Shane Woodford was enjoying a fulfilling life as a radio journalist in Canada when climate disasters hit the area where he lived. In the end, he and his family chose to relocate to Denmark. I […]
Meet Shane Woodford: a storyteller at heart
Tag: Interreg
We have a new team member – welcome Femke!
A very warm welcome to our newest team member and now second Dutch colleague, Femke Boersma. Femke joined the Joint Secretariat at the beginning of October. Despite only having spent a week in the office as […]
Antwerp and Bremen win awards at annual CIVITAS event
North Sea Region Programme projects and cities highlighted at CIVITAS Forum The North Sea Region Programme participated in this year’s CIVITAS Forum in Graz, Austria to promote ART-Forum, BITS, SEEV4-City, and SURFLOGH. A joint effort […]
Creating tailwind for wind-assisted shipping
The North Sea Region Programme supports innovation that reduces the heavy CO2 footprint of sea carriers. An example is the SAIL project (2012-2015) that helped kick-start wind-assisted shipping propulsion (WASP), a low-carbon freight solution which is now […]
Interreg – a key European actor in tackling climate change
At a recent meeting on climate change, DG Climate Action policy officer Dina Silina highlighted the role of Interreg in the combined European efforts to tackle climate change. On 31 May – 1 June, I […]
Spotlight on Priority 3: interview with Axel Kristiansen and Jenny Thomsen
The North Sea Region Programme is strongly committed to projects that improve resilience to the effects of climate change and support long-term sustainable management of the environment. These projects can be found in Priority 3, […]
Why apply to Interreg with your transport project? TEN-T Days reveals some answers…
TEN-T Days is the annual event for EU and member state transport ministers, officials, experts, and anyone else working on increasing transport connections within the European Union. Corridors, railways, maritime sector, urban nodes, hydrogen fuel, […]
Transnational projects set the stage for green mobility
Three interlinked projects are paving the way to upscaling green mobility in the North Sea Region. This story shows that transnational cooperation is essential in proving a powerful case for clean energy and mobility. […]
EU at eye level with students in Viborg
Is Europe in Viborg – or is Viborg in Europe? A good question from students at the Viborg International School at the European Cooperation Day as five local EU programme staff visited to introduce European […]
“Interreg is like ERASMUS – for organisations”
Every once in a while, you hear that one sentence that says it all. It happened to me at the North Sea Conference this year in Göttingen, when Christof Petry presented findings from his master’s […]