In the Mayor's office of the City of London the 2nd seminar aimed at increasing business cooperation between St. Petersburg, London and Kotka-Hamina (Finland) was held.During the visit to Northern Ireland’s capital, with the assistance of Dublin City Council, the panel discussion on sustainable city development was held.
In the Mayor's office of the City of London the 2nd seminar aimed at increasing business cooperation between St. Petersburg, London and Kotka-Hamina (Finland) was held. Mrs. O.A. Kazanskaya, the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, and Mrs. Fiona Woolf, the Lord Mayor of London, H. Lindelef, the Mayor of Kotka, representatives of the Committee for Industrial Policy and Innovation, the Committee for Informatization and Communications, the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the United Kingdom, the Trade Delegation of the Russian Federation in the United Kingdom, St. Petersburg Development Fund for Small and Medium Enterprises, as well as representatives of the Cluster of Medical and Ecological Instrument Engineering and Biotechnologies, and of the Russian, British and Finnish companies took part in the seminar.
During the visit to London there were meetings of the delegation members with Healthcare UK, National Health Service Englan, TechCity, London University College Hospital representatives. Apart from this, the meetings of the delegation and the director of the Surrey Research Park and Mrs. I.V. Zlobina, the director of St. Petersburg Information and Business Center in Guilford were organized.
During the visit to Northern Ireland’s capital, with the assistance of Dublin City Council, the panel discussion on sustainable city development was held. In Dublin there were also meetings with Mr. S. Coveney, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine of Ireland, and Mr. O. Quinn, the Lord Mayor of Dublin.
The cultural program included the concert of the Skomorokh Orchestra and N. Walker, British composer, in St. James Church in London, the performance of the soloists of the State Academic Russian Folk Orchestra named after V.V. Andreev, S.A. Oskolkov, the Russian pianist and composer, the soloists of St. Petersburg theaters at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin and in University College Cork, organized with the support of Culture Committee, presentation of the project The Irish dynasties in St. Petersburg and lectures dedicated to historical and cultural relations between Russia dn Ireland.