The Workshop »PROGETTO DIVA: le pilot actions sul territorio Veneto« on June 23 had SMEs and CCIs as protagonists who, together with the Creative Hub Veneto, completed (with great success) seven pilot projects in the Veneto area. Led by the journalist and writer Maurizio Crema, the project teams told their stories and shared with the audience, albeit online, the remarkable results achieved, which opened the doors to future collaboration prospects. During the meeting, the new content of the Creative Hub Veneto website was also presented, now enriched with interviews with representatives of pilot projects, mapping results and the selection of tools from the DIVA toolkit.

On 31st May 2022, the Slovenian partners of the DIVA project gathered at the workshop "Transfer of knowledge and experience between SLO HUB units", hosted by the Technology Park Ljubljana. The participants exchanged experiences regarding the operation of HUBs and cooperation with DIVA pilot projects and prepared for the 2nd workshop, which will be held on 10th June in the Technology Park PTP on "Dissemination of knowledge and skills formed within the DIVA project."

European challenges and opportunities for cultural and creative businesses: this is the focus of the event promoted by the European DIVA project to be held on May 20 at the Querini Stampalia Foundation, Venice starting at 9 a.m.

The guest speakers of the Project will talk about European networks promoting the cultural and creative sector, ongoing European experiences and new development opportunities. The DIVA project partners will present the results of three years of work conducted in over 20 pilot interventions funded in the cross-border area.

An in-person and online event, working languages Italian/ Slovenian/ English with simultaneous translation. Registration required https://bit.ly/3LsNZ0Y

Informest offices will be closed from 24th December 2021 to 7th January 2022.

On Wednesday, December 1, we held the crossborder "Launch and networking event", attended by representatives of DIVA pilot projects. A welcome speech by Valeria Bazzan (CCIAA Venezia Rovigo) and an introduction speech by moderator Corrado Campobasso (Informest), was followed by a Mario Ciaramitaro (IUAV), Peter Purg (UNG) and Mija Lorbek (DIVA HUB Unit - Ekscenter) inspiring speeches on the introduction of Design thinking and Art thinking into research and innovation processes.

The fifth and penultimate S3UNICA Exchange of Experience will take place next Wednesday, 21st October from 12.00 to 14.30 and it will host different experts in the fild from Regional agencies and universities. The event will be organized and realized by the project partner "Alba Local Energy Agency” and it will be focused on the support to the local authorities in implementing the low carbon emissions strategies.

On Monday 18th October in Venice during the “Diva creative hub pitching event” Veneto HUB representatives met for the first time the Veneto representatives of the SME-CCI collaboration pilot projects selected with the DIVA Open Call! 

The reporting and presentation rules have been presented. For more info, visit the Veneto Creative Hub website: https://www.creativehubveneto.eu/2021/10/04/progetto-diva-lin Tecnologia-che-nasce-dalla-cultura/

On Wednesday, October 6, DIVA project partners from Friuli Venezia Giulia organized an online event at which 7 pilot projects from FVG were presented.

Following a welcoming address by Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia, the representatives of DIVA Hub FVG illustrated the support offered by the same hub. After that, each project team introduced themselves and their project ideas. The event was, therefore, first of all, an opportunity for DIVA Hub FVG’s staff and the project teams to meet each other. In addition, DIVA Hub FVG’s staff gained a deeper understanding of project ideas, and this laid the basis to better define the next steps of DIVA Hub FVG’s activities.

RESPONSe 10th Technical meeting is currently taking place in Trieste: the Italian and Croatian partners of the Interreg Italy-Croatia project met together and in person after almost two years of on-line relationship. The meeting is preparatory to the final conference, that will be held at the end of November, and to the latest revisions of the documents that are the basis of SECAPs in the six pilot areas.

On September 14th, the Slovenian partners of the DIVA project carried out the "DIVA pitch" event, which had the aim of presenting selected pilot projects that come from the Slovenian area. The event took place in Ljubljana at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Representatives of six pilot projects briefly presented their project ideas, and representatives of Slovenian DIVA HUB presented in more detail the support services they offer. 

