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 development
The final workshop of a series of three events targeting local youth organized by the YOUMOBIL project took place on 23 September 2020 in Weißenfels and allowed the participating young people to visualize their ideas for the revitalisation of the city's train station using the computer game Minetest. The results will soon become subject of a... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Transport, Urban and rural development
After the Covid-19 pandemic caused a longer pause the workshop series of the YOUMOBIL project in Weißenfels was continued on 30 June 2020. The workshops are staged together with local youth to develop ideas to revitalize the disused train station building of the city. The event was opened by an address by Lord Mayor Bobby Risch, who thanked the... read more
Topic: Transport, Urban and rural development
The Regional Archive of Karlovy Vary and the municipality's Museum of Karlovy Vary were destinations of a site-visit of the partners of the Archiv-Net project on November 26th, 2019. On site, participants learned about the history and legal framework of archives of the Czech Republic and the archeological collection of the local museum. Another... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Urban and rural development
This question was subject of a lively debate among the participatns of the second transnational partner meeting of the ARRIVAL REGIONS project which took place between November 20th and 22nd, 2019, in Pilsen (CZ). The project aims at improving the social and economic integration of non-EU nationals, hence refugees and migrant workers alike.... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
As partner of the ARRIVAL REGIONS project, Burgenlandkreis aims to realise a pilot measure starting in spring 2020 to promote the integration of young refugees into the labour market. The focus will be on those enrolling and continuing apprenticeships who shall benefit from additional activities aiming at their societal integration. The idea for... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
Partners of the Saxon-Polish project MineLife have visited the legacy of uranium mining in the surroundings of Bad Schlema on September 4 and 5, 2019. In the Ore Mountains, uranium was mined on military order of the Soviet Union between 1946 and 1990, often without consideration of the environmental impact. Participants of the event learned on... read more
Topic: Urban and rural developmentThe partners of the ARRIVAL REGIONS project met for the first time on May 9 and 10, 2019. The project which was launched in April 2019 promotes the social and economic integration of non-EU nationals (incl. refugees). After the partners first met at the premises of the Lead Partner, the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, in Leipzig, they... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Institutional capacities, Urban and rural development
core-consult successfully participated in public tenders and will support the implementation of two further transnational projects in the next years. Both projects are financed by the INTERREG Central Europe programme. In the first project, YOUMOBIL, the challenge to find answers to the mobility needs of young people in rural areas is in the... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Transport, Urban and rural development
Stakeholders of archeology, agriculture and forestry discussed during the transnational workshop the threats to archeological heritage posed by land use through agriculture and forestry. Representatives of the State Office for Archeology of Saxony presented examples where heritage protection authorities worked together with farmers to adjust and... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Urban and rural development