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Cast your vote! 🗳️ The public vote for the #REGIOSTARS 2024 is open until the 9 October 2024! The most voted project among all finalists will receive the Public Choice #Award! REGIOSTARS has become #Europe’s label of excellence for #EU-funded #projects that demonstrate the impact and inclusiveness of #regional development, since its inception in 2008. By putting forward solutions to common challenges and tapping into the biggest opportunities, REGIOSTARS has inspired regions to deliver ever more impactful EU #regional policy. The categories are: 1: A COMPETITIVE AND SMART EUROPE Promoting #competitiveness, #innovation and #economic resilience 2: A GREEN EUROPE The #green transition as the enabler of regional development 3: A CONNECTED EUROPE Enhancing #mobility and #connectivity between regions 4: A SOCIAL AND INCLUSIVE EUROPE Achieving a more #inclusive Europe by harnessing regional #talents 5: A EUROPE CLOSER TO THE CITIZENS Fostering the #sustainable development of all types of #territories Check out the finalists here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dJpGsD79

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The role of the Macro-Regional Strategies is seen positively in recommendations for the future of the #EUCohesionPolicy. The High-Level Group on the Future of Cohesion Policy has published its strategic conclusions and recommendations in a final report. A reformed Cohesion Policy should, according to the report, "focus on increasing the budget and enhancing coordination and concertation, including via macro-regional strategies or interregional cooperation to transfer good practice." Macro-regional Strategies help projects to link to wider stakeholder groups and offer the possibility to link to wider policy discussions. Macro-regional Strategies can help connect to partners and bring initiatives together extending the territorial impact for EU-funded projects. We are proud and happy of the acknowledgement of our work and look forward to even increased cooperation in the future! Ping fellow Strategies Danube Region Strategy, EUSAIR (w/support of Facility Point) & EUSALP

👩💼 👨💼 SBE is partner in the EU Horizon project MERGING, an international and interdisciplinary study of migrant integration through participatory and sustainable housing initiatives. SBE’s role was to design a social business operating model for housing initiatives for refugees. Pilot projects were implemented in 3 European cities: Valencia, Lyon and Gothenburg. We're thrilled to announce the official conclusion of this significant endeavour. On April 18, 2024, in Brussels, partners and stakeholders were reunited for the project Final Event🔖 entitled 'Housing as Drivers of Social Inclusion".                                                                                     At this pivotal gathering, our CEO Samantha Caccamo played the role of Moderator 🗣in the panel discussion on ➡'How to rethink housing for migrants, refugees, and newcomers in Europe, to ensure sustainable and proper integration.' The panel featured distinguished speakers and experts in integration and housing, including Sameera Chukkapalli Holmes, Founder of Needlab and Obama leader; Rudi Osman, Founder of the Union of Exiled Students and Obama leader; Adam L., Vice President of Refugees Union, Portugal; Pura Péris Garcia, Professor of Financial and Tax Law at the University of Valencia and Samantha Caccamo, CEO, Social Business Earth as moderator. The discussion was dynamic, sharing knowledge and shedding light on innovative approaches and the importance of collaborative efforts that promote diversity 🤝🏠.                          📣SBE is proud to have contributed to this insightful dialogue on migrant integration through participatory housing with high-level speakers and changemakers. You can view the panel discussion here https://lnkd.in/dVWeb8_s 💡 Learn more about this international and interdisciplinary study on the MERGING project website: https://lnkd.in/gbMUrNE #integration #socialinclusion #refugees #asylumseekers #housing #participatory #solutions #EU #MERGINGProject #MigrantIntegration #SustainableHousing #Horizon

