Otros eventos relacionados con la política regional

Location: KULTurBRAUEREI
Görlitz
Germany

Description: An international conference on 10 October 2013 at the KULTurBRAUEREI Görlitz (Görlitz, DE) takes the experiences of cross-boarder cooperation in European boarder regions in the focus to enhance the cooperation along the boarder between Saxony and Lower Silesia. The event is hosted by the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior. Speakers at the conference include the Minister-President of the German Community in Belgium, the Polish author and researcher Krzysztof Wojciechowski, Dr. Robert Knippschild (scientific consultant of the project „Together for the Boarder Area“), Dr. Gerd Hager (Director of the Regional Association Central Upper Rhine), Dr. Joanna Pyrgiel and Sören Bollmann (Frankfurt-Słubice Cooperation Centre) as well as the President of the City of Bolesławiec Piotr Roman and the Lord Mayor of the City of Löbau Dietmar Buchholz.

The conference takes place within the project “Together for the Boarder Area Lower Silesia-Saxony”. Lead partner of the project is the Marshall Office of the Lower Silesian voivodship. The project is funded by the Operational Programme for the Cross-Boarder Cooperation between Saxony and Poland 2007-2013 to improve the collaboration between the regional authorities of the neighbouring regions. Further information about the project is available at http://www.landesentwicklung.sachsen.de/17878.htm (in German language) and http://www.umwd.dolnyslask.pl (in Polish language).

Registration Information: Online registration will open at the end of May 2013. Prior registration is already possible by email. Participation is free of charge.

Organisation responsible: Saxon State Ministry of the Interior

Contact: Conference Secretariat core-consult GmbH & Co KG Mr Frank Trepte Melanchthonstrasse 7 D-01099 Dresden E-Mail: ftrepte@core-consult.de Phone: +49 351 40767672

Registration Deadline: 30/09/2013

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Location: Europe-wide
Europe-wide
Europe-wide

Description: The European Cooperation Day campaign brings together more than 70 cooperation programmes in the European Union and its external borders. It shows the impact that cooperation programmes had in their respective territories, in particular to remove border effects and reduce disparities between regions in Europe. In its second edition, European Cooperation Day 2013 will be celebrated through over 300 events in almost 40 countries. Details on local events can be found on the campaign website from spring 2013 onwards.

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Location: St Nazaire
St Nazaire
France

Description: Spring arrives and, with it, the moment has come to choose among all the Atlantic flowers. Today, CAAC Secretariat is pleased to communicate to all interested cities the opening of a call for applications to select the Atlantic City of the Year.
Modality :http://atlanticcities.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=400%3Aconcurso-ciudad-atlantica-del-ano&catid=40%3Aciudades-atlanticas&Itemid=101&lang=en

Organisation responsible: Conference of Atlantic Arc Cities

Contact: Tamara Guirao

Registration Deadline: 16/06/2013

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Location: Nantes
Nantes
France

Description: The XIV General Assembly of the Conference of Atlantic Arc Cities will be held in Saint Nazaire. The meeting, on the theme «Atlantic Cities, engines of European development", will bring together local authorities from the Atlantic regions of five countries: France, Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland and Portugal. Also, this is an opportunity to know the results of the Award "Atlantic City of the Year." More information is to be found on the website of the Conference of Atlantic Arc Cities.

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Location: C-mine (GPS: Evence Coppéelaan 91, 3600 Genk, Belgium)
Genk
Belgium

Description: Programm:
9:30 Reception with coffee
10:00 Welcome by deputy Vandeput (Province of Limburg-Belgium)
10:15 Keynote speech on employment, education & training in the EMR by minister Paasch (German-speaking Community of Belgium) on behalf of EMR presidency
10:45 Presentation of the EU flagship initiative 'New Skills for New Jobs', ESF & EGF by Mr. Engels and Merméty (DG EMPL-European Commission)
11:30 Analysis recognition professional qualifications in the EMR by Mr. Unfried (EIPA)
12:00 Networking Lunch
13:00 Keynote speech on labour mobility & recognition of professional qualifications in the Benelux by Mr. Janssens (Secretariat-general of the Benelux Union)
13:30 Presentation good practices by Mrs. Huysmans & Deckers (case: health sector), Mr. Pankert (case: cooperation Nordrhine-Westfalia-German-speaking Community of Belgium) and Mrs. Aalsma (concept hybrid/dual learning)
15:00 Citizens Dialogue with MEP Ivo Belet & Mr. Richelle, director-general of DG EMPL-EC, moderated by journalist De Nys (VRT).
16:00 Cocktail drink

