Sister City Conference in Bodø
Bodø Municipality - European Capital of Culture 2024 - welcomes our Nordic sister cities Jönköping, Kuopio and Svendborg to Bodø for the biannual Sister City Conference 12 - 15 August 2024.
Topics of the conference
The main topic of this year's conference will be civil protection and comprehensive security.
The conference will include visits and best practices, and the following subtopics:
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New (Nordic) reality - NATO
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Comprehensive security
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JRCC - Joint Rescue Coordination Center
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New City - New Airport - status of the project
- Bodø2024 European Capital of Culture and yoUNG2024 (youth project)
programme details
| Time | Programme | Venue | ||
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| Arrival | ||||
| 19:00 | Dinner | Txaba Restaurant, Sjøgata 33b (city centre) |
| Time | Programme | Venue | ||
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| 08:15–10:00 | Introduction to Bodø by Mayor Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen | Dronningens gate 15, Bodø2024 premises, 1st floor | ||
| Bodø2024 European Capital of Culture by Henrik Sand Dagfinrud, Programme Director Bodø2024 | ||||
| YoUNG2024 by Christian Iversen | ||||
| 10:15–11:00 | Guided tour Stormen Library by Sissel Hughes, Head of library collection and services | Stormen Library, Storgata 1a | ||
| 11:15-12:15 | Comprehensive security and preparedness: Best practices in Bodø, Kuopio, Jönköping and Svendborg | Bodø City Hall (City Council Hall) | ||
| 12:15-13:00 | Lunch | Bodø City Hall Canteen (top floor) | ||
| 13:00-14:50 | Visit New Airport. Introduction by Irene Skiri, Project Director Bodø Municipality and tour by Tor O. Iversen, Senior Adviser Communications Avinor | Avinor/New Airport area | ||
| 15:00–16:30 | Total preparedness commission by Odd Jarl Borch | Bodø City Hall (City Council Hall) | ||
| Nordics in Nato by The Norwegian Joint Headquarters (NJHQ) | ||||
| 18:15 | Bus departure | Quality Hotel Ramsalt | ||
| 18:30 | Sami cultural programme and dinner | Saltfjell Sámi Adventure, Nordland Culture Centre | ||
| TBA | Bus departure for hotel |
| Time | Programme | Venue | ||
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| 08:30 – 10:00 | Girjegumpi – Sami exhibition by Kristoffer Dolmen, Curator | Bådåddjo/Buvvda Musea (Museum) 2024, Torvgata 8b (city centre) | ||
| 10:15 - 11:30 | Rescue operations in Northern Norway | Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Bodø (JRCC) | ||
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Bus to Nord University | |||
| 11:50 – 12:30 | Lunch | Grillen Cafeteria, Nord University | ||
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Emergency preparedness development and cooperation in Bodø by NordLab - Center for Crisis Management and Collaboration | Nord University | ||
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Bus to Bodø City Hall | |||
| 14:30 – 15:45 | Comprehensive security and preparedness: Way forward – cooperation, challenges and opportunities in Bodø, Kuopio, Jönköping and Svendborg | Bodø City Hall (City Council Hall) | ||
| 15:45 - 16:30 | Closure: | |||
| Sum-up by Mayor Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen | ||||
| Sister City cooperation | ||||
| Svendborg Sister City conference 2026 | ||||
| 17:45 | Bus to Norwegian Jekt Trade Museum | Quality Hotel Ramsalt | ||
| 18:00 | Guided Tour | Norwegian Jekt Trade Museum* | ||
| 19:30 | Dinner | Vengen skafferi, Norwegian Jekt Trade Museum | ||
| 22:00 | Bus departure for hotel |
*Museum of the Year 2024 (Norway)
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Conference registration
Registration has now closed.
Accommodation
Bodø Municipality has made a block booking for conference participants at Quality Hotel Ramsalt. They offer standard single rooms for a discount price of NOK 1390 per night including breakfast. Accommodation costs are covered by the participants.
The block booking is not available for any new bookings, as the deadline has expired.