Partnership proposals

Municipality of Kaunas District is a local authority institution situated in geographical center of Lithuania. It comprises an area of 149,500 hectares around Municipality of Kaunas City. The population of Kaunas District is almost 90 000. Here is situated second largest airport in the country, university of agriculture, free economic zone, we are proud for annually growing population.
Our idea is to gather cross-sectoral group (representatives from Municipality Administration, business and education) and have a study visits to Nordic partners aiming to exchange experience in different sectors (investments, tourism, transport, environment, social issues and education). We hope this could lead to meaningful exchange of knowledge, future cooperation and friendship between municipalities.
If you got interested, please feel free to contact Asta Tamonienė, our chief specialist in Department of Economic, at +370 37 305543, or asta.tamoniene@krs.lt.

Contact: Dovile Bartasiunaite, Civil servant (tel. + 370 67519363, e-mail: dovile.bartasiunaite@krs.lt)

Jaunjelgava municipality is looking for Nordic partners for group visits. We are interested in cooperation in areas in experience exchange and on good practices in fields such as:
 labour and working environment,
 urban planning,
 tourism,
 cultural heritage,
 education system,
 sustainable development of the city.
The working group with representatives from all departments would like to learn more how other cities works.
Jaunjelgava is a typical countryside municipality, located about 80 km from capital of Latvia Riga, with 6000 inhabitants and density of population was 9.6 people per square km. The total area is 685 km2 divided into forests (61%), water (4%) and farming (25%) areas. Territory of municipality is bordering with biggest river of Latvia - Daugava. There are 6 parishes and 1 town in the municipality.
Please visit www.jaunjelgava.lv
If you are interested to develop cooperation and exchange information in this field we are looking for cooperation partners. Please contact Baiba Kellere (project coordinator) on email baiba.kellere@jaunjelgava.lv or phone +371 26227581 or Evija Vectirāne (Public Realtion specialist) on phone +371 27724237

Contact: Baiba Kellere, Project coordinator (tel. + 371 26227581, e-mail: Baiba.Kellere@jaunjelgava.lv)

Riebini county Council is looking for Nordic partners for group visits. We are interested in cooperation and experience exchange in the field of social services, project management and district development (including tourism).
Please visit www.riebini.lv and www.visitriebini.lv (tourism webpage will be opened from March of 2015) for more information.
If you are interested in cooperation with us, please contact me:
Iveta Šņepste, Project manager - tourism organizator, iveta.snepste@riebini.lv; +371 22339980.

Riebiņi Municipality
Total area 630 km2
Riebiņi municipality is rich with water resources – here are more than 30 lakes (7% from total area), 47.6% is utilized agricultural area, 32.7%forests.
Number of inhabitants (on 1st of January 2015):5761
Age 0-15 12%
Age 16-60 65%
Age 60istricts are sport halls, in Galeni centre is one big and qualitative sport hall.
Social infrastructure includes - social service, social care center, 2 social housings, social apartments, Custody Court, home care for people who don’ t want to receive social care in this mentioned institutions. Unfortunately, during the last years social sphere takes one of the main roles in municipalities’ budget and resources.
Economic activity:
Farms, individual businessmen’s, limited companies
In Riebini County agriculture is the main branch of occupation, here are about 3,000 farms. Agricultural land is used for cattle-breeding, cereal crops, garden crops and vegetables, mainly.
Cattle breeders’ rears cows, sheep and cows; in grain farms – barleys, oats, wheat, ryes and oilseed rape.
In the County is about 24 farms, which are engaged in forestry and wood processing.
There are popular tourism - eco-tourism and rural tourism. Potential of tourism are very large, here are a lot of opportunities to develop it.
The municipality consists of 6 districts; Riebini County council consists of 15 Deputies, which works in 4 committees: financial committee; education, culture and sport committee;social issues committee;economic and property issues committee.

