News and Events

01 September 2010

For  questions regarding the CADSES Programme, feel free to address directly the CADSES Managing Authority:

Managing Authority

CADSES III B Programme

Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti

Via Nomentana, 2

I – 00161 Rome

Tel:  +39 06 44 267134  

Email: cadses@mit.gov.it

19 December 2008

Starting today the INTERREG IIIB CADSES Joint Technical Secretariat is temporarily closed due to reorganisation.

Until a new organisational structure is set up the Managing Authority kindly requests to do not submit documents by any means of communication to the JTS in Dresden until 15th January 2009. The Managing Authority remains at your disposal for any further information.

 

 

01 December 2008

Lively discussions, interesting presentations and Venetian hospitality characterized the CADSES Closing Conference which took place on 24 and 25 November 2008 in the Cultural Centre “Don Orione Artigianelli” in Venice.

Nearly 200 participants showed that there is a great interest in the experience of transnational co-operation made within the CADSES Neighbourhood Programme and in the results achieved by the projects. In some cases discussions during the conference even helped to prepare the way for future territorial cooperation projects in different thematic fields.

After outlining the perspectives of territorial cooperation in Central and South-Eastern Europe the opening plenary
session summarized the achievements made within the entire CADSES period from its beginning in 1997 until now. National and regional points of view from Romania and from the Italian Emilia-Romagna Region were illustrated afterwards.

The workshop sessions dealt with central topics addressed by CADSES projects. They covered integrated spatial development strategies along the Danube and between the Baltic and Adriatic Seas, innovative information and communication tools, aspects regarding a sustainable urban development, flood risk and hazard monitoring methods as well as the protection of the environment and of natural and cultural heritage. Moreover, possible approaches how to utilize the presented project outputs for future territorial cooperation were discussed in the workshops. CADSES project partners and (potential) project partners within the new Territorial Cooperation Programmes had the possibility to exchange their experiences and ideas for the future.

The closing plenary session formed an arch by linking CADSES with the objectives and intentions of European Territorial Cooperation 2007-2013. Colin Wolfe from the DG Regional Policy pointed out that the CADSES programme and project actors could be proud of what has been achieved within ten years of transnational co-operation. These achievements should be utilized also for future project cooperations. For a better capitalisation of INTERREG project results the upcoming INTERACT knowledge management tool was presented. After that, both follow-up Programmes CENTRAL EUROPE and SOUTH EAST EUROPE illustrated the status quo of their work. They presented the new programme structures and gave useful information for project partners and project applicants.

Altogether the conference participants were provided with a broad overview of what CADSES has achieved and what are the challenges of territorial cooperation in the future.

The CADSES Managing Authority and the Joint Technical Secretariat would like to thank all participants who came to Venice and all those who contributed to the success of the conference. A special “thank you” goes to the Veneto Region which once more hosted a conference with Venetian hospitality  the conference participants enjoyed.

Now that the members of the CADSES family will go further on with managing and implementing projects and programmes in the new framework of European Territorial Cooperation we wish all actors the best for the interesting times and challenges to come.

The conference programme, a list of participants and the presentations are available below.

Conference Programme  

List of participants 
 

PRESENTATIONS

Opening Plenary Session, 24 November 2008
Aleksandra Gjoreska, South East European Cooperative Initiative:
Perpectives of Territorial Co-operation in Central and South-Eastern Europe

Walther Stöckl, City of Vienna:
CADSES - How it all began

Bernard Witkos, CADSES JTS:
CADSES achievements

Petruta Voicu, Romanian Ministry of Development, Public Works and Housing:
Romania's experience within the CADSES Programme  

Lodovico Gherardi, Emilia-Romagna Region:
The experience of the Emilia-Romagna Region with the CADSES Programme 

Workshop 1: Spatial development perspectives along transport corridors and waterways
Adriatic-Baltic Landbridge
Donauhanse
Donauregionen 

Workshop 2: Innovative information and communication instruments for more competitiveness and accessibility
EMBRACE II
Teleaccess
TELMI  

Workshop 3: Promoting environmental protection and resource management
TAQI
BETTER 
Educate!   

Workshop 4: Flood risk prevention and hazard monitoring methods
Oderregio 
MOSES
MONITOR 

Workshop 5: Inner-urban development: From revitalized brownfields, green living spaces and valorized historical structures
Greenkeys 
Hist.Urban
MISTER 

Workshop 6: Sustainable development of natural and cultural heritage
Carpathian Project
Heritage Alive! 
ROME 

Closing Plenary Session, 25 November 2008
Colin Wolfe, DG Regio:
Advancing European Territorial Co-operation - From CADSES towards 2013  

Mauro Novello, INTERACT Point Vienna:
Knowledge management and capitalisation of Territorial Cooperation Programmes 

Walther Stöckl, Managing Authority Central Europe Programme:
The CENTRAL EUROPE PROGRAMME - Cooperating for success 

Imre Csalagovits, Head of the JTS of the South East Europe Programme:
The SOUTH EAST EUROPE Transnational Cooperation Programme  

14 November 2008

The INTERREG IVC Informatin Point East in Katowice for INTERREG IVC Programme has a pleasue of inviting to the Lead Applicant Seminar which will be held in Katowice, Poland on 5 December 2008. In addition, on 4 and 5 December individual consultations will be provided to potential applicants and will be delivered by the Joint Technical Secretariat and IP East staff. The seminar and consultations will be held in English.  

