Panorama Magazine | Number 67 (Winter 2018)

Success stories across our regions and borders

Summary:

This issue opens with a report from the Austrian presidency on how their team has prepared negotiations in the Council on the legislative package 2021-2027.  The interview is a joint talk with both Minister-president Malu Dreyer and Economics Minister Dr Volker Wissing from the Rhineland-Palatinate. The issue also explores what EU funds have done for the European Year of Cultural Heritage, how they are helping regions undergoing industrial transition, and profile some of the projects supported through the Urban Innovative Actions programme.

The In Your Own Words section hears from Castilla-La-Mancha, Finland and South Poland, and  also from younger people via their experiences with the Interreg Volunteer Youth programme, and the Youth4Regions media programme. A talk with this year’s Regiostars winners, look ingback at some images from this year’s European Week of Regions and Cities, and featuring some highlights from the recently published Eurostat 2018 Regional yearbook. The projects section visits Poland, Denmark, Slovakia, Italy and Greece.

Contents:

• Austrian Presidency: getting the job done
• Concrete commitment to the outermost regions
• Urban Innovative Actions: testing innovative solutions and measuring results
• Interview: Malu Dreyer and Volker Wissing from Rhineland-Palatinate
• Support for coal regions in transition to sustainable economies
• Cohension policy support for mountains, islands and sparsely populated areas
• Captured on camera: European Week of Regions and Cities 2018
• EWRC master class: when cohesion policy-makers meet young researchers
• Regiostars 2018 winners
• Youth4Regions: young journalists have their say
• Interreg Volunteer Youth: its achievements and future plans
• EUSALP 'pitch your project for the EU' contest
• Maps: a novel monitoring tool to measure gender equality in European regions
• European territorial cooperation for culture heritage
• Cohesion policy is vital for Poland’s regions
• Finnish municipalities and regions reflect on cohesion policy
• Castilla-La Mancha considers the proposed cohesion policy reform
• Interreg Europe CYBER project: creating synergies among Europe's cybersecurity valleys
• How is your region doing statistically?
• Fighting fraud and corruption in EU-funded projects: lessons and examples from the Member States
• Data point: Financial instruments to support cohesion policy objectives
• Saving the Danube sturgeon: the ICPDR sturgeon strategy
• Projects: Denmark, Italy/Greece, Slovakia and Poland

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