Registration Information: info@euregio-mr.eu

Organisation responsible: Euregio Meuse-Rhine Eures Meuse-Rhine Information Office of the European Parliament in Belgium Representation of the European Commission in Belgium Europe Direct Province of Limburg (Belgium)

Contact: bjornkoopmans@euregio-mr.eu (Coordinator Euregio Meuse-Rhine)

Registration Deadline: 14/06/2013

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Location: Basque Country Office in Brussels
27 rue des 2 églises, Brussels ((300 m from the Charlemagne building)
Metro: Art et Loi
Brussels
Belgium

Description: ManagEnergy Networking Event for Directors of Local and Regional Energy Agencies

The 2nd ManagEnergy Networking Event for the Directors of Energy Agencies provides a unique opportunity for the attendees to learn and share their views on sustainable energy financing initiatives at local and regional level. Starting from presentations on the future Structural and Cohesion Funds, the EU EPC Campaign and local initiatives [contracting / intracting or regional Fund], Energy Agencies’ Directors will share their experience and will brainstorm on how to enhance their performance as financial advisor. The ManagEnergy Networking Event will also enable an open discussion on the current and future needs and expectations of Energy Agencies in terms of fi¬nancing as well as how European funding streams can best respond to them.
This will be an interactive event leaving much room for discussion. It will be led by a moderator. For each topic interesting case examples will feed the discussion. The total number of participants will be limited.

Registration Information: http://bit.ly/16wshDi

Organisation responsible: FEDARENE

Contact: Dominique Bourges

Registration Deadline: 23/06/2013

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Location: Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin
Dublin
Ireland

Description: The Border, Midland and Western and the Southern and Eastern Regional Assemblies in conjunction with the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform will hold their Joint Annual Conference 2013 in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. This is an Irish EU Presidency Event. The theme of the Conference is to explore the contribution of EU Cohesion and Urban policy to economic recovery in Ireland.

Registration Information: bookings@seregassembly.ie

Organisation responsible: Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly

Contact: Derville Brennan, Research and Communications Officer, dbrennan@seregassembly.ie

Registration Deadline: 17/06/2013

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Location: Dublin Castle
Dublin
Ireland

Description: To be held on the brink between the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP7) and
its successor Horizon 2020, the EURO-SME 2013 conference is seizing the momentum for SMEs and
innovation. In the current economic conditions the main challenge for the EU – and many other
developed countries for that matter – is providing the conditions for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Sustainable, long-term growth and job creation will be delivered best through SMEs that gain and sustain their competitive advantage through innovation. The event promises to bring together hundreds of entrepreneurs, policy makers, SME support organizations from the private and the public
sector, and other intermediary bodies that will feed their energy and ideas into how to improve the EU eco-system for innovative enterprises. It will also introduce SME specific measures in Horizon 2020 to this community.

Registration Information: Registration website: http://eurosme2013.eu/register/

Organisation responsible: Enterprise Ireland and the European Commission

Contact: info@eurosme2013.ie

Registration Deadline: 09/05/2013

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Location: University College of Cork
Cork
Ireland

Description: The 4th WIRE Conference will take place at University College Cork, on the 6-7 of June 2013. It is co-organized by Enterprise Ireland and the European Commission and supported by FP7, the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.

The objective of the Conference is to bring together representatives of European regional networks and clusters, FP7 (Research Potential and Regions of Knowledge) and InterReg communities, industry representative groups and companies with regional policy makers and implementation groups, DG Research & Innovation, DG Enterprise and DG Regio officials to contribute to the debate on research, innovation and regional policy development and to better position regional actors to enhance policy formation for effective regional development.

The Conference will feature key-note speeches from Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science and Sean Sherlock TD Minister of State, Department of Enterprise, Jobs & Innovation and Department of Education & Skills with responsibility for Research & Innovation.

Registration Information: www.wire2013.eu/

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Location: CEMR, Square de Meeus 1, room Luxembourg
Brussels
Belgium

Description: Join this informal breakfast meeting to learn more about how integrated sustainability management can improve the performance of cities and municipalities all across Europe.

The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) and ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability are pleased to invite you to the 14th “Breakfast at Sustainability’s” (B@S) under the patronage of the Urban Intergroup of the European Parliament. Expert speakers from the EU (European Parliament, European Commission), the national (French government) and local (CEMR, ICLEI, RFSC Cities) level will contribute to this interactive and informative event, sharing their experience with the RFSC tool. The ICLEI B@S will be followed by a RFSC training session upon registration only (maximum 20 participants). Participants are requested to bring their own laptop. The training session is free of cost. To indicate your interest, please contact Laura Carniel at laura.carniel@iclei.org.

