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[Digest] Study presentation: Cooperation between EU cities and regions with their Ukrainian partners
Short link to this post: https://bit.ly/3PAVzfv 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 Read more…
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[Digest] Study presentation: Cohesion Policy in EU Coal Regions
Short link to this post: https://bit.ly/3kFDBvo 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 Read more…
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[Digest] Social Challenges in Cities
Short link to this post: bit.ly/3VPi2pb 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 Read more…
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[Digest] Study presentation – The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine on EU cohesion Part II: Overview and outlook
Short link to this post: https://bit.ly/3DUmcED 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 Read more…
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[Digest] Study presentation: Cohesion Policy in Northernmost Regions of the EU
Short link to this post: https://bit.ly/3fJhUrO 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 Read more…
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[Digest] Study presentation: EU tools to respond to natural disasters
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…
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[Digest] Study presentation: Cross-border cooperation in healthcare
Short link to this post: https://bit.ly/3wNel84 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 Read more…
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[Digest] Study presentation: Artificial Intelligence and Urban Development
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…
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[Digest] Study presentation: EU lagging regions: state of play and future challenges
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…
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[Digest] Study presentation: Cohesion Policy and Climate Change
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…
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[Digest] Workshop: Just Transition Fund
How can the Just Transition Fund support the EU transition to climate neutral economy? That was the main question of discussion during the workshop on Just Transition Fund (JTF) organised by Parliamentary Committee for Regional Development (REI) on 19 February 2020. During the workshop, independent experts provided information about the Read more…
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[Digest] Study presentation: Gender Dimension of the EU Cohesion Policy
How can the cohesion policy support gender equality in the European Union? On 4 November, Manuela Samek Lodovici from Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale made a presentation of the study “Gender Dimension of the EU Cohesion Policy”. The study analyses how EU cohesion policy addresses the gender dimension and the Read more…
