At the annual conference of the cross-border Interreg programme between Saxony and the Czech Republic on September 5, 2018, in Vejprty and Bärenstein, several speakers acknowledged the results of ArchaeoMontan. The project raised knowledge and awareness of the Ore Mountains' cultural heritage and established the first two information points for... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
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 development
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, TransportAfter 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