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August 22, 2019

by Stevie Swenne

BE-GOOD is a pioneering project aiming to unlock, re-use and extract value from Public Sector Information (PSI) to develop data driven services in the area of infrastructure and environment. BE-GOOD will deliver 10 pilots to extract commercial value from PSI. This is estimated at € 50 million and will also contribute to delivering 15% to 20% reduction of cost that big data is expected to enable. The project uses a novel demand driven approach, starting with public service delivery challenges across North West Europe. […]
August 22, 2019

Summers are heating up: Will water scarcity become the new normal?

by Stevie Swenne

The dry summer of 2018 was a forewarning of what lies ahead. Using advanced technology, the North Sea Region project TOPSOIL investigates how water in the uppermost soil layers responds to climate change. This helps identify risks and opportunities to prevent water scarcity, salt intrusion, or flooding in the future. In this article, Stevie Swenne of TOPSOIL presents some of the challenges that the North Sea Region is facing and how the project addresses them. […]
August 22, 2019

by Matteo Ruocco

The project LIFE ESC360 gives the opportunity to 360 volunteers, aged between 18 and 30, to actively contribute to nature conservation, by the monitoring of protected species in 22 Italian Natura 2000 sites. […]
August 22, 2019

by Matteo Ruocco

The project LIFE ESC360 gives the opportunity to 360 volunteers, aged between 18 and 30, to actively contribute to nature conservation, by the monitoring of protected species in 22 Italian Natura 2000 sites. […]
August 22, 2019

by Ulla-Britt Krämer

How do we renovate 22 million houses before 2050? […]
August 22, 2019

HOPES-MADAD Project Experience (November 2018-June 2019)

by Elçin Istif-Inci

The UDISES Project all started with numbers. Very small numbers… Before hearing the number of enrolled Syrian students with disabilities at Istanbul University, we were unaware of the fact they were sharing the same academia with us. […]
August 22, 2019

People – Stories – Central Europe

by Anna Sirocco

Transnational cooperation is central for our projects. It is their joint efforts that results in benefits that bring better quality of life to the regions cities, and ultimately citizens. But what does it really mean? Discover cooperation stories in the heart of Europe. […]
August 22, 2019

by Alicja Wolanin

Story about the Chopin Museum in Warsaw, Poland. […]
August 22, 2019

The End: The last trip to the dyke.

by Noel Glez

Eight months, almost pregnancy time. Eight months was the time this adventure was on. Thirty three posts in this blog. Thirty three weeks. Thirty three thousand things I haven’t tell you. I want to say this is the end and I feel very sad. Leaving my family in the Netherlands wasn’t easy at all and all of them know that I will miss them. I know that bad things that happened during this time would be watched differently after some time. I know I learnt. […]