Registration Information: To register please email brussels-office@iclei.org by 29 May 2013.

Organisation responsible: ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

Contact: Stefania Paolazzi brussels-office@iclei.org

Registration Deadline: 29/05/2013

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Location: Gustav-Stresemann-Institute
Bonn
Germany

Description: Is your city struggling with getting adaptation to climate change in place or even getting started at all?
Are you in the middle of an adaptation development or implementation process looking for support on operational challenges?
Scientific information and theoretical ideas might overwhelm you. Maybe you seek some real life experience on how you can use this knowledge for practical solutions?
Have you found your solutions and want to share these with others in need? Maybe you can learn from less advanced cities?
Then, the Bonn Resilient Cities ‘Open European Day’ might be your opportunity to share your experience, learn from others and discuss solutions.

This first "Open European Day" is dedicated to capacity building for urban stakeholders and focusses on city to city learning. It benefits from the world-wide exchange between climate change and resilience scientists and regional and local governments at the Bonn Resilient Cities conference 31 May – 2 June. Participants will not only learn from good examples, but are encouraged to share their challenges and find solutions by exchanging with colleagues and by targeted input by experts on urban practice and applied resilience science.

Registration Information: http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/bonn2013/registration/

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Location: Sheffield Hallam University, Howard Street, S1 1WB
Sheffield
United Kingdom

Description: Over the last decades, towns and rural areas across the country received dedicated funding from the European Structural Funds to support social and economic restructuring by investing in research, innovation, business development and by promoting training and enhancing access to employment and social inclusion.

With the financial support of the European Commission we are organizing this event to bring together local stakeholders representing businesses, public authorities, universities and NGOs to exchange views on the economic and social impact of EU funding, especially of ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and of ESF (European Social Fund) as well as to share experiences in managing local and regional projects partly financed by the European Union.

Registration Information: lena.donner@euromove.org.uk

Organisation responsible: European Movement UK

Contact: Lena Donner: lena.donner@euromove.org.uk Beatrix Bojtor: +44(0)7 565476348, beatrix.bojtor@euromove.org.uk

Registration Deadline: 28/05/2013

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Location: Donostia-San Sebastian
Donostia-San Sebastian
Spain

Description: Almost 70% of the European population lives in urban areas, a proportion that continues to grow in Europe so it is gaining greater importance the impact of urban technologies on the sustainable development of our cities. With the Europe 2020 Strategy smart, inclusive and sustainable growth is boosted and It is also provided a framework in the European Union to emerge stronger from the current crisis. The goal is the ability to create jobs based on innovation of products and services. But also an effective way to address major challenges such as climate change and energy efficiency. Therefore, from the European Union in the next funding period 2014-2020 will work with special emphasis energy, mobility and new technologies as strengthening elements of intelligent cities.
However the development of cities not only depends on the development of physical elements. They have become increasingly important social and intellectual capitals. They are also of great importance participation, governance, socio-economic environment and political settings. Definitely an intelligent city or SmartCity is a city with technological solutions that enable the best possible use of their infrastructure and interaction between citizens and the urban and social environment making life easier.

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Location: Guimaraes
Guimaraes
Portugal

Description: After lots of discussion between city representatives and young people, TONETA partnership has discovered that sport is essential to reach these goals so they are organizing a meeting in Guimaraes (Portugal) next may. Guimaraes is the European Capital of Sports 2013 and Cardiff will be the same in 2014.

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Location: The conference will take place in “Het Pand” in Ghent, Belgium.

Het Pand - Onderbergen 1 - 9000 Gent, België
Ghent
Belgium

Description: After a general introduction by Karl Falkenberg, followed by 4 cases, three parallel sessions will target specific audiences. Technical sessions on techniques for characterization or remediation address environmental experts. Urban planners, policymakers and city representatives are invited to the session on communication and economical aspects.
The second day focuses on the integration of different disciplines. Case studies will present how different disciplines are integrated in one approach. A panel with leading persons will discuss the necessity of changes in practice and policy. In the afternoon of the second day a site visit will be made to the ongoing remediation of the Waalse Krook site, a textbook case of integrated approach

Registration Information: http://www.citychlor.eu/registration-form.htm

Organisation responsible: CityChlor - Interreg IVB project Lead Partner: OVAM -

Contact: Veerle Labeeuw - Project Manager citychlor@ovam.be

Registration Deadline: 30/04/2013

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