Last 23rd February the Final Conference “Culture and creativity: opportunities, future challenges and development scenarios” took place online. The event was organized and realized by Basilicata Region and saw the participation of different personalities and authorities of the Basilicata Region, the Interreg Europe Programme and the members of CRE:HUB partnership. They presented the goals and results of CRE:HUB project for cultural and creative industries, the policies for the development of the cultural systems and different European good practices and case studies.
The event recording is here available

The final conference of the Interreg Europe CRE: HUB Project will be held online next Tuesday 23th February from 09.30 to 13.30. It will be the opportunity to discover the results achieved in all the involved territories and the present and future support activities dedicated to cultural and creative enterprises.
Attendees will also have the possibility to learn about many different European good practices and case study, dedicate to the improvement of policies in the cultural and creative sector.

Here the link to register.

The Andalusian Energy Agency and the University of Malaga are pleased to invite you to the second S3UNICA Exchange of Experience that will be hold on ZOOM on Wednesday, 27th from 9:30 to 12:00 (C.E.T.): we will have the possibility to discover more about the Best Practices in the Andalusian Region among direct evidence of different realities.

To follow the event, click on the link bit.ly/EEinSpainS3UNICA. It is recommended to connect at 9:00, since the system needs some time for approval.

The first meeting for 2021 of the project Interreg Italy-Croatia RESPONSe opened yesterday with good news: the municipality of Montemarciano, a pilot area in Marche region, also joined the Covenant of Mayors for Climate&Energy last December. Along with Lignano Sabbiadoro, two of six RESPONSe pilot areas officially join the European initiative that commits participants to implement concrete actions for adaptation to the climate change.
The intensive work, done by the partners in the recent months to collect the data necessary for the vulnerability and risk assessment plans, will feed into six documents. On the basis of these documents, the partners will elaborate six SECAPs (Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan), one for each pilot area.  In addition to Montemarciano, there are also Lignano Sabbiadoro and Brindisi on the Italian front and Cres, Šibenik and the Neretva estuary on the Croatian side.

During the SMATH final Conference, organised by Veneto Region and held online last 10th – 11th December, two videos prepared by our partner “TVT Innovation - Toulon Provence Méditerranée Metropolitan Economic Development Agency” were shown for the first time in public.

Videos are available at these following links:
- bit.ly/SMATHvideofinale
- bit.ly/SMATHstorytelling

Enjoy the videos!

On the 4th of December 2020, the CREATURES project represented by the Lead Partner, the Metropolitan City of Bologna, has joined the thematic Cluster “Towards sustainability in cultural and natural tourism destinations” composed by the relevant projects financed by the ADRION programme. 

CREATURES project is excited to join the cluster and contribute to its valuable goals!

Last 29th November, a special digital study visit entitled “Culture and business: study visit of the CROSSINNO EU-funded project” was held, organised within the CROSSINNO project funded by the Interreg Italy-Austria. Four different case studies of enterprises that were able to combine traditional manufacturing with creativity were presented during the event: Bonotto, Lavanderia Adriatica, 3MC and Amorim Cork Italia.

Materials are available here.

Despite the difficulties caused by COVID-19 pandemic, S3UNICA partnership was able to pursue its objectives and recorded the Exchange of Experience in Finland.
Now the video of that experience is available on YouTube! 

The second Newsletter has just been published on the RESPONSe website. The main focus are the abstract of the scientific speeches, presented during the mid-term conference, held last October 20th, and the analyzes and simulations emerging from the  meteorological and oceanographic data, collected in the period 1961-2018. The analyzes and simulations are the basis on which the next project documents will be developed in the current months: the measures to be adopted for an effective adaptation to climate change and the drafting of SECAP (Action Plan for Sustainable Energy and Clima) for each of the six pilot areas of the project.

Enjoy the reading!

The Study Visit will be held on Sunday 29th November 2020 from 2.30 to 4 p.m, organized in the frame of OPEN FACTORY event, the most important opening of industrial and manufacturing culture in Italy, which will take place online.

The program includes a session dedicated only to the project partners and their stakeholders, with the aim to let you have the opportunities to discover four testimonies of different approaches to the theme of cooperation enterprise-culture, able to offer interesting scenarios and perspectives for listeners.

After this panel, it has been scheduled a plenary session, open to the public, for the conclusion with the participation of Antonio Calabrò, director Fondazione Pirelli, deputy chairman Assolombarda, chairman Museimpresa.

Here available to participate.

The mid-term conference of RESPONSe project, dedicated to the climate change issues and the adoption of smart strategies by the Adriatic coastal municipalities, took place yesterday, 21st October, online.

