April - 2019

Portugal and Spain: a cross-border cooperation living history

I was born in a small town in the northern coast of Portugal - Esposende -, from where it would take me about an hour (approximately 50 km) to cross the border to Spain. So, you could say that I have experienced the proximity and cooperation between Spain and Portugal in its purest way: living it and feeling it myself. Would I have ever imagined being a volunteer of the Interreg VA Spain-Portugal? Absolutely not! The fact is that the experience could not be better, and cooper

The Mediterranean on my mind

Two months ago, I arrived in “la dotta, la grassa, la rossa”, “the erudite, the fat, the red one”, in other words, the city of Bologna, in the north of Italy. Known for its historical universities -the very first one in Europe-, culinary tradition – from Bolognese dishes to parmesan, etc…-, and red bricks buildings (and also left-wing leanings), it is a beautiful and lively town, at the heart of the Emilia-Romagna region, hosting its administrative quarters. It is where I got

Share knowledge, develop together

Hello, my name is Eleni and I am an IVY volunteer at regional Development Agency of Rodopi S.A. since November 2018. Throughout my experience I have engaged in the implementation of the Interreg V-A Greece-Bulgaria 2014-2020 project ‘ReinFORCE SOCIAL Entrepreneurial Spirit through the setting up of innovative structures in the cross-border territory- Social Forces’. The activities in which I have so far been involved include the organization of an Info Day, and a Round Table.

The story of “Visegradi”

I’m Aleksandra, another IVY Volunteer in Danube Transnational Programme. I am very lucky to be a volunteer in the Joint Secretariat. My adventure in Budapest started in November and is going to last until May. When I got an offer to become a volunteer in Join Secretariat of DTP, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go to Budapest. I have visited this city before, so I was looking for different adventures. But I changed my mind after talking on Skype with Eloy Gomez, who is my mentor

Digitising species data in Slovenia

When I heard for IVY (AEBR) organization, I didn’t have any expectations because I had no idea how it might look like. I heard for volunteering organization around the world but when I talk with older students who were abroad they advised me to be careful because this could be expensive, therefore I check a few of them and then stop thinking about that. But I am very glad that I’m a part of it at National Institute of Biology. They are a part of BID-REX interreg Europe from B