AEBR Balkans’s updates: a new project and an outlook on the region

31 March 2021

 

AEBR Balkans Centre updates on the latest activities: a new project with ESPON, the participation in the Europe of the Carpathians conference and the celebration of its 5th anniversary.

 

Territorial Scenarios for the Danube and Adriatic Ionian Macro-regions (TEVI 2050)

We are glad to announce that ESPON’s tenders Territorial Scenarios for the Danube and Adriatic Ionian Macro-regions (TEVI 2050) is granted to the consortium of territorial development stakeholders that AEBR is taking part in through the Balkan branch.

The consortium is led by Spatial Foresight (Luxembourg), a well know company who is at the frontline of current European research on territorial issues, in partnership with CDUT (Centrul pentru Dezvoltare Urbana si Teritoriala, Romania), IPoP (Institute for Spatial Policies, Slovenia), CESCI (Central European Services for Cross-Border Initiatives, Hungary), Co-PLAN (Instituti për Zhvillimin e Habitatit, Albania), and Prof. Franziska Sielker, Newton International Fellow at the Dpt. of Land Economy, University of Cambridge (UK).

The partners will produce trend analyses and territorial scenarios for the Danube (EUSDR) and Adriatic Ionian macro-regions (EUSAIR), looking in particular at the internal disparities and diversities between the territories of the member countries in each of these two macro-regions.

The outcomes will feed political discussions at national, regional, cross-border levels, with other EU macro-regions and in wider Europe.

 

Europe of the Carpathians Conference

AEBR Balkans participated in the panel “Three Seas – Development of Border Areas” at the Europe of the Carpathians Conference that took place online, February 27-28, 2021. The panel elaborated on:

• The current state and future challenges for the Carpathian Strategy;
• Key importance of the Three Seas areas for the development of border areas;
• Information and research for supporting the public and private sectors in the border areas;
• New quality of cross-border cooperation in the region; and
• The role of governments and parliaments in removing barriers for cross-border cooperation

The video of the whole Conference can be found here https://youtu.be/mojfUp163G4

 

Functional cross-border regions as engines of EU integration of the Western Balkans

AEBR’s office in the Balkans has celebrated its 5^th anniversary. To mark five years of activity in the Balkans, AEBR and CESCI organised a conference on 16 December 2020 with the title Functional cross-border regions as engines of EU integration of the Western Balkans.

More information ant recordings of the event are available here https://www.aebr.eu/celebrating-5-years-of-collaboration-between-aebr-and-cesci-in-the-balkans/

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