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3P4SSE

Reducing social disparities in a joint effort

Social and economic disparities remain evident in central Europe and negatively influence cohesion. Social exclusion and poverty also affect some regions more than others and this needs to change. To do so, the 3P4SSE project goes beyond state-of-the-art social innovation projects. The partners adopt a place-based clustering approach when addressing specific challenges of social and solidarity economies. Amongst others, they create a multilevel network scheme based ...

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Pexels Mikhail Nilov
BLUETWIN-CE

Creating healthier, happier and more connected rural communities

Peripheral and lagging areas often offer limited opportunities for healthy and active living due to shrinking public services and weak local governance, which in turn contribute to depopulation. BLUETWIN-CE aims to make rural communities more liveable and attractive by combining the Blue Zone approach with Digital Twin technology. Partners embed measures for active lifestyles, healthy diets and social interaction into local governance and test their potential impacts using Digital ...

BorderLabs CE

Testing new ways to bring border regions closer together

Thanks to EU integration, borders across countries have been softening - but public administration and policies still do not sufficiently address the needs of cross-border communities. The project BorderLabs CE will change this by improving public capacities for participatory cross-border cooperation. Partners from six countries jointly develop and pilot new governance models and solutions for integrated cross-border strategy development. They also investigate new approaches ...

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Pexels Mikhail Nilov
Brand4Talents

Making lagging regions more attractive for talents

Outmigration of young talents drains many lagging regions where jobs, services and image fall behind big cities. Brand4Talents aims to turn these into places where young people choose to stay or return to. Partners from four countries strengthen local governance for talent management, design and test action plans with better services, infrastructure and community engagement and launch place-branding campaigns. Together they co-develop a governance ...

Pexels Mikhail Nilov
Bridge2EastCE

Unlocking development potentials in cooperation

Eastern border regions in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania face demographic decline, weak governance and service gaps but also new opportunities from closer ties with Ukraine. Bridge2EastCE aims to help them plan this transition together. Partners create an interregional framework for territorial planning cooperation that synchronises policies across borders. They pilot it on migration and labour-market challenges and develop joint solutions and multi-level governance ...

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Cenia 2023
CE-Spaces4All

Making tourism accessible to all

Accessible tourism allows people with disabilities to travel independently. But there is still often a lack of awareness for their needs. The CE-Spaces4All project connects public authorities, the tourism sector and people with disabilities to improve governance for a more accessible tourism. The partners develop a digital tool for mapping barriers in rural regions and provide these with a joint strategy and local action ...

Pexels Mikhail Nilov
CE-VITA

Transforming healthcare access in peripheries

Peripheral regions face ageing populations, staff shortages and tight budgets that strain healthcare systems. CE-VITA aims to introduce a more efficient territorial care model, tested first on stroke rehabilitation. Patients continue therapy at home with digital support, reducing waiting lists and hospital pressure while keeping high-quality care. Health improvement hubs bring authorities, hospitals, NGOs and communities together to co-design and adapt the model and ...

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Rostyslav Savchyn Unsplash
Central Mountains

Improving cooperation among mountainous regions

The Alps and Carpathians are important natural corridors that connect many central European countries. Unfortunately, cooperation across borders often lacks a joint vision in mountain areas. To change this, the Central Mountains project designs and implements a joint strategy and regional action plans to create amongst others cross-border functional areas. By improving governance structures, processes and operations, the partners sustainably improve cooperation among Alpine-Carpathian regions.

Older woman showing a book to a child
Pexels Mikhail Nilov
COOPACTION

Creating a shared future for young and old

Peripheral regions must respond at the same time to rising care needs of elderly people and scarce opportunities for youth, but policies are often fragmented. COOPACTION aims to co-create inclusive solutions for both groups. Partners connect policymakers, social enterprises and communities in a bottom-up, multi-level governance process, test three pilot actions in elderly care and youth work and use an artificial intelligence-based participation platform ...

EnCLOD

Helping public authorities to make better use of data

Data is the raw material for territorial governance in our digital age, but public authorities often lack capacities to utilise data effectively. At the same time, the vast expertise of civil society and the private sector on technological issues remains untapped for solving urban issues. The EnCLOD project bridges this gap by fostering collaboration between local authorities, civily society, and the private sector in ...

Young woman looking at her mobile phone
Pexels Mikhail Nilov
ENRICH-US

Empowering communities to steer sustainable tourism growth

Cultural heritage and natural landscapes in peripheral regions are often underused because tourism governance is fragmented, and local voices are weak. ENRICH-US aims to empower communities to steer sustainable tourism growth. Partners test governance models such as destination management organisations, community cooperatives and public-private-community partnerships, backed by digital tools, cultural content platforms and small eco-tourism pilots. Together they develop participatory, replicable frameworks.

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Jonny Gios Unsplash
GEtCoheSive

Engaging citizens to improve policies

Citizens across central Europe increasingly want to get more involved in local and regional policy-making. The GEtCoheSive project develops and tests inclusive governance practices to improve public authorities’ capacities to engage with citizens from vulnerable backgrounds, especially in view of environmental policies and access to care services. The partnership develops a transnational strategy and local action plans for four cities to make their societies ...

GINEVRA

Introducing transformative innovations safely

Technological innovations are transforming cities with a huge potential for improving people’s lives. But they need to be deployed responsibly. The GINEVRA project helps cities to effectively govern transformative innovations, such as autonomous vehicles. The partners jointly develop governance guidelines and new citizen engagement tools and test them in specific pilot actions. They also design a transnational strategy for responsibly governing the introduction of ...

Woman on the bus stop in the rural area
Amel Majanovic Unsplash
GO4FAIR MOVE

Making mobility a right in lagging regions

In many lagging regions, workers depend on private cars because public and employer-based transport offers are fragmented and poorly coordinated, creating mobility poverty. GO4FAiR MOVE aims to make “mobility as a right” a reality. Partners build multi-level governance models linking municipalities, regions, operators and employers, use participatory data mapping and inclusive planning to design and test new cooperation schemes and produce replicable frameworks that ...

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Scott Greer Unsplash
GOV4PeaCE

Building on past heritage for future development

Central Europe has a vast cultural heritage related to World War I with significant potential to accelerate socio-economic development in rural areas. However, the joint management of this heritage remains challenging as it is dispersed across various countries and lacks a cohesive strategy for preservation and utilisation. The GOV4PeaCE project establishes a joint vision for managing the war-related cultural heritage across borders and sectors. ...

City of Warsaw
By Warsaw partners
MECOG-CE

Strengthening metropolitan governance

Urban and rural regions are growing closer together across central Europe. As a result, the focus of spatial planning moved up to the level of metropolitan regions, which include commuter belts around cities. But cooperation between a city and its hinterland often remains challenging. The MECOG-CE project overcomes this by connecting eight metropolitan regions in central Europe that identify, test and share good governance tools.

Pexels Karola G
SOSPHERE

Improving access to health and social services

Residents in peripheral areas often feel isolated and insecure because health and social services are fragmented, hard to access digitally and poorly known. SOSPHERE aims to make support easier to reach and to trust in. Partners co-design one-stop-shops that bring providers together, improve coordination and give citizens a stronger voice, and develop strategies and guidelines to boost digital health literacy. Successful models can then ...