Trabzon’s Chamber of Commerce held the last session of our training courses in Turkey. More than 30 attendees participated in this session representing many Black See Region municipalities and, above all, different Trabzon University departments. During this session we debated with the participants about the main EU funds available for the Turkish population, especially, focused on Rural Development, Learning and ...
Read More »Training Sessions in Turkey – Erzurum
In Erzurum the protagonist of our courses was undoubtedly, the University. Not only because the course was made possible through the collaboration of the Faculty of Communication at the University of Erzurum, but because they were, above all, social and university representatives who attended and participated in our training sessions. This time European neighbourhood programmes focused much of the content of ...
Read More »Training Sessions in Turkey – Diyarbakir
With some difficulties, because of the situation of police tension that exists in the city, we were able to hold our course in Diyarbakir. Unfortunately, many journalists could not attend it because that same day, just hours before the course, a terrorist attack focused media attention of the day. In any case, entrepreneurs, independent professionals, some journalists and representatives of ...
Read More »ERASMUS+, also out of the University
The Erasmus+ program is known for promoting scholarships in EU universities but reaches far beyond; promotes partnerships between organizations to improve educational processes and share knowledge. An example of this is the ESMYA project, Sentenced Education for Minors and Young Adults. The program Erasmus+ has been developed through three lines of action: learning mobility, support for education policies and cooperation. ...
Read More »Training Sessions in Turkey – Adana
At the informative session that took place in Adana, the main characters were the enterprises. In this session held with the collaboration of the Adana Chamber of Commerce, the enterprises were informed about how to access to European funds.
Read More »Training Sessions in Turkey – Izmir
The Izmir Town Hall has been the point of reference to hold the EU funds training session last July 20, under the AB Bilgi project activities. More than twenty journalists, municipal technicians, local companies representatives and from other organizations, participated on this interesting sessions focused on debate about the real options that the EU financing has for the Turkish civil ...
Read More »The network of regions of the European project WE @ EU will continue to work to boost innovation actions in water management
The network of regions that make up the European project WE @ EU, has worked for three years in the management of innovation and efficiency in water. With funding of more than two million euros, the team of nine organizations from five countries worked on the definition and testing of models of collaborative innovation in water. To achieve this, they ...
Read More »ENHANCE, a partnership to improve the resilience of the population to natural disasters
The mitigation of the impact of natural disasters is the subject of numerous European research projects. Events like a flood, the eruption of a volcano or fire, are more frequent due to causes such as climate change and, although these hazards may not be prevented, it is possible to reduce its impact. With this aim works all the partners involved ...
Read More »Roma integration as a requirement for UE enlargement
The European Commission (EC), the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) and the Open Society Foundations (OSF) jointly launched, this month, the “Roma Integration 2020” initiative. The aim of this initiative is to ensure that actions are taken in favor of the integration of Roma in countries that includes the enlargement of the European Union.
Read More »Infrarisk looking for a safer Europe with the study of their infrastructure
The European continent is a geographical area that is not exposed to numerous extreme natural hazards. However, one single flood can cause a chain reaction of damage affecting the population and infrastructure. To predict the impact of these risks, in 2013, the Infrarisk project was launched. The core objective of Infrarisk project is to develop a stress test framework to ...
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