Contact: Iveta Šņepste, Project manager - tourism organizator (tel. + 371 22339980, e-mail: iveta.snepste@riebini.lv)

Panevezys District municipality is looking for Nordic partners for group visits. We are interested in cooperation and experience exchange in the field of project management, tourism, sustainable development of the district, implementation of equal opportunity measures in the working environment.
Panevėžys district locates near a highway Via Baltica in strategically convenient location. There is a distance of around 150 km to the main central cities of the Baltic region Vilnius, Kaunas and Riga and 250 km to Klaipėda. The population of Panevėžys district is approximately 42,000. The district takes high positions in the field of agriculture.
Please find more information in http://www.panrs.lt/go.php/Apie-rajona496 
If you are interested in cooperation with us, please contact me: 
Head of Investments and Foreign Relations Unit Panevėžys district municipality administration Raminta Butėnaitė, phone: +370 45 581 707, mob +370 616 39165 e-mail: raminta.butenaite@panrs.lt

Contact: Raminta Butenaite, Head of Investment and Foreign Relations Unit (tel. + 370 45, e-mail: raminta.butenaite@panrs.lt)

Kelme Municipality in Lithuania is looking for partners from Nordic countries to prepare a project in th fields of tourism, cultural heritage, public administration and strategic planning.
If you are interested to develop cooperation and exchange information in this field we are looking for cooperation partners. Please contact Mr. Vilmantas Kizis on email turizmas@kelme.lt or phone +370 686 02793.

Contact: Vilmantas Kizis, Tourism manager (tel. + 370 68602793, e-mail: turizmas@kelme.lt)

Skrunda Local Municipality is looking for the Nordic partners to cooperate in the sphere of the NEET problems (young people not in Education, Employment or Training), issue that becomes more and more common and alarming all around the world, reaching record highs in the past few years. Latvia is not an exclusion, therefore, to gather best practices on solving the problem, the group of potential NEET mentors from Skrunda would appreciate to meet their foreign colleagues ready to discuss the NEET challenges and possible solutions to reduce the number of young people classified as NEET.
If You are interested in cooperation, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Zane Eglīte, Manager of Development Department of Skrunda Local Municipality, by e-mail: zane.eglite@skrunda.lv or by cell phone: +371 26665874

Contact: Zane Eglite, Manager of Development Department (tel. + 371 26665874, e-mail: zane.eglite@skrunda.lv)

Telšiai district municipality is one of the smallest municipalities in Lithuania, located in the north-west of country. Telšiai district is taking area of 1439 sq. km; population is about 46 thousand. Telšiai is the capital of Samogitia (Žemaitija), the centre of Telšiai County and District. This is the town located on seven hills, from East and West surrounded by the legendary lake Mastis, famous for the number of the places to visit and unique sites.
Telšiai district municipality is looking for the partners in Nordic countries. We would like to start cooperation in different sectors: cultural, economical, social security and health care, sport, environmental protection, tourism and etc. We could exchange of experience in many areas, participate in European Union and other financial resources financed programmes and implement projects together.
We are looking for partners that we could participate in the Mobility Programme in these spheres:
* Administration service for people, population; e-government; e-services;
* EU financed projects implementation;
* Development of Renewable energy sources;
* Business development: suppot of SME; partnership of public and privat sectors.

Contact: Laima Simanauskiene, Head of Strategic Planning and Investment division (tel. + 370 61288744, e-mail: laima.simanauskiene@telsiai.lt)

Olaine district municipality council is looking for Nordic partners for group visits focusing on working environment/sustainability. The working group with representatives from all departments would like to learn more how other cities works. Areas of interest can be experience exchange on good practises in fields such as labour and working environment, sustainable development of the city.
Olaine district was founded in 2009, combining two previous municipalities – Olaine town and civil parish Olaine. The territory of Olaine district municipality is 289,52 km2, number of inhabitants 20 600. Olaine town is located 22 km far from Latvia capital city Riga and 35 km far from Jurmala – the largest resort city in the Baltic States.
If you are interested to develop cooperation and exchange information in this field we are looking for cooperation partners. Please contact Ms Ilze Mazure, Project manager on email ilze.mazure@olaine.lv or phone +371 22019984.
Contact: Ilze Mazure, Project manager ( e-mail ilze.mazure@olaine.lv or phone +371 22019984 )

Contact: Ilze Mazure, Project manager (tel. + 371 22019984, e-mail: ilze.mazure@olaine.lv)

Kaunas county police Headquarters looking for partners from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark or Island who would like to participate in Nordic-Baltic mobility programme for public administration project proposal. For more information please contact bronius.palsis@policija.lt

Contact: Bronius Palsis, Specialist (tel. + 370 60295765, e-mail: bronius.palsis@policija.lt)