✨ Exciting Developments in European Public Administration!👇 Yesterday, European Ministers responsible for public administration, public transformation, and civil service gathered in #Ghent, supported by the European Commission, as part of the @European Network for Public Administration (EUPAN) under the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. 📜 They endorsed the Ghent Declaration! 🖋️ This #monumental #strategicdocument focuses on the challenges and common actions for European Public Administrations and marks a significant step towards a modern and diverse public administration, benefiting nine million European civil servants 👉 It represents a milestone for civil servants and all Europeans, emphasising a #commitment to building a stronger, more inclusive government. The key areas of focus include: 1️⃣ #Collaboration: Strengthening ties both across borders and within governments. The emphasis is on sharing knowledge and relying on internal experts; 2️⃣ #mentalwellbeing of everyone working in the public sector: A commitment to ensuring a healthy and supportive environment for public servants. 3️⃣ Thematic areas such as: Evidence-informed #policymaking; #inclusion and #diversity; #ethicsandintegrity; #attractiveness of the civil service; 🤝 The Conclusion is inspiring: No one is left behind! 👉 By prioritizing the well-being of civil servants, governments are inherently taking care of society at large. 🔗 Read the Ghent Declaration: https://lnkd.in/dGc-BpTe 🎉 Congrats to #Montenegro, our host country and ReSPA’s key partner Ministry of Public Administration for signing the Ghent Declaration an important signpost guiding our future joint work! 🎯 Regional School of Public Administration team, while taking note of these challenges and actions, #celebrates this European milestone and continues working with amazing public administration teams towards a more robust, inclusive, and data-driven #European future for the governments of the #WesternBalkans! 🌍💙   #EU2024BE #EuropeanUnion #PublicAdministration #WesternBalkans #collaboration #inclusion

💡THIS WEEK... the Permanent Delegation of La Junta de Castilla y León to the EU will recap some of the work done in recent weeks where it has been present and participated in high-level events. Activities highlighted for the week include: 🚝The Atlantic Corridor is a vital component of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). Castilla y León remains committed to tracking its progress and implications as we deepen our involvement with influential initiatives shaping Europe's connectivity framework. #EuropeConnectingDays #EUTransportNetworks 📑The Demographic Change Regions Network (#DCRN) starts the drafting phase of the position paper on the future of Cohesion Policy. It will request Cohesion Policy to take into account the demographic transition and to give tools to face it with a territorial approach, for that Europeans have the “freedom to move, but also the freedom to stay” (Enrico Letta’s report on the Internal Market). 🗣️ European Parliamentary Research Service Event “What is the EU is doing to safeguard the mental health of its citizens”. On Thursday May 2, the EPRS organizes an event in the EP Info Hub venue to have a conversation with Virginia Mahieu, policy expert at the European Parliamentary Research Service, to learn more about what is the EU is doing to safeguard the mental health of its citizens. 🔗https://lnkd.in/gv8b-Rs6 🇪🇺 #EUOpenDoorsDay2024. On May 4, most of the European institutions (European Commission, European Parliament, European Economic and Social Committee, European Committee of the Regions, etc.), on the occasion of the celebration of #EuropeDay (May 9), open their doors to all those who are interested in learning more about their work. For more information, activities and events: 🔗https://lnkd.in/eSxWfWD2

💫 A look back at the Rencontres de la participation in Toulouse, with representatives of the Phoenix Horizon 2020 team!   🎲 Res publica and PHOENIX_H2020 representatives presented the challenges of participation and democracy through two serious games: 👉 The deliberation game, designed by Res publica, which allows the participants to discover how to build a participatory approach 👉 The collective ecosystem game, designed by Unifi, which fosters social learning about the relationship between environmental processes and territorial transformations   👥 A workshop on how to include voiceless people in the transition was also lead by Phoenix Project stakeholders:   🔹 Gyula Nagy spoke about the political situation in Hungary, highlighting the exclusion of people from political and policy discourses, a characteristic of a centralised country.   🔹 Carmen Bouley de Santiago presented the method used in the French national debate on the future of the sea that consisted in co-defining who the voiceless people are, together with those concerned; and the naming of ambassadors who organised actions in partnership with social centres.   🔹 Giovanni Allegretti told about involving local inhabitants in forest fire prevention in the cross-border area of Gata-Malcata between Portugal and Spain.   🔹 Sophie Guillain spoke about the overall lessons from Phoenix and the value of co-design commissions.   🙌 The workshop discussions helped explore: 🧐 Who are the voiceless people? 🤔 How can we define the priority groups to involve, based on a given context? 🔎 What obstacles need to be overcome for these groups to participate?   Caroline SCHLENKER from Grenoble-Alpes Métropole shared an interesting account of the participatory measures they implemented to include refugees. #RencontresDeLaParticipation #Toulouse #CollectiveIntelligence

Public consultation for citizens Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia Programme 2021-2027. As part of the preparation for the next Interreg Italy-Slovenia 2028-2034 programming, a public consultation questionnaire has been drawn up with the aim of collecting suggestions and contributions from citizens. The questionnaire is addressed to everyone within the Programme area and it will be possible to fill it in until 10 July 2024. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ddzZTM5G Interreg Italia Slovenija #EU #survey