Aiming to empower young people to proactively shape the future of their region, the Ida-Viru Youth Climate Assembly is a powerful example of how to give youth a voice in the transition process and integrate their recommendations into official policy development work streams. The assembly brought...

The project “Strukturlotsen” (which translates to: ‘structural pilots’) aims to improve the capacities of district authorities to pursue regional development through expertise-sharing. The project brings four districts together, each one of them having a person (known as a ‘structural pilot’) re...

The objective of this study is to provide supporting evidence which analyses the role of renewable energy generation projects with regional impact as a driver for more successful implementation of the Fit for 55 package and the increased ambition for renewable energy and support the swift implem...

The Principality of Asturias is a region located in the north-west of Spain, which constitutes one of Spain’s 17 autonomous communities. With a total population 1,006,060 inhabitants, the region represents 2.1% of the total national population. It has a population density of 94.73 inhabitants/km...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is aimed at boosting intra-African trade and promoting regional development. However, the distribution of its benefits and costs across member states and household groups is uneven, and it presents opportunities and threats to different sectors of...

Fifteen case studies in the Baltic Sea, North Sea, EU Atlantic Western Waters and some outermost regions (focusing on the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands) were selected to gather insights into potential spillover effects of different types of marine protected areas (MPAs). The majority of the...

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are widely recognized as an important tool for biodiversity conservation and fisheries management. Despite empirical evidence that abundance and biomass of fished species increase within MPA boundaries, the potential for MPAs to provide fisheries benefits to adjacen...

In the 2021-2027 programming period, the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and Just Transition Fund (JTF) play a significant role in support to skills. Additional funds, such as the Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF), Erasmus+, Technical Support Instrum...

This in-depth overview of European Union (EU) cohesion funds’ investment in skills aims to better understand the proportion of planned investments by the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and Just Transition Fund (JTF) dedicated to labour-market focused...