Sundsvall day after yesterday

A day after the project meeting. I am very pleased with the results. Before the results of the meetings at Mid Sween University I have to say a couple of words about the flight on a little (sex seats) airplane, the landscape in Sundsvall and the temperature in Sundsvall, the county of Västernorrland. Especially the landscape over there in the region of Sundsvall (even if the High Coast(Höga Kusten) begins in the north of Härnösand, about 70 km north of Sundsvall) is very beutiful and special, you get a feeling of being in the northern part of Finland.

After landing at Midlanda Airport the cold weather came to meet us. When leaving Pori - 2 degrees in the morning, but when arriving in Sundsvall nearly - 20 degrees Celsius. A totally different weather was waiting for us. In Pori it was pourraining with plus degrees on Sunday evening.

The plane was, as I mentioned, a little one, hired from Turku Air. It takes six persons onboard and the flight was very pleasent, took only 50 minutes from Pori to Turku. It was like sitting in a private car. The route was more stabil than on our narrow and dangerrous road between Pori and Rauma.

The landscape is very beautiful covered with much more snow than here in Satakunta. The landscape is full of hills outside the town of Sundsvall. Sundsvall is a twin city of Pori, having about 95 000 inhabitants.

But to the results of the conference and cooperative meetings.

We started with an open conference presentating the Botnia-Atlantica (EU)-programme, the UniPlatform project, the region of Satakunta, our universities and R&D-functions. The conference lasted two hours and there were 15 people listening to us.

During these two days we managed to find new partners to our cooperation over mountains and sea. There are some results which must now be elaborated during the next two months and be realized in real actions.

Returned yesterday happy but tired. And now the planning of actions and activities begins...

Timo