Cohesion policy is the European Union’s main tool for promoting economic growth and social welfare, by achieving a more homogeneous level of development across its territories and by particularly stimulating less developed and depressed regions. In 2021-2023, we have illustrated through the Work4Future project the challenges faced by South-Eastern European regions and the initiatives promoted thanks to cohesion funds. Building on this experience, we continue our engagement with the Energy4Future project that aims to explore and narrate the support that cohesion funds provide to counter energy crisis and energy poverty and by stimulating energy transition at the European level.
OBC Transeuropa contributes to the Energy4Future project together with Il Sole 24 Ore , ISSiRFA/CNR and PressOne .
REPORTAGE Ljubljana, cutting edge in biotechnological research
Ljubljana | Giovanni Vale | 1/7/2024A new Slovenian research centre is operational in the capital Ljubljana. It is the Biotechnology Hub of the National Institute of Biology (NIB), created thanks to European funds and inaugurated last February, which seeks to study and provide answers to the environmental challenges that await us
Slovenia, the new biotechnology hub of the National Institute of Biology
1/1/1970A new research centre has recently become operational in Ljubljana. It is the biotechnology hub of the National Institute of Biology (NIB), created thanks to European funds and inaugurated last February, which seeks to study and provide answers to the environmental challenges that await us. We talked about it here.
COHESION EU Funds to Support Water Management in Croatia
Massimo Guglietta | 26/6/2024Despite joining the European Union more than a decade ago, Croatia has struggled to meet European Union standards for environmental protection, especially in water and waste collection, management and treatment
COHESION Safe cycling in the cities of the Danube area
Paola Rosà | 24/6/2024From 2020 to 2022, nine countries participated in an Interreg project to improve the safety of those who use bicycles to get around in everyday life or for leisure. Two years of research to promote the use of bicycles while reducing the number of casualties
COHESION Romania has huge potential for green energy, but politicians don't know what to do with it
Laura Popa | 19/6/2024After years of Romania being a "paradise" for renewable energy investment, the government in Bucharest has managed to put itself in the ropes
TOURISM Ride&Bike between Slovenia and Croatia
Marco Ranocchiari | 18/6/2024Peaceful, picturesque and full of history, the hilly regions between Slovenia and Croatia have become a destination for sustainable, cross-border tourism. The transformation was driven by Ride&Bike, a European Cohesion policy project
Western Macedonia: many leave, some arrive
18/6/2024Western Macedonia is an inner region of Greece. It is located northwest of Thessaloniki and borders Albania and North Macedonia. It is a relatively little-known area of the country, visited by few tourists.
REPORTAGE Trieste-Rijeka, finally by train!
Nicole Corritore | 12/6/2024Since April, thanks to EU cohesion funds, the Trieste-Rijeka route has been open: a railway connection with symbolic value is back, decades after being interrupted at the end of the Second World War. We boarded the train on opening day
INTERVIEW Zagreb, development all-round
Zagreb | Giovanni Vale | 29/5/2024Waste management, post-earthquake reconstruction, urban services: there are various areas in which the administration of the Croatian capital, led by the progressive green coalition "Možemo" (We Can) since 2021, has intervened also thanks to European funds. We talked about it with Luka Korlaet, deputy mayor of Zagreb
COHESION POLICY For a transnational Danube, beyond Sissi and the Sachertorte
Paola Rosà | 16/5/2024Erhard Busek (1941-2022), an Austrian politician active in Balkan regional cooperation and lover of a Europe of minorities in dialogue, opened the work of the Interreg Transdanube Travel Stories project by talking about history, languages, landscapes and international protests: a synergistic approach, in search of a shared narrative
INTERVIEW Adriatic-Ionian region, is territorial cooperation still needed?
Giovanni Vale | 24/5/2024What developments do cohesion policies foresee? Is the Interreg programme, after over two decades, still valid? We asked Lodovico Gherardi, coordinator of the managing authority (the Emilia Romagna Region) of the Interreg IPA Adrion Programme
EU Cohesion datasets
OBC Transeuropa has produced 6 datasets in the frame of the Work4Future project to support its journalistic production.
The datasets refer to EU cohesion policy and funds, and can be consulted and downloaded from the following link
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