Urban and rural development

· 11.10.2024 ·

Peer visits to industrial areas in Mecklenburg

This week, delegations of partners of the project GreenIndustrialAreas have visited industrial areas in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which either participate in the project's running pilot phase or which have already been certified as "green industrial areas" through the so-called state dialogue of the regional government. The delegations met... read more

Topic: Climate protection, Urban and rural development
Program: Baltic Sea Region

· 18.06.2024 ·

Exchange on promotion of migrant entrepreneurship

Partners met on 11 June 2024 for their 3rd Thematic seminar to exchange about experiences and good practices, this time with focus on the promotion of entrepreneurship among third country nationals. While in Linköping (Sweden), the event's participants had the opportunity to hear first hand from the persons responsible for the implementation of... read more

Topic: Urban and rural development
Program: Interreg Europe

· 04.12.2023 ·

Challenges and needs of integration

The first of three Thematic Seminars of the MILEstone project took place on November 28th, 2023. The hybrid event focussed on challenges in the management of migration and labour market integration of non-EU residents. Participants from different European countries shared their solutions and good practices. In his keynote, Dr. Peter Mehl of the... read more

Topic: Demographic change, Urban and rural development
Program: Interreg Europe

· 28.09.2022 ·

Structural change: the great challenge in the Saxon-Polish border region

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
Program: Saxony-Poland

· 23.06.2022 ·

Reviewing digitisation in rural areas

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
Program: Interreg Europe

· 25.02.2022 ·

Movie premiere and Partner meeting in Torino

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
Program: Central Europe

· 11.11.2021 ·

Structural change in practice: the coal phase-out

On 09.11.2021, the first of four planned workshops on structural change in Germany took place in the Hoyerswerda region. The workshop on tourism, culture and the natural environment was attended by representatives of regional authorities from the border areas and German and Polish experts. The main objective of the workshop was to present the... read more

Topic: Urban and rural development
Program: Saxony-Poland

· 13.10.2021 ·

Webinar on structural change in the Saxon coalfields

The Marshal's Office of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship together with the Saxon State Ministry of Regional Development organized a webinar on 12.10.2021 entitled "Impact of structural changes in Saxony on the development of border areas of Lower Silesia". This promotional activity was linked to study visits and workshops which are planned within... read more

Topic: Climate protection, Urban and rural development
Program: Saxony-Poland

· 21.09.2021 ·

Hybrid partner meeting

The next meeting of the Arrival Regions project took place on September 16th and 17th, 2021, in Osijek (HR) and online. Discussions during the event focused on all partner regions’ completed pilot actions and resulting policy recommendations. Results of the project will be summarized in form of a tool-box highlighting approaches for a... read more

Topic: Urban and rural development
Program: Central Europe

· 30.06.2021 ·

Successful 5th call Interreg Europe bid

The 5th call of the Interreg Europe programme allowed partnerships of already completed or still running projects to apply for additional funds to realize new activities between autumn 2021 and summer 2022. Partners of SKILLS+ took advantage of the opportunity and were supported by core-consult to draft an application to exchange how digital tools... read more

Topic: Urban and rural development
Program: Interreg Europe