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Secretary of State calls for views on new £325 million European Union funding package
A consultation on how a new £325 million EU funding package for Northern Ireland should be spent has been launched by the Secretary of State, Peter Hain MP.
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Germany sets out research priorities for its EU Presidency
Germany has said it plans to use its Presidency of the EU to extend European cooperation in the fields of education and research.
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Committee of the Regions and European Commission looking for OPEN DAYS partners
The Committee of the Regions (CoR) and European Commission's Regional Policy Directorate General (DG REGIO) have issued an invitation to regions and cities to be partners in OPEN DAYS 2007 – European Week of Regions and Cities.
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Monitoring water quality in our Sea Loughs
Four new high-tech systems, to monitor continuously water quality in and around Loughs Foyle and Carlingford, are starting to provide greatly enhanced data for use by cross border bodies, thanks to funding of €270,000 by the European Union’s INTERREG IIIA Programme.
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Tapping into cross border water flows
Water and public health experts met at a conference funded by The European Union INTERREG IIIA last week to call for greater cross border collaboration in relation to the management of contamination incidents in drinking water supplies
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Valuable insights gained after working in Cuban Health System
Una Lynch, a lecturer at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast, had the experience of a lifetime, thanks to completing a form she had initially binned. Luckily, Una took a second look at the ‘Lecturers Into Industry’ leaflet and decided to apply for a work-based placement funded by the European Union’s PEACE II programme. Her choice of location? Cuba.
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European Parliament President meets PEACE Projects
During his visit to Ireland the President of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell MEP, took part in a roundtable discussion on the European Union and Peace and met projects that were addressing the legacy of the conflict in Northern Ireland and the border counties..
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‘Steering to Safety’ in the border region
This week saw the publication of a large scale cross border research study into Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) in the border region of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, part financed by the European Union.
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CHRISTMAS AT CREGGAN COUNTRY PARK
Despite a very busy schedule, Santa has officially confirmed that he will be making a special visit to Creggan Country Park this December. The park, part funded by the European Union through the Interegg IIIa initiative, Proteus and the Peace and Reconciliation programme, will be hosting various events over Christmas.
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Cross-border initiative delivers ‘Mental Health First Aid’ to young people
The findings from an evaluation of an innovative pilot project, Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), designed to help address the mental health problems of young people aged 16 to 25 in the border counties, were launched today in Armagh.
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Ireland's Tourism gets a New Theme
THEMED B&Bs – A REVOLUTIONARY NEW CROSS-BORDER CONCEPT TO REVITALISE THE IRISH B&B EXPERIENCE AND CAPTIVATE TOURISTS WORLD-WIDE.
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IMPACT OF PEACE II PROGRAMME FAR REACHING
PEACE II Celebrating Success Event highlights the impact of EU funding on the lives of people across Northern Ireland and the border counties
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Sweet Music to Sharon’s Ears
I thought I’d died and gone to heaven”...the words of an audience member leaving Carnegie Hall in New York in November 2005. He had not been in the presence of a great international orchestra, but at a 10th anniversary concert by the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland.
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Peace & Reconciliation in the Classromm
Education for Reconciliation (Phase II) is a curriculum development project, funded by the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and managed by the Curriculum Development Unit (CDU) of the City of Dublin VocationalEducation Committee.
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Supporting Minorities in the Border Region
With funding from the European Union’s Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, one project promoted by Cavan family Resource Centre is working to engage local representatives of the Protestant minority and of former political prisoners in discussions and activities targeted at peace building in the border region.
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Brussels bureaucrats to get work experience in SMEs.
Some senior European Commission officials will soon be abandoning their desks to spend a week in small and medium sized companies (SMEs) to learn about the sectors for which they make EU-wide laws.
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Warrenpoint Old Town Dock Restored
The restoration of the Warrenpoint Old Town dock area marked the culmination of a two-year major cross border construction project, which was part-funded through the European Union’s INTERREG IIIA Programme, with support funding from Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Department of Transport in the Republic and the Warrenpoint Harbour Authority.
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Kids’ Own explore linen
An exhibition of artwork produced by primary school children involved in a cross border creative project exploring the linen industry in Ireland will run in Dublin next February, complemented by a series of workshops with artists and teachers.
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New Shoots for the STEM Project
Funded by the European Union’s INTERREG IIIA programme, steered by the East Border Region Environmental Working Group and delivered by Southern Group Environmental Health Committee, the three-year STEM project assists cross border councils and businesses in implementing an effective environmental management system (EMS).
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“Towards the new European Neighbourhood”
The Network of Eastern External Border Regions (NEEBOR) holds its second annual conference in the Észak-Alföld Region, Hungary on the 15 November 2006.
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