Two rounds of consultations plus information events in each country: and in the end, the application package was modified according to the potential partners views. This was the direction taken by the Interreg NEXT Black Sea Basin programme authorities, while preparing documents for the first call of the NEXT cycle. It is also one of […]
Tag: Black Sea Basin
Konstantinos Papatheodorou
The recent devastating earthquake in Türkiye has questioned all of us: ‘how prepared are we to face natural disasters?’ The Greek, Turkish, Romanian and Moldovan partners of the REDACt project are working on enhancing the preparedness to earthquakes in the Black Sea Basin, targeting both competent authorities and citizens. We have talked to Konstantinos […]
The Eastern partners journey towards a greener neighbourhood and more
2022 has ended with the great news on the adoption of the seven active Interreg NEXT programmes. Now it’s time to get to know them better. Our journey starts by taking a closer look at two programmes of the Interreg NEXT family that can be fairly considered as “giants” of CBC in the east, one […]
Garabet Kazanjian
Can satellite images help save water ecosystems? Yes, they do. And the more people know about “reading” data, the higher the possibility to intervene and shield the environment. Especially young scientists and researchers. […]
The Road Show stops with the Neighborhood youth
Eyes on the youth! On 7 and 8 November the “Interreg Youth Road Show” headed to the Southeast Mediterranean, bringing around 30 representatives of the European Commission and the European Parliament to meet the youth of Thessaloniki and Serres (Greece). Four Interreg programmes took a chance to showcase their youth project in vocational training, employability, […]
Management skills are essential even for a family restaurant
“Tourism is not just about history, gloss and glamour: it is a service that companies provide. Many small enterprises manage their business not based on knowledge, but at the call of their hearts, which does not always have a positive impact on the quality of services provided by tourism companies.” George Stampoulis, Head of the […]
Laura Boicenco
The Black Sea is a mosaic of complex interacting ecosystems, rich in natural resources and providing a vital habitat for endangered species. But this treasure is also threatened by the concentration of intense human activities: fishery, contaminated rivers, poorly treated wastewaters, gas, and oil industry exploitations, and of course the recent perforations in the seabed… […]
E-commerce: Bringing Local Farmers Right to your Table
White brined cheese from Bulgaria, berries from the Republic of Moldova, Greek virgin olive oil, tomatoes from Romania, Turkish strawberries and honey from Ukraine. What do these products have in common? Are they the main ingredients to a crazy recipe? Not at all! These are all special traditional agricultural products grown by local farmers all […]
Flippers and diving masks to enjoy the underwater museum of the Black Sea
Vessels, buildings, statues, artefacts, sites, even human remains: this is all “underwater cultural heritage”, defined by UNESCO as human traces with cultural, historical or archaeological character, that have been under water for at least 100 years. Definitely, a heritage worth preserving and object of interest for the most curious minds. The ENI CBC TREASURE project […]
Fatih Konukcu
They are going “fishing for litter”: a small “army” of hundreds of fishermen, students, teachers and civil society organisations. They are collecting plastics around the Black Sea, to clean up square kilometres of beaches and water. And they are learning how a good solid waste management could reduce the pollution’s impact on our precious ecosystems. […]