News and Events

14 November 2008

After six years of fruitful transnational cooperation the INTERREG III B CADSES Neighbourhood Programme comes to an end. During the programming period the partners of altogether 133 projects can look back on a number of achievements. On the CADSES Closing Conference in Venice on the 24 and 25 November 2008 some of these results will be presented. The aim of the event is to bundle the numerous CADSES experiences and to present outstanding project and programme results. The conference will be a platform for exchanging knowledge and to transfer the CADSES experiences to future projects within the new European Territorial Cooperation programmes.

Please use the following link to access the conference website where you can register and find further information
about the event and the venue: www.targetmotivation.it/cadses.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Venice!

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

28 May 2008

The ELISA (e-Learning for improving access to Information Society for SMEs in the SEE Area) project organizes its final
Conference in Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday, June 10th 2008.  

The conference will focus on the presentation of the results and outputs of the ELISA project. Additionally, representatives from all beneficiary countries will present the situation of digital economy for local SMEs currently, and e-learning experts will present aspects of the e-learning contribution to tomorrow’s learning scenarios. 
 
ELISA aims at improving the access to knowledge and the Information Society, of Small and Medium Enterprises
in South East Europe, namely the beneficiary countries of Albania, Bulgaria, FYR of Macedonia, and Serbia,
through close cooperation of academic and business communities at a transnational level.

ELISA targets the development of the South East European SMEs competitiveness & e-business practices in the information society era and the global digital economy, which heavily depends on the productive usage of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT). The penetration of ICT in this region is currently very limited, comparing to the EU average.
 
There is no attendance fee for the Conference. For further information on the conference, you may contact
the ELISA project manager Ilias Hatzakis, GRNET, hatzakis@grnet.gr.
 
More information about the ELISA project and partnership can be found on its official website: www.elisa-project.net.

23 May 2008

On 27 May 2008 the final project conference of the project MISTER will take in Rimini, Italy, where the project results, such as surveys and feasibility studies will be presented.

MISTER intends to design and test a new set of integrated actions embracing restructuring and renewal of the towns via a reuse of brown-fields (e.g. dismissed industrial areas & for-merly military sites) as an alternative of extensive urban growth. The reuse of brown-fields will be pursued through an innovative framework aimed at promoting a more transparent and responsible involvement of the private sector in projects of public interest.
This objective will be firstly achieved through a set of juridical-administrative-financial analy-sis and feasibility studies, which will then drive the development of a network focused on how to reuse brown-fields and the launch of a pilot phase, where the agreed strategy will be ap-plied in new plans to build facilities for new urban services, all designed via bio-architecture criteria. The underlying goal is finally to conceive and develop a transnational integrated and sustainable model of urban growth.
Further information on the project is also available on the project website http://www.mister-cadses.org