Projects Database

European cities join forces to deliver blue-green infrastructure projects

Ten European cities are delivering a range of socially innovative blue-green infrastructure (BGI) pilots through the BEGIN cross-border project. Initiatives such as building green corridors and sustainable urban drainage systems are helping cities respond to extreme weather, while boosting community cohesion and improving the environment. As well as making participating cities healthier and better places to live, the project is reducing flood risks by up to 30 %.

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Vienna is helping refugees to integrate

Vienna’s CoRE – Integration im Zentrum project aims to address the challenge of integrating refugees into the local community by developing new actions which meet their needs. To this end, it is using EU funding to set up an integrated support system.

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Deeper Franco-Spanish economic cooperation with smart specialisation

The COMPETITIV´eko project is establishing cross-border cooperation and knowledge exchange between SMEs, business clusters, technological centres and economic development agencies in the Basque Country and Navarre in Spain, and New Aquitaine in France. Aimed at boosting the competitiveness of companies with few resources, it focuses on areas within the regions’ smart specialisation strategies. This will enable each region to develop its own competitive advantages – where common interests exist.

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A win for refugees and Europe’s ageing population

The ‘In de zorg, uit de zorgen’ (Into care to be carefree) Interreg project integrated more than 140 refugees and immigrants in the healthcare sector in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion. In doing so, the initiative responded to two challenges: integrating refugees and migrants into European society, and the shortage of healthcare workers to look after Europe’s ageing population.

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Enhancing R&D to reduce lung disease in Ireland-Scotland cross-border region

To improve the diagnosis, treatment and management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the EU-funded Breath project has established a world-class cluster of researchers from across the Ireland, North Ireland and West Scotland cross-border region. This incurable respiratory condition is characterised by progressive airflow reduction, breathing difficulties, and irreversible lung damage (i.e., emphysema). Because it is often unrecognised and thus undiagnosed, it is sometimes referred to as the ‘invisible’ lung disease.

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Personalised labour market integration and social inclusion for refugees in Murcia, Spain

Refugees in the Spanish region of Murcia are receiving personal plans and ‘one-stop-shop’ support to find work and settle into the local community. An integration and inclusion programme by Murcia’s Regional Employment and Training Service (SEF) offers courses, help to obtain documents and job-matching adapted to each refugee’s needs. Spain’s Service for Social Policies, SEF and four NGOs also contribute expert staff and services, while participating businesses receive advice on how to employ refugees. Refugees can integrate more easily, while the region can make full use of their skills.

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