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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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