Separatism: Making Europe stronger?
The 2014 edition of EUobserver's Regions & Cities magazine looks at separatist movements across Europe and its impact on the union.
The 2014 edition of EUobserver's Regions & Cities magazine looks at separatist movements across Europe and its impact on the union.
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With the beginning of the new period of the EU’s 2014-2020 budget implementation, numerous EU<br />
programmes are launched and public administrations at all levels of government will have to work<br />
together to ensure their efficient management. At the heart of EU funding, there will be some 400<br />
cohesion policy programmes worth EUR 351.8 billion, which aim at ensuring smart, sustainable and<br />
inclusive development in all regions and cities. The OPEN DAYS in Brussels bring officials at EU,<br />
national, regional and local level together in order to exchange experiences and new ideas and to<br />
make sure that public money is well spent.<br />
Join the largest event on regional and urban development:<br />
• 108 workshops, debates and various networking activities are structured around three<br />
thematic priorities: (1) connecting regional strategies, (2) building capacity and (3) territorial<br />
cooperation.<br />
• Some 600 speakers, amongst whom 80 elected representatives from all over <strong>Europe</strong> and all<br />
levels of government, experts, practitioners, representatives of business, banking and nongovernment<br />
organisations, as well as academics will debate with 6,000 participants from<br />
more than 50 countries about relevant issues for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth of<br />
<strong>Europe</strong>’s regions and cities, including the new rules of implementing future EU cohesion<br />
policy programmes.<br />
• The annual meeting place for practitioners in the field of regional policy, fostering exchange of<br />
know-how and good practice amongst experts, EU policy officers and management<br />
authorities.<br />
• Other initiatives in 2014 include a Master Class for 30 PhD students and associate<br />
professors, who will discuss future regional and urban research and the OPEN DAYS Cinema<br />
- a selection of video-clips, showcasing excellent projects funded by <strong>Europe</strong>an Structural and<br />
Investment Funds and good practices in regional and urban development from around<br />
<strong>Europe</strong>.<br />
• Between September and November, the OPEN DAYS come to your region/city with over 300<br />
local events.<br />
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