Hi everyone! I’m Laura and I’m celebrating my first month at the Conference of the Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) as an IVY! I mainly support the Islands Commission (CPMR-IC) and the Intermediterranean Commission (CPMR-IMC) in the follow-up and the implementation of two Interreg projects, namely WINTER MED and DestiMED PLUS. I am working with Ilaria Buttu, who is also an Interreg volunteer at the CPMR-IMC and with whom I enjoy working on these projects. Both WINTER MED an

Hi there! I'm Chiara, currently volunteering in Malaga, Spain, under the Interreg Mediterranean Biodiversity protection project. As one of the partners of this community, the team of the European Topic Center of the University of Malaga is hosting me in supporting the activities related to Biodiversity Protection Community, the horizontal project that aims to protect and promote biodiversity protection in the Mediterranean through transboundary cooperation. "Transboundary" th

It has been already a month since I ‘ve began volunteering for the PALIMPSEST Project, a research project co-funded by the Interreg V-A Greece-Italy 2014-2020. These first weeks have been really special and I believe it’s a great moment to share my experiences about this unprecedented journey! First of all, I should introduce you to the project. PALIMPSEST (Post-Alphabetic, Interactive Museum using Participatory, Space-Embedded Story-Telling) is a European project of cross-bo

Hello everyone, I am Nikos Kalamatianos and I am an IVY Project Partner for the FourElements NGO. As an Interreg Project partner it is given to me the opportunity to be a part of the broader European “family” in which I am enabled to learn more about the European Cohesion policy and cultivate myself in its common values of solidarity and cooperation. The project that I am volunteering is EduTourism which is part of “Interreg V-A Greece-Cyprus 2014-2020” program. The main goal

Greetings, I want to introduce myself, I am Vláďa Patera and I am a volunteer in the REEgain project. The main focus of the project are rare earth elements (REE) and their reuse. In achieving such a goal Czech and Austrian scientists use microorganisms like algae and bacteria. Both sides work hard on finding a way to get REEs out of water or electronic waste. I study neither biology nor chemistry, I, however, am interested In ecology. This project is very much set on ecology,

E tudo o que o vento levou As humans we have a very short-term memory. We tend to have the necessity to remind ourselves, constantly of all the dangers there are outside. We need tv commercials, teachers to tell us about all the things in history that made us turn against each other and towards nature, our parents trying to warn us (at times constantly) about dangers in the streets, tweet alerts about news, facebook posts about a specific dauntingly terrible event that marked

Hi there! My name is Iveta and as an IVY Project Partner I volunteer on a very interesting ecological project called REEgain. Which means sustainable biological recycling of environmentally problematic substances (rare earth elements) from electronic waste and water. It's been almost two months since I started my IVY experience. And those few weeks were absolutely amazing. I study biologogy and geography, so for me working on an eco-project focused on algae is something great

Hello! I am Chiara, I am Italian and I moved to Lyon, France, in October 2021 to begin this amazing six-months experience as an Interreg Volunteer Youth in ALCOTRA, the Interreg Programme for cooperation between Italy and France. Just a few weeks have passed, but I’ve already learned a lot about the Programme and I’m already feeling a part of the ALCOTRA family. ALCOTRA is an Interreg Programme that finances projects in French departments and Italian provinces along the Alpin

In recent years, the tourism industry has been hit with a number of hurdles: from the Covid-19 pandemic to environmental threats and mass tourism impacting local communities and threatening fragile entire ecosystems, especially in coastal and mountain zones. Tourism is one of the fastest growing and largest industries in the world, with Europe being the world's primary tourism destination. Pre-pandemic the sector made up 10% of global ($9.2 trillion) and EU GDP and provided a

More than 70% of the total Greece-Bulgaria cross-border area is mountainous, with scattered remote small village, inhabited mainly by elder and low-income people, who do not have access to primary healthcare services. Large medical centers are far away and the habitants face severe difficulties regarding the accessibility and quality of fundamental healthcare. The only solution for years was the transfer of the patients to metropole cities. Imagine being 75 years old and livi