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
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
A virtual final event brought the SKILLS+ project to its end after almost five years of interregional collaboration. 12 partners from 11 countries exchanged during the project lifetime about strategies to promote digitisation in rural areas, with focus on SME. The final event was attended by more than 40 persons and provided the opportunity to... read more
Topic: Urban and rural developmentThe OptiTrans partnership met in Erfurt on 29-20 Nov 2019 for the final project event of phase 1. In the coming two years the implementation of the elaborated action plans will be monitored, aiming at the improvement of the public transport system in the regions through the effective use of funding... read more
Topic: Transport
With Phase 1 of the project SKILLS+ coming to its close, partners met on 12 March 2019 in Magdeburg (DE) to present the action plans that have been elaborated at the project’s mid-term workshop. Based on recommendations and good practices provided by other partners, each of the eleven partner regions prepared an action plan to support the... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development