Partners of MILEstone met between September 23rd and 25th, 2025, in Jyväskylä, Finland, to exchange about their approaches to improve addressed policy instruments to advance the labour market integration of third country nationals. Each partner introduced its strategic approach and thereafter discussed with the remaining partners how... read more
Topic: Demographic change
On 25–26 June 2025, the Green LUPO partnership met in Eupen (BE) for the first thematic workshop titled “Assessing, monitoring & classifying land: when is land ‘taken’, when is it valuable natural space?” The two-day event brought together project partners and experts from across Europe to explore the challenges of implementing the... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
Since summer 2024 the MILEstone project has adhered two new partners from Moldova and Ukraine. Earlier this week the first visit to one of the new partners, District of Ungheni, took place. The district aims at improving its development strategy to become more attractive for international workers. ... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Urban and rural development
Visits in the form of peer reviews will take place in the coming weeks and months in two Interreg projects managed by core-consult. Small delegations from various European partners meet different interest groups in a region for discussions and on-site appointments in order to exchange about good practicesand to make recommendations to the region... read more
Program: Central Europe, Interreg Europe
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
Partners and stakeholders of MILEstone met on February 28th and 29th, 2024, in Thessaloniki, Greece, for the project’s 2nd thematic seminar and their 3rd partner meeting. The thematic seminar focused on actions to promote vocational training and lifelong learning among non-EU nationals as means to achieve a better and more sustainable labour... read more
Program: Interreg Europe
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
The first meeting of the MILEstone project took place on 13 & 14 June 2023 in Zeitz (DE). During two intense working days, the participants from Sweden, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain, Germany, Slowenia and The Netherlands exchanged about successful approaches and challenges in the labour market inclusion of non-EU... read more
Program: Interreg Europe
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
The OptiTrans project came to an end with a big online event. The partner regions presented newly implemented solutions for public transport, to which the 5-year project activities had contributed significantly. The focus was on the electrification of public transport through new buses (electric, hybrid, trolleybuses) and streetcars as well as... read more
Topic: Transport