From Vision to Collaborative Practice
This year the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) Annual Forum and Engagement Day was held in Visby, Sweden on 29-31 October 2024. The key words were Sustainability,…
Gilles Kittel: We want specific, tangible results with EUSAIR
“We would like the Strategy to recognise better the essential role of local and regional authorities and civil society organisations, within the revised multilevel governance logic and hence strengthen the…
Network in progress
The macro-regional Network of civil society organisations is an open and inclusive pro-European collaborative set up to promote the EU macro-regional idea. At the invitation of its initiator and coordinator,…
New MOOC course for journalists on the EU and Cohesion Policy
In a rapidly changing world, under the current uncertain and challenging conditions Cohesion policy is and remains one of the cornerstones of EU policy-making. Its success is key to implement…
Everyday Cohesion – Cohesion Field Visit 2
What is Cohesion policy? How does it influence my life in deep countryside Bulgaria or Denmark? Is there a way to reduce disparities among regions? Are there lessons learned or…
2024 REGIOSTARS awards recognise EU-funded projects for their impact
Elisa Ferreira, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, and Vasco Alves Cordeiro, President of the European Committee of the Regions, announced the winners of the REGIOSTARS 2024 in Brussels. Congratulations to…
Open call for the Danube Youth Council
Young people (18-29 years old) from nine EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) countries (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany (only Bavaria), Hungary, Moldova, Serbia and Slovakia)…
DYON is on
The EUSDR National Coordinators endorsed the establishment of the Danube Youth Organisations Network (DYON) under the Austrian EUSDR Presidency. 48 organisations from the Danube region expressed interest to cooperate on…
Visby, here we come!
The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) adopted in 2009 was the first of the macro-regional strategies. This year the EUSBSR Annual Forum & Engagement Day will be…
The next College of Commissioners and its implications
On 17 September, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled her new team of Commissioners for the next five years. Most of the important economic-related portfolios have been allocated…