This week a major milestone has been reached by the ENI CBC community, with the guidelines for programme closure advancing to their final approval stage after a comprehensive consultation launched by DG REGIO. In this context, the deadline for finalization of ENI CBC project activities is quickly approaching; by early September, already 38% of the projects […]
Right skills for quality jobs. 2023 has been announced the European Year of Skills (EYS) with the aim to address skills gaps in the EU and help to reskill people with the focus on digital and green technology. The CROSSCOMP project totally falls into the spirit of the initiative. Building a dialogue between the academia […]
The recent devastating earthquake in Türkiye has questioned all of us: ‘how prepared are we to face natural disasters?’ The Greek, Turkish, Romanian and Moldovan partners of the REDACt project are working on enhancing the preparedness to earthquakes in the Black Sea Basin, targeting both competent authorities and citizens. We have talked to Konstantinos Papatheodorou, […]
Olives, citrus and almonds are of major agricultural importance in the Mediterranean, yet not exempt from the effects of climate change and emerging parasites. These threats are affecting Italian and Tunisian fields, demanding innovative technology for the creation of sustainable practices to prevent pests and protect tree crops. Thus, the collaboration between the two countries […]
Moray Gilland has become the new Head of D1 Unit, within DG REGIO. TESIM Communication Coordinator Daniela Cavini met him on the side of his first meeting with representatives of the ENI CBC and Interreg NEXT programmes involving the Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. Here is what he told her. […]
Bringing back life to the city centre while strengthening cooperation with Ukrainian partners. It’s happening in Botoșani, Romania, 40 kilometres south of the border with Ukraine. A city with a beautiful monumental centre that used to be a crossroads, where traders all around the world would meet to sell their goods and exchange. Some of […]
When war sirens start screeching through the skies of Lviv, she speeds up the van she’s driving and crosses back to Poland, through the Krościenko border. Karolina Kiwior, 32, cartograph in daily life, Polish coordinator of the SOSRescue project, has been a mountain rescuer all her life. It was kind of natural for her to […]
He is not a “beneficiary”: he’s a young cooperation actor, contributing to the discovery of solutions to improve people life and to foster progress across the European external borders. Dmitrii Motorin, 31, is a Russian researcher working for the CBC project OneDrop, under the South-East Finland-Russia programme. The initiative is developing a real break-through, a […]
A growing global interest for the Arctic is unlocking considerable economic opportunities for the region, such as tourism. Among many aspects of Arctic tourism development in the northern parts of Finland and Russia, cross-border mobility is not the last on the list. The Vartius project, co-funded by the Karelia CBC Programme, creates the necessary pre-conditions […]
The energy demand is increasing all over the world, and some countries of the south-east Mediterranean region are already experiencing energy shortages and power cuts. In Lebanon, the building stock consumes around 78% of the overall electricity generated in the country. While this percentage varies across the region, this proportion is not negligible. That is […]