In the course of the SubNodes project meeting in Poznan from 22-23 August 2018 the partners and experts visited the City of Wagrowiec (25.000 inhabitants). This town was selected as location for the pilot action in the region Great Poland. Mayor Krzysztof Poszwa guided the participants through the newly reconstructed railway station, which shall... read more
Topic: Transport
Many guests attended the opening of the MiBERZ, the Museum for Medieval Mining in the Ore Mountains, in Dippoldiswalde on 23 August 2018. The museum's exhibition presents findings of two ArchaeoMontan projects that were discovered by an interdisciplinary team of Saxon and Czech scientists (more on the museum's website). At the same time... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
The pilot phase of the ChemMultimodal project has sparked first successes: In more than half of the regions addressed by the project, tests to transport chemical goods, that until now were delivered only by road, have been accomplished using multimodal solutions including rail. The efficiency of the found new transport solutions are going to be... read more
Topic: Transport
Representatives of municipalities and interest groups were invited to participate in a forum presenting the intermediate results of a study for the border area between Saxony and Lower Silesia to discuss approaches for spatial planning and regional development of the border area. The event was also used to launch the consultation phase of the... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Institutional capacities, Urban and rural development
A meeting among work package leaders of the RUMOBIL project on 14 June 2018 in Genoa addressed the methodology to assess the different pilot measures of the partner regions. Experimenting with innovative ICT eight different approaches to improve the accessibility of rural areas are tested by the partnership. Compared to the previous year,... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Transport
After 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 developmentThe partners of the project Smart Integration met on 7 and 8 June 2018 at the seat of the Marshall Office of the Lower Silesian voivodship in Wroclaw to coordinate the upcoming cross-border activities. Among others, a series of expert workshops is foreseen to discuss potentials for increased cross-border cooperation in the organisation of... read more
Topic: Institutional capacities
On 29 May 2018 the third workshop took place within the pilot phase of the ChemMultimodal project in Leuna (DE). During the pilot phase project partners collaborate with chemical companies and logistics service providers to increase the modal split of the rail transport of chemical goods and products. Speakers included representatives of DB Netz... read more
Topic: Transport
A delegation made up by the Italian and Hungarian partners of RUMOBIL and their stakeholders visited Osterburg (Saxony-Anhalt) on 30 May 2018 to learn more about the citizen bus that is in operation there since three months. The delegation was welcomed by Osterburg's mayor Nico Schulze. The guests first learned more about the pilot project's... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Transport
On 15-17 May 2018 a first thematic International Stakeholder Seminar within the project VirtualArch took place in Zadar Project partners and stakeholders from the fields of archaeology, tourism and creative industries met to discuss topics concerning the tourism as chance and challenge for the protection of archaeological heritage, 3D... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Tourism