Key politicians from Norway and Sweden discussed the need for better infrastructure in Scandinavia at a COINCO North infrastructure conference in Oslo in mid June. (Photo: Jan Ivar Bøe).
As the project manager and Norwegian project owner for the Interreg IVA project COINCO North, Oslo Teknopol hosted, together with Akershus county council, a 2-day conference on Nordic infrastructure in a European perspective in Oslo in mid June.
About 100 people from Scandinavia and Germany took part in the conference, highlighting the importance of an improved and modern infrastructure for railway in The Nordic Triangle, in order to create an attractive, competitive and sustainable region in a European and global context.
The main focus for COINCO (Corridor of Innovation and Cooperation) North has been infrastructure as the main bearer of the region’s development. The vision is to get high-speed trains that will travel from Oslo to Copenhagen, via Göteborg, in just 2 hours and 20 minutes by 2025.
COINCO North is a strategic development project, with the first period of the project running since early 2009 and ending this summer. The development of a new project to continue the work is well underway. A draft application for a COINCO North II – The Scandinavian 8 Million city project is distributed to the partners, and is likely to be sent to the Interreg IVA administration for approval in autumn 2011.