Stockholm Network - Programmes

Programmes

Currently, the Stockholm Network has three programmes: The Health and Welfare Programme, the Intellectual Property and Competition Programme and the Energy and Environment Programme. Each was developed in order to further the objective of the Network in searching for practical market-oriented solutions to the endemic problems Europeans face today.

The Stockholm Network Intellectual Property & Competition Programme was established in January 2005 and aims to achieve four key objectives:

• First, to make the field of intellectual property more mainstream and accessible to the general public
• Second, to increase the interaction between specialists focusing on different aspects of intellectual property rights
• Third, to encourage discussion, as well as debates, on different IP issues
• Finally, and perhaps most importantly, to promote European competitiveness

The Stockholm Network Energy and Environment Programme was created in early 2005 in order to promote a practical market-oriented approach to environmental problems. Environmental problems are critical issues for the general public and for policy makers alike. The Stockholm Network work in this programme recognises the importance of environmental policies in safeguarding future prosperity and endeavours to produce practical solutions—solutions that recognise economic realitie— to environmental policy dilemmas.

The Stockholm Network's Health and Welfare Programme was established at the end of 2005. The programme has the following key aims and objectives:

• To provide a comprehensive resource on European think tank initiatives in health and welfare
• To promote competition and choice in healthcare, through reform of European health systems and markets
• To promote more flexible labour markets in Europe
• To promote market-oriented reform of Europe's failing pensions systems