAS initiative in ensuring the participation of relevant French experts, whether high-level government or private sector representatives, in all actions which the BSAG considers useful. In particular, the Embassy will provide participants for the BSAS plenaries. It will further accompany the future BSAG actions in the same way, using the Embassy’s network and, when possible, contributing to the experts’ participation, in order to reinforce the public concern for Baltic Sea issues.

12. Focus area (see HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan)

Awareness Raising

13. Objective of commitment and its impact on the Baltic Sea (temporary, permanent, etc.)

The objective is to reaffirm France’s concern for the Baltic Sea issues and implement operative actions using France’s know-how, e.g. on sea issues and clean-up techniques.

14. What is needed for the commitment to be successful? (one-time action, continuous support or/and financing, support for a certain time period)

The French Embassy Finland is willing to work with BSAG on a regular and cooperative basis, so that efficient and continuous dialog is an essential condition.

15. Geographic scope of the commitment (Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Proper, the Belt Sea and the Kattegat, the whole Baltic Sea, etc.)

The Baltic Sea

16. Partnership opportunities and contact information for this purpose

Emmanuel Salmon
Science and University Officer
French Embassy Finland
emmanuel.salmonREMOVETHISCAPITALTEXT[at]france.fi
+358-9-2510-2123

17. Is your commitment/contribution a highly significant, significant, medium or minor effort to your organisation?

Significant effort

18. Starting date

2010 January 27^th

20. Expected commitment duration

12 months

19. First / next milestone - title

BSAS Participant confirmation

First / next milestone - date

2010 February 1^st

First / next milestone - description

To confirm the participation of the appropriate expert(s) in the BSAS-Summit.

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