Germany
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Testimonial by Ahmet Taner, head of the Alevi community in Berlin (Germany)
31/01/2013
Ahmet Taner, head of the Alevi Muslim community in Berlin, is proud of helping his community participate in the social life of the city thanks to the EU-funded Neighbourhood Management initiative in Berlin.
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REGIO STARS 2013 winner – CityStar
31/01/2013Offering local people the opportunity to take decisions about their own neighbourhoods can help transform deprived city areas into more agreeable places to live. In Germany, Berlin’s Neighbourhood Management programme has proved that this approach works, by sharing responsibility for local development with Neighbourhood Councils. This innovative project, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, helps people to build partnerships and revitalise their urban environment. It is enabling Berlin to become a ‘socially integrative city’.
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Rurban – Germany
29/08/2012In today's Europe, rural-urban relations can be complex and challenging. In the Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg, in Germany, rural-urban partnerships, with support from the European Commission via the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), are offering new opportunities in the fields of food production, tourism and energy supply.
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Rurban – Germany
29/08/2012In today's Europe, rural-urban relations can be complex and challenging. In the Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg, in Germany, rural-urban partnerships, with support from the European Commission via the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), are offering new opportunities in the fields of food production, tourism and energy supply.
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Flood risk management
01/10/2011This video takes you on a discovery of the ELLA+LABEL project, a cooperation initiative launched in 2003, with support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), between the different countries of the Elbe River basin, with the aim of reducing flood risks. The project came about in the wake of the massive floods in 2002 which caused more than 100 deaths and resulted in some €12 billion of damages. Since then, the Central European countries affected by these floods have undertaken widespread cooperation in a bid to ensure that floods of such magnitude never happen again. The prevention mechanisms introduced have also resulted in the creation and development of many SMEs.
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LABEL: Uwe Restetzki (story)
01/10/2011This clip presents the work of Uwe Restetzki, senior fire officer in Görlitz, Germany. Discover how the LABEL project, supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), allows his service to offer the people of Görlitz better protection by reducing the risk of flooding from the Neisse river.
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UGR: Sven Clément (story)
01/10/2011In this video profile, Sven Clément, a third-year student in economic informatics at the University of Saarbrücken, explains the advantages of the UGR project for his studies. The UGR project, supported by the ERDF, makes it easy for him to consult his grades and access the libraries of all member universities for free. Furthermore, the intercultural aspect of the UGR project allows him to forge a better understanding of the people he may have to work with, be they French, Belgian, German or Luxembourger.
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UGR: Christian Wagner (story)
01/10/2011In this video profile, professor of experimental physics Christian Wagner explains how the UGR project impacts on his life and on the lives of some of his students. As a professor, he sees students who have spent their first two years studying in Nancy or in Luxembourg before spending their third year at the University of Saarland, where he works. The UGR project, supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), is important for them and for him, because it offers harmonised evaluations and simplifies administrative formalities. Since the project began, he has noticed many improvements and his daily work has become much easier.
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University of the Greater Region
01/10/2011The University of the Greater Region (UGR) project brings together seven universities in four different countries. Through the UGR project, students, researchers and professors from these university institutions are able to explore new work and study prospects as well as new research networks, while gaining firsthand experiences of other languages and diverse cultures, thus laying the foundations for a truly European university. The administrative, legal and financial issues raised by the UGR project could lead to the development of solutions that may one day be used by all European universities, thus removing knowledge barriers and at the same time promoting cultural diversity, something highly valued by European citizens.
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NEWADA
08/12/2010This video showcases the NEWADA (Network of Danube Waterway Administrations) project. Co-funded by the ERDF, it aims to increase cooperation between eight countries on improving infrastructures and developing waterway connections along the Danube – a vital transport corridor linking eastern and western Europe – chiefly by pooling the technical resources of the various river authorities.
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NEWADA: László Szabo (story)
08/12/2010This video profiles László Szabo, a customs officer in Mohacs, a small town at the crossroads between Hungary, Serbia and Croatia. Thanks to the NEWADA project, co-financed by the ERDF, he is now able to work in more modern conditions with his Serb and Croat colleagues.
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EU Strategy for the Danube Region: Danubeparks
08/12/2010This video showcases Danubeparks, a cross-border cooperation project bringing together experts from some eight countries to defend protected zones along the Danube and preserve an ecosystem of 7 000 species threatened by intense river activity.
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Danubeparks: Mathias Schmidt (story)
08/12/2010This video profiles Mathias Schmidt, one of the many scientists involved in the Danubeparks project. A native of the Danube region, and now a research assistant in ornithology for Birdlife Austria, he is actively contributing to restoration of the river’s banks. In particular, he spent two years studying two species of birds threatened by the construction of a dyke.
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EU Strategy for the Danube Region
01/12/2010This video showcases the European Strategy for the Danube Region and highlights a whole series of promising projects in regional key areas such as transport, energy, the environment, security, and socio-economic development.
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RegioStars 2010: “new business model” project
01/05/2010This video showcases the RegioStars 2010 winning project in the “ICT applications by or for SMEs” category. The first of its kind in Brandenburg, this project has pooled expertise from several regional partners by using telemedicine in order to monitor and treat patients who have suffered heart problems outside their traditional medical environment. Its general aim is to reduce the number of hospital admissions per patient. Over 100 patients have benefited from this project.
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RegioStars 2010: “new business model” project (story)
05/01/2010Story of Günter Lohr, pensioner living day-to-day with health problems, but who has benefited from telemedicine. This video was produced as part of the “New business model” project, the RegioStars 2010 winner in the “ICT applications by or for SMEs” category.
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EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
11/06/2009Video showcasing the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. The Baltic Sea Region faces several types of problems relating to the environment, access, the mobility of people and goods, economic isolation, and security. Faced with this situation, the countries involved appealed to the European Commission, asking it to devise a long-term strategy for the region’s future development. The result was the European Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. The strategy centres around four main themes: preserving the environment; developing the region’s economy courtesy of exchanges between the various countries; enhanced accessibility and appeal; and tighter security.
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ERDF in Germany’s Länder
10/01/2009"We want to be German Europeans and European Germans," said former Chancellor Helmut Kohl in relation to German reunification. Twenty years on, EU funds (ERDF) were allocated to the new federal states (Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, and part of Berlin).The €46 billion between 1990 and 2013 are making success stories like Biocity in Leipzig and an urban development project in Merseburg possible.
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Energy Agency NRW
02/01/2009This video showcases the NRW energy agency, based in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). The project, which was co-funded by the ERDF, offers key expertise to the authorities and enterprises in the region with regard to managing energy needs.