Congrats to all #EUTeens4Green participants, a new generation of youth ambassadors for a inclusive & green transition!

Discover all about the projects involved for a #JustTransition with #CohesionPolicy support, in their final brochure:

🔹euteens4green.org/booklet/

✅ The positive impact of #CohesionPolicy
📺 Territories in action in a first-of-its kind TV show
🌆 3 webinars on the future of cities
and a lot more place-based knowledge in our Transforming Territories newsletter.

Browse the latest issue and subscribe! europa.eu/!cpMfn3

🇪🇺🇨🇾 Cyprus has benefited greatly from #CohesionPolicy funds since EU accession in 2004.

This funding has supported:

🔶the creation of some 5,000 new jobs
🔷1600+ enterprises

This is hard evidence that strategic funding brings tangible economic progress!

And there's more!
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This week, I was in Budapest to talk about the future of Cohesion Policy and how to improve its implementation. 🎓📝 We proposed many paths to make the #CohesionPolicy more effective

How can we strengthen the territorial dimension of #Cohesionpolicy and make our territories more relisient? ESPON director Wiktor Szydarowski is in CEPLI conference in Lucca with Vasco Alves Cordeiro and Nicola De Michelis
Also live cepli.eu/cepli-politica…

How much additional GDP will each 💶euro invested in 2014-27 🇪🇺 #CohesionPolicy generate by 2030?

Learn more about how #CohesionPolicy benefits EU economy and reduces regional gaps, and the EU_ScienceHub tools & analyses behind the latest Cohesion Report: europa.eu/!yxNjTG

#Cohesion Policy 's support to research & innovation has helped investments to R&D grow from 0,48% of GDP in 2014, to 0,80% in 2021!

Since 2014, #Cohesion support benefitted:

🧪87 firms cooperating with research institutions
👩‍🔬217 new researchers’ jobs

📣 Following the #CohesionReport & the conclusions of the High-Level Group on the future of cohesion, the #CoRplenary adopted the resolution on a renewed #CohesionPolicy in the next decade.

Join the efforts. Sign the call:
✒️ cor.europa.eu/cajointcall.t.…

#CohesionAlliance

Want to know more?

Check out 15.000+ projects supported by #CohesionPolicy in 🇳🇱

here👉europa.eu/!J8T3cP
&
here 👉europa.eu/!TyWkG3

#CohesionPolicy should not be reactive but transformative, with future-oriented investments sensitive to the unique strengths, challenges and needs of regions. 👉 in our latest blog post steadyhq.com/en/spatialfore…

'Much more than a market' - Report by Enrico Letta on the future of the EU #singlemarket ↓

Now with the key pages pointing that this might be a gamechanger for #CohesionPolicy , Procurement and State Aid around his novel concept of #freedomtostay

consilium.europa.eu/media/ny3j24sm…

We discussed the preparations of the upcoming #Hungarian #EU #Presidency and the future of #CohesionPolicy with Thomas Westphal, Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs - ECOFIN

Grazie Antonio Mazzeo per la calorosa ospitalità!

#CohesionPolicy is a key pillar of the European project and it’s also up to regions and cities to defend its future.

Thank you for your commitment to our common priorities in the European Committee of the Regions and beyond!

#CohesionPolicy support to 🇳🇱 businesses has helped them become more innovative and competitive.

Support focused on:

📌27,000+ enterprises since 2007
📌Cooperation between 514 enterprises with research institutions since 2014
📌4000+ companies in introducing new products

#CohesionPolicy supported the ΓεΣΥ new information system ensuring that all medical activities under the Cyprus General Health Care System are organised in a single, centralised IT System.

This improves the quality and efficiency of the health care system for all Cypriots!

Resilient & thriving urban areas are key to shaping so many aspects of our daily lives
As over 80% of all EU citizens are expected to live in cities by 2050
#CohesionPolicy is the main EU investment tool supporting cities, w/ more than €100 billion
Opening the #CyprusForumCities

#CohesionPolicy should not be reactive but transformative, with future-oriented investments sensitive to the unique strengths, challenges and needs of regions.

Read more in our new blogpost by Kai Böhme 👉 steadyhq.com/en/spatialfore…

#CohesionPolicy is contributing to the 🇪🇺 #GreenDeal in 🇨🇾 by supporting:

🔋 energy efficiency measures that are helping thousands of households & hundreds of enterprises to reduce their carbon footprint

🌊climate change adaptation measures to push back coastal erosion

#CohesionPolicy has also supported the innovative Smart Solar Charging project in Utrecht.

This is motivating people to change from privately-owned cars to an electric car-sharing scheme in which bi-directional batteries can either charge or deliver energy back to the grid.

#TechGrounds , supported by #CohesionPolicy , won the 2023 #RegioStars award!

The project contributes to:

🔵bring tech entrepreneurship & digital skills to underprivileged communities & neighbourhoods
🟠reduce the mismatch in the IT labour market
🟡narrow the digital divide