Two workshops for the tourism sector organized by Vegal (the Development Agency for Eastern Veneto) as part of WP 3.2.2 PRIMIS project will take place on 22 and 23 October.

Here the link for the registration.
The participation is free.

Event programmi is attached.

A conference to analyse climate change in Friuli Venezia Giulia territories.

On Friday 6th November 2020, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Interreg MED Programme, together with the Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (ANCT) will held a conference on the future of European territorial cooperation in order to better coordinate and strengthen the governance actions in the Mediterranean, to which Interreg MED has been committed to create a "PANORAMED" governance platform directly involving the Programme participating States, in addition to the thematic projects since 2014. PANORAMED benefits from  the different projects of the Programme to better capitalise and coordinate the actions of local authorities, States and of the European Union. 

The final conference of Ca.Re project will be held online on Friday 25 September, from 9.30 to 13.00. It will be dedicated to "The Case&Care approach for the management of services for elderly people: potential and development in the light of COVID-19". The project partners and Italian and Austrian experts will discuss the results of the pilot actions carried out in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto and Tyrol and on the potential offered by the Case & Care method to our social and health systems and to increasingly aging society.

 You could find the agenda as attachment and here the d REGISTRATION link.

Last meeting tomorrow, Friday 3 July, of the cycle of the online seminars dedicated to deepening the role of Creative and Cultural Enterprises - ICC at European level and the possible collaboration between culture and traditional business.

Mr. Pier Luigi Sacco will speak about "The new European agenda for culture: cultural crossovers". 

The seminars, organized by the Central Directorate for Culture and Sport of Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region, in the framework of SMATH project, have aroused great interest and participation from the regional stakeholders. 

Second appointment tomorrow, June 24, of the cycle of online seminars dedicated to deepening the role of Creative and Cultural Enterprises - ICC at European level and the forms of collaboration between culture and traditional business. Tomorrow we will talk about "Culture as a pre-innovation platform".

Until 26th June the EU Sustainable Energy Week will take place under the theme ‘Beyond the crisis: clean energy for green recovery and growth’. Due to COVID-19 restriction, the event is going completely digital!

The 2020 edition of 'Europe, let's cooperate! interregional cooperation forum' takes place online
on 9 June 2020 (10-11:30 CEST).

In this period of uncertainty and crisis, cooperation is needed more than ever. We in Interreg Europe help regions work together, exchange experiences and find solutions to their challenges. This way Interreg Europe contributes to territorial cohesion and sustainable growth in many European regions.

Changing the approach for the involvement of local authorities without changing the final objective: this was the spirit of the online meeting had yesterday between the partners of the RESPONSE project, financed by the Italy Croatia Program under the specific objective dedicated to climate change

The kreaDIVA! event was held on Friday 28/02/2020 at the Creativity Centre, managed by the Museum of Architecture and Design, with the aim of presenting the project and some of it’s already achieved results.

The event was attended by approx. 50 representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and cultural and creative industries (CCI). Project partners presented the latest activities and results of the project. The Italian partners presented the collaboration model between the traditional business sector and the creative industries, developed by the DIVA consortium, through an online connection - for "precautionary health reasons". 

S3UNICA, Interreg Europe project: finally online the Kick Off Meeting video! 

Curious to know about the project and our Kick Off Meeting? Watch our video ->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9hIC517xMU

After siix months of work and commitment, the first semester for S3UNICA closed on past 31st January. Now, it's time to summarise and to know better our partners and their main stakeholders!

Our first #newsletter is onlineLet's chek this on our website-> 
https://interregeurope.eu/s3unica/library/#folder=2213

S3UNICA Smart SpecialiSation UNIversity Campus first Regional Stakeholder Meeting in Friuli Venezia Giulia Region took place in Trieste on 30th January.

On Thursday 16th January was held in Slovenia, at the premises of the Italian Community of Isola, in Palazzo Manzioli, the 3rd Steering Committee of the project PRIMIS - MULTICULTURAL TRAVEL BETWEEN ITALY AND SLOVENIA AT THE PRISM OF MINORANCES, a project co-financed by the EU Interreg Italy-Slovenia 2014-2020 programme.

On January 14 and 15, in the city of Kaštela (Croatia), it will be held the second meeting of the UnderwaterMuse project.

