2022 has ended with the great news on the adoption of the seven active Interreg NEXT programmes. Now it’s time to get to know them better. Our journey starts by taking a closer look at two programmes of the Interreg NEXT family that can be fairly considered as “giants” of CBC in the east, one […]
Can satellite images help save water ecosystems? Yes, they do. And the more people know about “reading” data, the higher the possibility to intervene and shield the environment. Especially young scientists and researchers. […]
Eyes on the youth! On 7 and 8 November the “Interreg Youth Road Show” headed to the Southeast Mediterranean, bringing around 30 representatives of the European Commission and the European Parliament to meet the youth of Thessaloniki and Serres (Greece). Four Interreg programmes took a chance to showcase their youth project in vocational training, employability, […]
“Tourism is not just about history, gloss and glamour: it is a service that companies provide. Many small enterprises manage their business not based on knowledge, but at the call of their hearts, which does not always have a positive impact on the quality of services provided by tourism companies.” George Stampoulis, Head of the […]
The Black Sea is a mosaic of complex interacting ecosystems, rich in natural resources and providing a vital habitat for endangered species. But this treasure is also threatened by the concentration of intense human activities: fishery, contaminated rivers, poorly treated wastewaters, gas, and oil industry exploitations, and of course the recent perforations in the seabed… […]
White brined cheese from Bulgaria, berries from the Republic of Moldova, Greek virgin olive oil, tomatoes from Romania, Turkish strawberries and honey from Ukraine. What do these products have in common? Are they the main ingredients to a crazy recipe? Not at all! These are all special traditional agricultural products grown by local farmers all […]
Vessels, buildings, statues, artefacts, sites, even human remains: this is all “underwater cultural heritage”, defined by UNESCO as human traces with cultural, historical or archaeological character, that have been under water for at least 100 years. Definitely, a heritage worth preserving and object of interest for the most curious minds. The ENI CBC TREASURE project […]
They are going “fishing for litter”: a small “army” of hundreds of fishermen, students, teachers and civil society organisations. They are collecting plastics around the Black Sea, to clean up square kilometres of beaches and water. And they are learning how a good solid waste management could reduce the pollution’s impact on our precious ecosystems. […]
The Black Sea Basin programme draws the lessons of ENPI CBC and moves forward. Combining three types of European instruments, ERDF, ENI and IPA, the programme covers a territory with a number of countries well above the average of the other programmes of the CBC community. From the Turkish shores, to countries in the Caucasus […]
In Armenia, 100 potential applicants of the ENI CBC Black Sea Basin programme participated in project preparation workshops organised in Yerevan (14 March) and Vanadzor (16 March). These events were delivered with support from TESIM, in close collaboration with the programme Managing Authority, Joint Technical Secretariat and National Authority in Armenia. They included interactive sessions […]