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
Partners of SKILLS+ are currently working on the elaboration of action plans aiming to transfer the results of the interregional policy learning about good practices in the promotion of digitalisation in rural areas’ businesses to action plans that will be implemented in 2019 and 2020. A partner meeting took place on 4 December 2018 in Cracow to... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
Experts from the Polish and Saxon authorities responsible for the administration of mining activities met on 12 and 13 November 2018 in Bautzen to discuss strategies to avoid and solve conflicts of interest in context of mining. The workshop addressed both the differences of the authorities’ competencies and legal frameworks as well as case... read more
Topic: Institutional capacities, Urban and rural development
The travelling exhibition about the development of mining in the Saxon-Polish border area has been inaugurated in Nochten on 18 October 2018. The exhibition was produced in the framework of the MineLife project and will be shown at different locations in Saxony until April 2019 before travelling to Lower Silesia for presentations until March 2020.... read more
Topic: Institutional capacities, Urban and rural development
Short before the conclusion of the ChemMultimodal project's pilot phase the partnership met on 12 & 13 September 2018 in Linz (AT) to assess the preliminary results: 59 businesses have participated in the pilot phase. Together with the project partners, 45 transport routes have been identified where a potential of multimodal transport is... read more
Topic: Transport, Urban and rural development
Partners of SKILLS+ met on 31 August 2018 in Kajaani (Finland) to exchange about action plans that are currently in elaboration across all partner territories. The action plans will mainstream the good practices identified during the international exchange and improve existing programmes and strategies. Good news were reported from the Hungarian... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
Representatives of municipalities and interest groups were invited to participate in a forum presenting the intermediate results of a study for the border area between Saxony and Lower Silesia to discuss approaches for spatial planning and regional development of the border area. The event was also used to launch the consultation phase of the... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Institutional capacities, Urban and rural developmentAfter the conclusion of the peer review phase of the SKILLS+ project has been terminated, the consortium members are now engaged in the elaboration of action plans to mainstream identified good practices. Against this background a stakeholder meeting took place on 11 June 2018 in Magdeburg. Saxony-Anhalt's action plan will be finalised later in... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development
On the 23 and 24 of April 2018, within the project MineLife, a two-day workshop in Demitz-Thumitz took place. One of the main objectives was to analyze the conflicts caused by active mining, to learn about the procedures in conflict management in the partner country and to compare the proposed solutions in both countries. There are two more... read more
Topic: Institutional capacities, Urban and rural development
After all eleven partner regions/countries involved in SKILLS+ were visited by international peer review teams composed by both project partners and external stakeholders, each partner has now received a set of recommendations to take into account for the elaboration of an Action plan detailing how the results of the policy learning will be... read more
Topic: Urban and rural development