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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Interreg turns 30!

ENI CBC Interreg30

30 years of cooperation between people, communities and regions across the EU borders. No matter whether internal or external: celebrating cooperation in all its shapes is the motto of the Interreg community this year.

ENI CBC IN MOTION: July

ENI CBC State of play

Economic Development

Let’s change vacations: let’s go building ancient boats

Eugenijus Kaminskis

Lithuania-Russia

Whatever you throw into the sea will come back to you

Environment
Mediterranean Sea Basin

More than 62 million of debris are estimated to be floating in the Mediterranean Sea – one of the six areas most affected by marine litter in the world. Plastic accounts for a large part of all manmade debris. Marine litter not only endangers numerous aquatic organisms – it threatens to finish up on our plates through the food chain. An EU-funded project COMMON is taking actions in the five pilot areas of the Mediterranean – in Italy, Tunisia and Lebanon – to combat the common challenge.

"Cooperation works, if you want"

National Authorities

ENI CBC

ENI CBC IN MOTION: June

ENI CBC State of play

Economic Development

Green farmers conquering shelves with IT

Brigita Tivca

TEC-MED: No elderly alone

People-to-People
Mediterranean Sea Basin

In the Mediterranean, elderly people have been particularly hit by COVID-19. The media attention has been much riveted to them but mostly as a risk group on a medical level. Isolated and lonely more than ever due to social distancing and confinement, in this unprecedented period they eminently need adequate care, both social and psychological. Emotional support, social involvement, scientific research: tackling the pandemic, an EU-funded project TEC-MED develops solutions to find some relief for older people.

Flexibility, liquidity, simplification: a response to the emergency

COVID-19 ENI CBC response

In a previous edition of this bulletin, we presented you the first measures taken by the ENI CBC community in order to cope with the immediate consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak. Now that the situation seems to have stabilised in many countries, it is time to catch up with the story where we left it.

Interreg 30: when celebration turns to solidarity

COVID-19 Interreg30

Turning celebration into solidarity, showing that cooperation is even more vital in times of crisis: this is what is happening to the Interreg 30 campaign, an initiative born to mark the 30^th anniversary of European cooperation across cities, regions and countries.

ENI CBC IN MOTION: May

ENI CBC State of play

#COVID19: a shelter for women victims of violence

People-to-People
Mediterranean Sea Basin

A safe-haven for women victims of violence: an emergency shelter where they (and their children) can immediately be hosted, even during the pandemic, to get away from homes where it is too dangerous for them to remain. It is happening in Tunisia, in the framework of the MedTOWN project financed by the EU within the ENI CBC MED programme. It is an example of a concrete response to the crisis unleashed across all borders by the COVID19 on the particularly fragile segment of abused women, and how a project was able to readjust its intervention to meet a new need arisen in the context of the pandemic.

The strength to heal wounds: empowerment

People-to-People
Estonia-Russia

A small team of five experts has found the recipe to support vulnerable families in coping with life challenges: learn something, develop a project, put it in practice within the family, share with the community. In a word, create your own way to heal your own wounds, from beginning to end. This is empowerment.

“Investments or partnership?” – Simona Pohlová, DG REGIO

ENI CBC DG Regio

The importance of synergies; the interest for cooperation as a process; the need for indicators: listen to Simona Pohlová, ENI CBC team leader within DG REGIO, explaining what a “single rule book” is, and offering the recipe for a good performing programme.

Going online: not just a transition

TESIM support

Do you remember the first time that you used Slido or Mentimeter in one of the events that you attended? Were you amused, thinking they were nothing more than fancy tools? Or did you think instead: I wanna do that in my events too!? No matter how you saw them then, after a relatively short period of time they have become a permanent and unavoidable feature in event management. Maybe it is already the time to start thinking also about what we will do of all the new tools that we have got acquainted with during this long lockdown period.

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.