JSC “Lietuvis” has 9 years of experience in organizing all kinds of meetings and events. Recently we have noticed that our clients are concerned about the ethical, social and environmental performance of their suppliers so our aim is to make it easier for our clients to organize sustainable meetings.
We are trying to understand problems related with sustainable management of events and meetings, analyze the factors that limit and promote sustainable event organizing. Also critically examine the processes of event management and identify opportunities to improve their sustainability.
In order to improve our services into sustainable ones, we are looking for the partners from Nordic countries that could take on the trainees from our company and share their best practices and experiences of the sustainable management of events and meetings.
Please contact:
Project coordinator
Eglė Kriaučiūnaitė
egle@lietuvis.lt
+370 657 64444

Contact: Eglė Kriaučiūnaitė, Project coordinator (tel. + 370 65764444, e-mail: egle@lietuvis.lt)

Since last year Human Resource department of Rural Support Service has two new inventions:
Last year Human Resource department of Rural Support Service has founded Learning center for our employees, this is absolutely new option in our employee’s career development. We are making our ‘first steps’, searching for new innovative methods to improve learning process for our employees and options for preparing/coaching internal lecturers. We would be glad to hear if you have any experience to share with.

A lot of work, resources and knowledge were invested to improve employee selection processes in Rural Support Service. Since last year we are using different selection and evaluation methods. This is great experience we are ready to share with and we are looking for more new views and approaches from our colleagues abroad regarding other human resource management and selection processes.
Participation in Nordic-Baltic Mobility and Network Program for Public Administration gives us chance to share with different experiences and see how to improve our cooperation across the borders.

The deadline for the project application is 30th of March. We are kindly asking our foreign colleagues to give urgent answer about taking part in Nordic-Baltic mobility program for public administration and being our partner.
You are very welcome to call us or write e-mail if you have any questions regarding this possible cooperation.

Rural Support Service
Elina Plaude
HR specialist
2 Republikas laukums, Riga, LV-1981, Latvia
mobile phone +37127877187
Elina.Plaude@lad.gov.lv
www.lad.gov.lv

Contact: Elīna Plaude, Human resource specialist (tel. + 371 29626215, e-mail: )

Estonian Ministry of the Interior is looking for partners to a study visit about implementation of process management (i.e LEAN, Six Sigma, TQM) and activity based costing in Denmark or Sweden or Norway or Finland.

To give a little insight, then following things have been done in our ministries subordinates. Since 2010, Estonian Ministry of the Interior (MoI) has been adapting the practices of process management and activity based costing among its subordinates. So far, Estonian Rescue Board has described their processes and activities and adapted activity based costing practices. Same has been done in our Police and Borderguard, but without emphasising the costs yet.
The main drivers for Estonian project so far have been
1. What are the processes in departments? (How work is done?)
2. What do the activities cost?
3. Why do the processes cost that much? If we know the costs, then we can relate them to different type of goals

We would gladly familiarize us with the experience of police and/or rescue boards process management and activity based costing practises.

Contact: Marko Seier, adviser to MoI financial department (tel. +372 6 125 224, e-mail: marko.seier@siseministeerium.ee)

Contact: Marko Seier, Adviser to Financial Department (tel. + 372 6125224, e-mail: marko.seier@siseministeerium.ee)

Jelgava City council is looking for Nordic partners to improve capacity of administration workers working in social sector. Main fields of interest: Social services and promotion of healthy life style, cooperation between institutions on solving social and health issues (police, health care institutions, social care and educational estblishments, NGO etc.) , service for population - organisation of work of one stop agencies.
If you are interested to develop cooperation and exchange information in this field we are looking for cooperation partners. Please contact Ms Marite Ievina, Deputy head of project management unit on email marite.ievina@dome.jelgava.lv or phone +371 3005486.

Contact: Marite Ievina, deputy head of project management unit (tel. + 371 63005486, e-mail: marite.ievina@dome.jelgava.lv)

Kadrina Rural Municipality.
We are local municipality in Lääne-Viru County, Estonia.
We want to find a partner municipalities in Nordic countries, for example in Denmark and in Finland. As we are municipality with over 5000 inhabitans and 355 km² of area, therefore we would like to find a parter which would be comparable with us as much as possible. Our aim is to get knowledge in different fields of managing local municipality in the best way.
Nowadays in Estonia are very important topics national administrative reform and school network reform. Also we discuss about health and social care. Environmental issues have also very important role in our topics.
Kadrina Secondary School has practiced for several years in inseneering education with AutoCAD programm as a choice substances at high school level.

Contact: Kaire Kullik, Development Advisor (tel. + 372 3225617, e-mail: kaire.kullik@kadrina.ee)