Working together to improve people’s life across the external European borders

Because neighbours...

...keep the
doors open

Infrastructure
...give
a hand

Economic Development
...share the
same home

Environment
...grow up
together

People-to-People

Because
neighbours
keep the
doors open

Economic competitiveness of regions depends heavily on adequate transport, logistic and communications. Projects give a possibility to local actors to work together towards sustainable solutions.

...keep the
doors open

Infrastructure
Because
neighbours
give
a hand

The creation of economic opportunities across the European borders is one of the biggest challenges faced by cross-border cooperation. Projects seek to foster business and to help people improve their skills, with benefits for all communities on both sides of the European frontier.

...give
a hand

Economic Development
Because
neighbours
share the
same home

Cross-border cooperation programmes work to strengthen a clean environment through different types of actions, from improving the quality of water to upgrading waste management facilities, from reducing marine litter to protecting endangered species.

...share the
same home

Environment
Because
neighbours
grow up
together

People-to-people exchanges are the real cement of cross border cooperation projects: they create direct links between institutions and organisations, authorities and citizens, with the purpose to promote understanding and to develop new solutions to common problems.

...grow up
together

People-to-People

Working together to improve people’s life across the external European borders

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Northern cluster programmes at the European Committee of the Regions

Northern cluster

On 27 January the European Committee of the Regions hosted the seven ENI CBC programmes cooperating with the Russian Federation. Our video resumes the key moments from the “EU-Russian Cross-Border Cooperation Information session” organised under the auspices of the Association of the European Border Regions.

Distant, yet united

COVID-19

In addition to its deadly toll and the long-lasting effects on the global economy, the outbreak of COVID-19 has impacted the daily lives and habits of millions of people around the world. It is not only about travel restrictions and home confinement, it is also about our working methods and the means used to communicate among us. Is it still possible to cooperate these days? Of course it is, and the ENI CBC community is adapting itself to this new reality so that cross-border cooperation between Member States and its neighbours is kept moving.

ENI CBC IN MOTION: March

ENI CBC State of play

Struggling together against the pandemic

Poland-Belarus-Ukraine

Viruses know no borders, and so does the health struggle: thanks to an EU supported project, emergency medical services are already functioning in the cross-border areas linking Poland, Belarus and Ukraine. Ambulances and respirators are available in the hospitals to help doctors fight against the COVID-19 pandemic: the equipment delivered through the RESCUE project is serving its purpose to help border communities to face emergencies across the European frontier.

We are going to integrate the mechanic of the ENI CBC programmes in the system that we use within the EU

Jean-Pierre Halkin

ENI CBC DG Regio

Territories at the heart of Interreg NEXT

ENI CBC Annual event Brussels

We wrote it as closure of our December bulletin: “if the day can be guessed from its morning, 2020 will rock!”. Never before – and it is many years now – had we seen the ENI CBC engines working at such speed so early in the year. To start right with an annual conference? That was something!

ENI CBC IN MOTION: February

State of play

What about bat viewing to feel history?

Economic Development
Cultural heritage

What about going “bat viewing” at night? Sitting quietly in Luznava manor, experiencing the speed, the flying skills, the whizzing of the wings enhanced by the silence, and the waves produced by these very special nightly creatures…

Looking forward Interreg NEXT

ENI CBC Annual event

What is NEXT? It’s both a title, and the name of a new generation of programmes. It’s the title of the Annual Conference of the ENI CBC community, which will take place in Brussels next week. And it’s the name chosen for the third cycle of programmes at the external EU borders in the period 2021-2027: the “Interreg NEXT (Neighbourhood External) programming”.

ENI CBC young volunteers crossing all borders

People-to-People
IVY

“There is a need to show European citizens how many benefits the European projects have to offer and that they truly change lives” (Natalia Popielska, a young Interreg volunteer from Poland). Hundreds of young people like Natalia are leaving on this mission around Europe thanks to Interreg Volunteer Youth (IVY) initiative. IVY initiative offers young people a unique opportunity to participate as volunteers in EU funded cross-border, transnational or interregional programmes and projects, and to promote their concrete achievements through personal experience.

ENI CBC IN MOTION: January

ENI CBC State of play

"TESIM: a team of 20 experts behind the cooperation across the external EU borders"

Carlos Bolaños

TESIM

Better sea connections between Finland and Russia

Infrastructure
South East Finland-Russia

From the Finnish port of HaminaKotka to St. Petersburg in Russia or vice versa for a weekend? And take your car with you too! The year-round ferry boat connection between the two ports will be developed thanks to two large infrastructure projects financed under the South-East Finland – Russia CBC Programme.

2020: the real challenge is ahead

TESIM support

Yes! It is yet again that moment of the year in which it is nearly impossible to avoid looking back at what the last twelve months have represented in our collective and personal lives. The most relevant news, the best (and worst) films, the best 9-pictures on Instagram…everything is subject to scrutiny and ranking during the last days of December.

Because neighbours matter

ENI CBC because neighbours matter

Sharing the same planet is like sharing the same building: roof, foundations, façade are a common concern to all neighbours. People across external European borders are all neighbours to each other: they share the same building – the planet. And as good neighbours do, they grow up together, they give each other a hand to build a better life, they keep doors open to welcome friends. Have a look at this short video, presenting the ENI CBC community as it enters the new year and all its challenges.

ENI CBC Programmes

A total of 16 programmes will be implemented under ENI CBC. They cover 12 land borders, one sea crossing and three sea basins, stretching from Finland and Russia in the north, to countries like Hungary and the Ukraine in the east, and Italy, Northern Africa and the Middle East in the south.
Here you will find news and information on each programme, including the programme strategy and participating countries.