They come from all over Europe: Poland, Germany, Cyprus and the Netherlands. They are 19, 22, 23, and 26 years old and grew up with Schengen. Olga writes, Sellina sticks her eye to the camera, Panos presents, Wijnand makes films. In September, these four “Euro trippers” found themselves around a great adventure. On board of […]
Month: October 2019
The Magnificent 7 at the conquest of the Council of Europe
On 29-31 October, the 7 programmes of the ENI CBC Northern Cluster will meet the Council of Europe (CoE), for a first-ever introduction of the ENI CBC family to this continent-leading human right organisation. There are 47 members in the Council, 28 of which are EU States: they all have signed up to the European […]
ENI CBC IN MOTION: October
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Neighbours celebrating cooperation
Cooking traditional dishes, planting trees, running a marathon, riding bicycles: these are only some of the activities which neighbours across the borders were happy to do together to celebrate the European Cooperation Day. This year 10 ENI CBC programmes prepared a dozen of local events which involved hundreds of citizens from both Member States, Partner […]
Could students be environment-ambassadors for life?
What about a symbolic “contract” signed by every trained student, engaging him to become a life-ambassador for the environment? This is one of the concrete proposals collected during the Participatory Lab “Citizens for greener cross-border regions along the EU’s external borders”, which took place on 10 October in Brussels during the European Week of Regions […]
Imatra crossing point: the multiplying effect of investments
New life for the Imatra border crossing: waiting time has been cut from two hours to half an hour, traffic accidents have decreased, and the amount of people detected for illegal activities has practically doubled. These are just some of the results obtained thanks to an EU funded cross-border cooperation programme between Finland and Russia, […]