European Week of Regions and Cities 2024
The 22nd edition of the European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) will take place on 7-10 October 2024.
This year, the agenda will feature 100+ sessions. All activities are organised in person in Brussels. The full agenda and more information are available on the event website.
The 2024 edition will focus on four topics:
- Competitiveness and convergence: two sides of the same coin
- Regions strengthening European democracy
- Smart and sustainable growth for regions
- Regions got talent
As a long-standing partner of the European Week of Regions and Cities, we will organise and participate in different activities during the event. Take a look at the list below to find out more about our sessions and see what our joint secretariat, our Platform experts, and representatives from our projects are up to during the week.
Come and see how interregional cooperation can make a difference!
The exhibition is open to all #EURegionsWeek participants.
More information to come.
Activities of our projects at #EURegionsWeek
Learn more about what representatives from our projects are up to during the week.
Workshop - 10WS241415 - 09:30-10:30 CEST
This is your chance to learn from practitioners about how European Regional Development Fund financial instruments and the Interreg Europe programme can help young innovators succeed in their regions! Discover the stories of local entrepreneurs and professionals thriving thanks to EU support. Learn how funding opportunities through equity investment can spark local research and innovation and how projects such as SKALE2CT can make an impact on societies, the environment and the economy.
Workshop - 10WS241494 - 11:30-12:30 CEST
Public entities in candidate countries and Member States are jointly addressing the complex challenges brought by military aggression and the displacement of populations, as well as other issues more routinely faced by authorities. Speakers from border regions in RO, MD, UA and from Interreg Europe’s InnoCom project offer perspectives about sharing European values through territorial cooperation and working together for resistance, recovery, resilience & reinforcement.
#EURegionsWeek website
Visit the event website for more information.
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