The fourth meeting was generously hosted by the City of Turku and jointly organized by UBC Environment and Sustainable Development secretariat together with the Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association, City of Botkyrka and Malmö and the Finnish Association of Local and Regional Authorities.
The meeting was co-funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers through a Support facility project.
In the meeting 37 participants took part, representing 15 cities, three national associations from Nordic and Baltic region and three other organizations.
In connection to the meeting a peer review training was organized for all interested par-ticipants. This training was attended by 34 participants.
Please find the meeting programme here 
Please find the meeting conclusions here
Programme & presentations
16.10. 2007 Peer Review day
12.00 Networking lunch
13.00 Welcome to Turku Practicalities
13.15 Introduction to the topic
13.30 – 16.30 Peer Review trainings with coffee break Two groups:
1. Introduction to the peer review method, Sakari Saarinen, UBC, Commission on Environment
2. Further development of peer review benchmarks
16.30 – 18.30 Upcoming peer review and other activities
19.30 Reception of the city of Turku, Opening of the Network meeting, the Vice- Mayor of Turku Jarkko Virtanen
17.10. 2007 Roundtable, support facility and logo
9.00 Follow-up on the network initiatives National roundtables
Support facility, Logo for the network
9.35 Liveable municipalities in Norway, Mona Nilsen, The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities
10- 10.15 The Baltic Sea challenge Olli-Pekka Mäki, Head of Environmental Department, City of Turku.
10.15 – 12.00 Focus on Social dimension of the Aalborg Commitments in cooperation with the Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association.
1. Local action for health - how to promote and evaluate them, Dr. Sakari Suominen, University of Turku
2. Public Health Department HEPRO Focus on health and social well-being in the Baltic Sea Region,Niels Kr. Rasmussen, National Institute of Public Health, Denmark
3.Case presentations by A health policy made by the citizens - an example of a bottom-up process from the Municipality of Vejle, Birgit Dall Hersland, Municipality of Vejle, Denmark.
4.Whats on the welfare, labour market and social agenda in Västerås, today and for the next three years, Per-Arne Blomberg city of Västerås, Sweden
13.00 – 15.00 Focus on Economical dimension of the Aalborg Commitments
1. The relation between the social and the economical dimension, Katrina Folland and Jonas Andersson, City of Göteborg, Sweden.
2. Sustainable Development – putting theory into practise and giving better economy - for all. Hans Otto Lund, city of Kristiansand, Norway
3. Challenges in Economical and social dimensions of Aalborg Commitments, Emilio d’Alessio, city of Ancona, Italy
15.30 – 16.00 Conclusions of the meeting
