The presentation of the study took place on 27 June 2023 and focused on the following topics: Bottom-up EU-UA cooperation at the local and regional level EU programmes and instruments supporting EU-UA territorial cooperation Benefits and barriers of EU-UA territorial cooperation Future opportunities and obstacles for EU-UA territorial cooperation The Read more…
The presentation of the study took place on 27 February 2023 and focused on the following topics: How Cohesion Policy is expected to play an important role in supporting regions to meet European Union decarbonisation commitments and ambitions. On coal regions that not only face the challenge of adopting new Read more…
On 29 November 2022, Ms Iselin Berg Mulvik and Dr Roberta Cucca presented a study on social challenges in cities (prepared by PPMI). More than 60 per cent of citizens live in functional urban areas, showing that the EU is highly urbanised. The cities across the European Union are very Read more…
On 8 November, Mr Kai Bohme presented the study on the impact of COVID 19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine on EU Cohesion. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major crisis that hit people, businesses, public authorities, municipalities and regions hard. It had a strong impact on transport and Read more…
Tuesday 25 October 2022 Mr. Gløersen presented to the REGI committee the study on Cohesion Policy in the Northernmost regions of the EU. Mr Gløersen works for Spatial Foresight. His research activities focus on European territorial policies and the analysis of social and economic trends at regional and local scales. Read more…
How can EU respond to natural disasters? On 10 May, Dr. Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler from International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) made a presentation of the study “EU tools to respond to natural disasters”. The European Union has special tools and mechanisms to respond to natural disasters and for enhancing Read more…
On November 15, Ms. Fabienne Leloup from the University of Louvain presented the main findings and conclusions of the study on “cross-border cooperation in healthcare” during a meeting of the Committee on Regional Development (REGI). The main objective of this study, commissioned by the REGI committee in December 2020, was Read more…
What is the role of artificial intelligence in urban development and what are its implications for cohesion? On 27 September, Julie Pellegrin, project leader, and Louis Colnot, policy analyst from the Centre for Industrial Studies (CSIL) made a presentation of the study “Artificial Intelligence and Urban Development”. Artificial intelligence (AI), Read more…
Presentation of EU lagging regions study during the REGI Committee meeting on June 15 What are the EU’s lagging regions and what are the challenges they are facing? What role is cohesion policy playing and what could the EU do to support them better? These are some of the issues Read more…
How EU Cohesion Policy contributes to reaching the goals of EU Climate Policy? On 25 May, Dr Andrea Ciffolilli from Ismeri Europa made a presentation of the study “Cohesion Policy and Climate Change”. In view of the importance of fighting climate change, EU institutions have been setting increasingly ambitious targets Read more…