The goal of the seminar is to encourage potential partners interested in interregional cooperation to participate in the programme as well as familiarization with basic information such as: priorities, application procedurees, budget and financing, project evaluation. All the interested in participation are kindly requested to submit a Registration Form available on the INTERREG IVC website www.interreg4c.eu in the section Application. 

Information Point East, Mickiewicza 15; 40-951 Katowice, Poland
Tel: +48 32 205 32 30 Fax: +48 32 205 32 31

21 August 2008

The project’s main aim was to develop information tools for visitors and residents of heritage sites in the CADSES area to communicate their cultural heritage potentials. The partners elaborated strategies how to better utilise these heritage potentials and how to promote regional identity through the use of new media as well as modern information and communication technologies. “The Heritage Alive! virtual tour guides and learning quests move beyond the mere presentation of information to users and provide them with the means to actively create knowledge themselves”, project coordinator John Pereira explained the potential of employing new media. The main focus was set on the dialogue between visitors/locals and the cultural heritage of each location.

The project partners published a range of scientific case studies for employing new media and technologies in the communication of cultural heritage. A experience report documents the implementation of a virtual tour guide in the three world heritage sites Salzburg (AT), Sighişoara (RO) and Hollókő (HU). Additionally a implementation plan for the learning quests in the cities of Gorlice (PL), Kardjali (BG) and Urbino (IT) was developed. To get an overview over the HERITAGE ALIVE! project and its entire publications please visit the project website www.heritagealive.eu.

Through an extensive dissemination of the project results in the participating regions via TV, radio and print media some of the pilot actions are on their way to be adapted as commercial products. Otherwise online learning quests of cities and their cultural heritage will be adopted at local schools.

06 August 2008

On 22-24 August 2008 the Final Event of the EDUCATE Project will take place in Ljubljana.
The partners of the EDUCATE! project developed a transnational postgraduate course cover-ing various aspects of water resource management. Universities from Greece, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia elaborated education schemes and training measures, for example in environmental science or water engineering. Thematic areas of the courses were topics like the use of integrative urban water management concepts, catchment and environmental management and geo-statistics as well as legislation and environmental assessment with emphasis on the WFD. The project established a learning platform on the Internet to provide the course con-tents across geographic areas and to a larger audience.
During the final event the students of the EDUCATE! postgraduate course are going to present their theses on water resource and environmental management produced for the end of the pilot year.
More information regarding the postgraduate course and the EDUCATE! project can be found on the course website at www.water-msc.org and the project website at www.e-educating.org.

29 July 2008

The third and final issue of the CADSES Results series has been printed and is now available.
The brochure highlights results of CADSES projects dealing with the use of IT in rural regions, landscape development, cultural and natural heritage protection, water management and the spatial impact of migration.
A special article is dedicated to the evaluation of empirical data of the CADSES projects comprised in the Programme’s database and in submitted Final Reports.

To order free printed copies of CADSES Results issues 1, 2 or 3 please contact the JTS in Dresden: cadses@jts.dresden.de.

28 July 2008
On 3-5 July 2008 the Final Conference of the CHIRON project took place in Agria, Magnesia, Greece. The project partners from touristic regions in Central and South-Eastern Europe look back on more than two years of fruitful collaboration.
The Network of European Cultural Tourism Agencies and Regions is one of the most important outputs of the project. It aims at maintaining the transnational cooperation in the field of cultural tourism in a long-term and strengthening the efforts of the regions using cultural heritage as an asset for regional development. The project partners signed the Declaration of Magnesia for the Development and Promotion of Cultural Tourism, through which they have confirmed their commitment for future concerted actions.

25 July 2008
The overall objective of the CADSES project HERMES was the usage of new media to promote and protect cultural heritage as factor of regional development. The project partners revaluated several heritage sites and supplied them with new media installations. For example, the Wieland Estate, located in Ossmannstedt near Weimar in Thuringia/DE, offers an educational centre for literary, philosophy and history equipped with modern media applications. Similarly the former Grand Hotel of Toblach in South Tyrol/IT has become a centre for culture, education and music productions. Also the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków/PL or the Museum of the Agronautic Expedition in Volos/GR, installed new multi-media technologies for the documentation and presentation of cultural heritage.
Furthermore, radio stations from six countries take part in the European Heritage Internet Radio Network (www.heritageradio.net) established by the project. The online-radio broadcasts primarily highlighted the work and results of INTERREG projects dealing with cultural heritage and promoted the dialogue between different European cultures.
Altogether the project has raised an intensive experience exchange and has developed ways to communicate cultural heritage over new media in Central and South-Eastern Europe.

18 June 2008
On June 26th, the final conference of the MIGRAVALUE project will take place in the Sala del Cenacolo in the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome. The conference will highlight the results of two intertwined components that MIGRAVALUE has been given attention to: the social dimension of migration, focusing on joint analyses and development of transnational welfare priorities and recommendations for policy planning; and the economic dimension, by focusing on strategies and tools for the channeling of remittances (among other instruments) for the development of origin areas and international cooperation between destination and origin countries.
Further information about MIGRAVALUE is available on the project website at http://www.migravalue.net