Macro-regional & Sea Basin Strategies Days 2024

For the first time this year, the EU MRS Week is turning into the EU Macro-regional and Sea Basin Strategies Days, co-organised by DG REGIO and DG MARE!

The seven strategies (Alpine, Danube, Adriatic-Ionian, Baltic Sea, Atlantic, Western Mediterranean and Black Sea) will encounter each other’s during a two-day event in Brussels. The event will serve as a communication and networking platform, enhancing coordination among participating countries, pillars coordinators, stakeholders, presidencies and representatives of the EU institutions.

Following the slogan #Strategies4cooperation, the event will focus on different thematic, all of them relevant to the seven strategies, with the main aim of exchanging knowledge, creating new synergies and reinforcing old ones.

Five parallel interactive workshops will take place during the afternoon of the first day, focusing on the following themes:

• Energy transition, climate change and risk management
• Unlocking regional potential: Bosting cooperation on innovation, clusters development and smart specialisation
• Civil Society involvement in the Macro-Regional and Sea Basin Strategies
• Funding of Macro-Regional and Sea Basin Strategies’ actions
• The EU Macro-Regional and Sea Basin Strategies in the EU Enlargement process

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