core-consult participated in the first Programme Conference of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme on 18 October 2022 in Hamburg. During the event we met with partners from several projects and had a chance to exchange with officers of the Joint Secretariat. During the event the launch of the 2nd call for project was announced.... read more
Program: Baltic Sea Region
When a long line of fire trucks zigzagged its way to Löbau last Saturday (22/10/22) many residents asked themselves what might be happening. It was not just Löbau's fire brigade but trucks from a number of fire brigades from different towns in the Luban district in Poland who had come to Löbau for a joint exercise. The fire brigades practised... read more
Topic: Civic protection, Climate protection
How should the border region of Lusatia - Lower Silesia reposition itself in the light of the German coal phase-out? This was also the topic of intense discussion at the final conference of the TransGredio project in Boleslawiec (26.09.2022). On the Polish side in particular, there are strong fears of being left behind economically by the planned... read more
Topic: Institutional capacities, Urban and rural development
Partners of the SKILLS+ project (Interreg Europe) met on June 14th, 2022, in Tangerhütte and Stendal (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) for a peer review of local digitisation strategies and a partner workshop. Before noon, speakers provided insights in efforts to digitalise the local public administration, to provide broadband access through fibre-optic... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
After the pandemic has made in-person meetings of the partners of the RegiaMobil project impossible for most of its lifetime, almost all partners have been able to attend the project's final event on May 19th, 2022, in Brussels. There, partners presented the outcomes of the project and discussed current and future challenges to public transport... read more
Topic: Transport
Since 2019 the Mountain Region Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří has the status of a UNESCO World Heritage site, including lesser known sites such as the former mining region of Vrch Mĕdník (Kupferberg). In the project "ArchaeoMontan @ School" the Saxon State Office of Archaeology and the Institute for Archaeology Most (UAPP) aim to make their knowledge... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Education
With a hybrid final event on March 17th, 2022, in Weißenfels and online the YOUMOBIL project has ended. During the conference the results of the project were presented, including a study analysing how the pandemic has had an impact on the mobility patterns of young people. Presentations and photos from the event are available for download on the... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Transport
Partners of the Arrival Regions project met on 15 and 16 February 2022 in Torino and Torre Pellice, Italy, to co-elaborate the project's final tool-box and to participate in the premiere of a short movie produced to highlight the project. The event furthermore provided the opportunity to exchange with the responsibles and beneficiaries of a pilot... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
Löbau's fire brigade received new digital message receivers to improve its response speed and a movable flood barrier. The investments were financed through the Polish-Saxon cross-border project "Kommando". Further investments to better protect human lifes and material goods in events of extreme weather will be made during 2022 by both the City... read more
Topic: Civic protection, Climate protectionOn December 9th, the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec will host the final conference of the German-Polish project 1000 Years of Upper Lusatia. Although there will still be two exhibitions - in Bolesławiec and in the Museum Bautzen - and accompanying publications, but the scientific results of our project can already be summarized and presented.... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Education