The seminar "Fundraising and opportunities for creative and cultural organizations" organized in the framework of DIVA project, will be held on 21st November 9.30 a.m at Friuli Innovazione headquarters in Udine. During the meeting will be presented cooperation opportunities between CCIs and traditional SMEs, moreover Mrs Martinoni, founder of Terzofilo and teacher at The FundRaising School, will illustrate tools and technics to do fundraising for creative and cultural operators and organizations. 

The seminar is free, click here to register.

The International Conference on culture and creativity policies, the final event of Interreg MED project, ChIMERA, is opening tomorrow in Trieste at Congress Centre of Molo IV – Trieste Terminal Passeggeri.
The final event of ChIMERA, in which the General Directorate for Culture and Sports of Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region participated as lead partner, with the operative support of Informest, 

On 23rd September at the Multimedia Hall Tessitori of Piazza Oberdan in Trieste, will take place the first of the five days (September 23-27) of the Advanced Training “Sea governance and blue growth: balancing sustainable use and conservation through Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) in the field of fisheries and aquaculture ”, within the Deep Blue Project

On 17th September at the headquarters of the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS) of Trieste took place the Autumn Session of the Master in Blue Sustainable Growth "Blue Growth" organized by the OGS and the University of Trieste.

Friday, the 20th of September, in Trieste - at the Hotel Continentale, San Nicolò Hall, 1st floor (Via Dante 6 / A), starting from 09.45 am - Informest organizes the Infoday dedicated to schools across the region to share experiences, results and guidelines of one of the most important and innovative FVG school mobility programs in recent years, the BLUE KEP project, dedicated to training in the "sea supply chain".

Next 26 and 27 September Trieste hosts the International Conference on culture and creativity policies, final event of Interreg MED project, ChIMERA, in which Informest has supported the lead partner, the General Directorate for Culture and Sport of Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region.

The second meeting of the RESPONSe project  was held on July 10 in Zagreb, Croatia. Informest participates in the project, which kicked off in January, as Lead Partner. In the past months the project partners have been focusing on the collection of atmospheric and oceanographic data in their areas, in order to fully understand how temperatures and rainfalls are changing, what the trends in the past 30 years have been and what we can expect in the future. The meeting held in Zagreb, hosted by the Hrvoje Požar Energy Institute, was the opportunity to analyse the first collected data and to take stock of the missing ones. Furthermore project partners discussed the way local authorities will be able to use the data in order to programme in the best possible way planning measures in their territories.

It was held last 25th July in Mtskheta (Georgia), at National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia - Sakpatenti, second meeting of the Twinning project coordinated by Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food, Forestry and Tourism Policies (MiPAAFT) - Department of the Central Inspectorate for Quality Safeguarding and Anti-frauds of Foodstuffs and Agricultural Products (ICQRF), with support of Informest for financial and administrative management.

The next meeting of the CRE:HUB project partners will take place on 25 and 26 July 2019 in Székesfehérvár and it is organized by Central Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency.

The first day will start with a partner meeting to discuss about the improvement of actions plans in each region involved and future commitments of the CRE:HUB Project.

The lead partner of the DIVA project, Camera di Commercio Venezia Rovigo, in cooperation with Regione del Veneto, organized the Launch event of the project in Mestre on 9 July. Participants of the event were acquainted with various programs and projects through which each region promotes and supports the development of creative industries. Eight companies and organizations from Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, and Slovenia, active in the field of creative industries and contemporary investigative arts, presented their experiences and activities.

The first workshop of the project DIVA in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia took place at Area Science Park’s headquarters in Trieste on 28 June 2019. The event was organised by Area Science Park, in cooperation with Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia, Informest and Friuli Innovazione.

The workshop gathered around 90 participants, including representatives of traditional companies as well as enterprises, professionals and associations of the cultural and creative sectors.

On Monday 29 April, a meeting was held in San Pietro al Natisone during which ATZ Projekt, partner of the PRIMIS project (MULTICULTURAL JOURNEY BETWEEN ITALY AND SLOVENIA THROUGH THE PRISMA DELLE MINORANZE) presented the multimedia centre SMO (Slovensko multimedialno okno - Slovenian multimedia window), the interactive museum of landscapes and narratives of the aspects characterizing the culture of the territory on the border between Italy and Slovenia.

The Tessitori Hall of the Regional Council, in Oberdan square in Trieste, will hold the public event “the commitment of the public authorities on climate change – new working patterns”, on Wednsday the 29th of May, at 9 a.m. The event is organized as part of the project SECAP, funded by the Interreg Italia-Slovenia 2014-2020 program.