More than 10.000 participants have visited this year’s European Week of Regions and Cities and took part in over 300 workshops, participatory labs and exhibitions. As part of the program, regional tastings were also organized, including the event where our Programme showcased local food products from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The European Week of Regions and Cities is an annual four-day event during which cities and regions showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement European Union Cohesion policy, and prove the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance. This year’s event headline was “Regions and Cities: Pillars of the EU’s Future”. The European Week of Regions and Cities 2019 was held from 7 October to 10 October 2019 and more than 10.000 visitors attended, which makes it the most visited edition from 2003.
Flickr photos by European Week of Regions and Cities: 8 October 2019, SQUARE, day 2: Welcome and atmosphere Belgium-Brussels-October 2019 © EU/UE (_WW12629, _WW12759, _WW12796, _WW13214), shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.
The Interreg IPA CBC Programme Croatia-Bosnia and Herzegovina-Montenegro 2014-2020 participated at this year’s edition as part of the Tasting of Regions and Cities program. Together with presenters from Mediterranean regions, we offered tastings of local and authentic food products from our Programme area, and regions of the Interreg IPA CBC Croatia-Serbia Programme as well. Our idea was to present the variety of cultural, geographic and gastronomic practices in our cross-border area. The tasting session was held at the Agora Village and it attracted several hundred visitors on day two of the European Week of Regions and Cities.
Flickr photos by European Week of Regions and Cities: 8 October 2019, 08EU743 – Regions’ evening with Mediterranean regions tasting, Belgium-Brussels-October 2019 © EU/UE (photos 1-4:_WW13868, _WW13877, _WW13873, _WW13904), shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license.
In addition to the Tasting of Regions and Cities, our Programme was presented by the safEarth project, which participated in a discussion titled Cities and regions: Leaders in addressing climate change, organized on the final day of the European Week of Regions and Cities. Mrs Marina Filipović, representative of safEarth, contributed by sharing experiences from the project’s mission to tackle the issue of landslide hazards in the cross-border region, in order to illustrate how cities and regions address climate change. Mrs Filipović was joined by representatives of cities of Tampere, Turku and Oslo and the ”Blue School Rainwater Garden for our future” project, funded by EEA&Norway Grants. Presentations from the discussion are available here.
