With Phase 1 of the project SKILLS+ coming to its close, partners met on 12 March 2019 in Magdeburg (DE) to present the action plans that have been elaborated at the project’s mid-term workshop. Based on recommendations and good practices provided by other partners, each of the eleven partner regions prepared an action plan to support the... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
Partners of SKILLS+ are currently working on the elaboration of action plans aiming to transfer the results of the interregional policy learning about good practices in the promotion of digitalisation in rural areas’ businesses to action plans that will be implemented in 2019 and 2020. A partner meeting took place on 4 December 2018 in Cracow to... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
Partners of SKILLS+ met on 31 August 2018 in Kajaani (Finland) to exchange about action plans that are currently in elaboration across all partner territories. The action plans will mainstream the good practices identified during the international exchange and improve existing programmes and strategies. Good news were reported from the Hungarian... read more
Topic: Urban and rural developmentAfter the conclusion of the peer review phase of the SKILLS+ project has been terminated, the consortium members are now engaged in the elaboration of action plans to mainstream identified good practices. Against this background a stakeholder meeting took place on 11 June 2018 in Magdeburg. Saxony-Anhalt's action plan will be finalised later in... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
The City of Zadar (HR) hosted the last thematic workshop of the OptiTrans project (16 – 17 May 2018) with the specific focus on „Public transport networks and flexibilisation“. Demand-responsive transport or flexible transport services is an advanced, user oriented form of public transport characterized by flexible routing and scheduling of... read more
Topic: TransportAbruzzo Region hosted the third thematic Workshop of the OptiTrans project in L’Aquila on 18-19 April 2018. Stroked by an earthquake in 2009 the restoration of the regional public transport system is in the political focus. “Use of ICT to react in realtime to fluctuating demand” and “Rural-urban linkage development approach: the role of... read more
Topic: Transport
After all eleven partner regions/countries involved in SKILLS+ were visited by international peer review teams composed by both project partners and external stakeholders, each partner has now received a set of recommendations to take into account for the elaboration of an Action plan detailing how the results of the policy learning will be... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
Contracted by Kainuun Etu Oy, a regional development associated located in Kajaani (Finland), core-consult organised the internal evaluation process of the BRIDGES project (Interreg Europe). The project addresses the promotion of the commercialisation of innovations. The evaluation took the form of a peer review and was realised on 21 November... read more
Program: Interreg Europe
An international peer review team has visited several institutions in Saxony-Anhalt this week. The peer review focused on policies promoting the digitization of small and medium-sized enterprises in rural areas. The review team’s preliminary findings were shared with the interested public on 7 September 2017 at Magdeburg.... read more
Program: Interreg Europe
The OptiTrans project team and external stakeholders from the partner regions met in Tartu (EE) for the first thematic workshop “Intermodal Mobility”. Using the City of Tartu as example the experts were seeking answers to the question how to arrange transport connections in the City and neighboring Municipalities in efficient and... read more
Program: Interreg Europe