
Joint demonstration exercise held within project Safe together
As part of the Safe Together Risk Prevention in Cross-Border Area project, a joint demonstration exercise was held in Daruvar, on 15 and 16 December 2022, in which teams from
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The European Cooperation Day is an event dedicated to promoting territorial cooperation in Europe. It highlights positive results of projects implemented throughout different regions and different countries. The European Cooperation Day takes place as a local event in which the community can see first-hand how cooperating across borders improves life in and around Europe.
The European Cooperation Day is organized every year around 21 September. Hundreds of cross-border celebrations are organized every year by Interreg programmes both in EU and neighbouring countries, with the joint idea to share borders and bring our neighbours together.
The Managing Authority and Joint Secretariat are celebrating the European Cooperation Days every year. So far, we organized European Cooperation Days in Skradin (HR), Šibenik (HR) and Herceg Novi (MNE). Scroll down for more information on past celebrations.
More info on the European Cooperation Day initiative can be found on the website www.ecday.eu.
The second event was held on 6 October 2020 in Karlovac. The celebration was attended by the Minister of Regional Development and EU Funds, Ms Nataša Tramišak, the Head of the European Commission Representation in Croatia, Mr Ognian Zlatev, the Director of REGEA Mr Julije Domac, dr.sc., the Mayor of the City of Karlovac, Mr Damir Mandić and the Deputy Mayor of Karlovac County, Ms Vesna Hajsan Dolinar, dr.sc.
The third event was held on 27 October 2020 in Hutovo Blato. The celebration was attended by the representatives of Nature Park Hutovo Blato, Directorate for European Integration and Joint Secretariat.
In 2019, the EC Day was organized on 18 October at the Kamena kuća, located in Banja Luka’s Kastel fortress.
With the EC Day 2019 theme titled ‘Europe is you’, our idea was to acknowledge the role of citizens and the local community as most valuable partners of the European Union. Several hundred visitors joined our celebration and learned how our projects increase cultural understanding throughout our Programme area.
The program included an interactive exhibition about Interreg, our Programme and collages and paintings made as part of the EC Day 2018.
A project fair presented achievements of our projects: MELAdetect, Smart Schools and Fortress ReInvented.
Finally, a cycle cinema was set up on the second floor of Kamena kuća and welcomed visitors to cycle and in this way power generators that showed video clips about our projects, Interreg and past EC Days. A power-generating competition was organized also, in which prizes were given to cyclists producing the most energy.
The European Cooperation Day 2018 was marked on 3 October with three children’s homes from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro in our very own cross-border art colony in Bijela, Montenegro.
This year’s idea was to help create a cooperative Europe by letting the children lead the way and paint our future together in a form of an art colony.
The event gathered children from three homes for children from Dubrovnik (HR), Mostar (BA) and Bijela (MNE). The program started with a theatre show performed by children of the Bijela home for children, who delivered an important message to protect our environment and preserve it for future generations. A show performed by professional facilitators followed and taught the children ideas of being caring, kind and considerate to our environment and friends. After the show, the event moved outdoors and made the colouring and painting activities more fun.
Groups of children from three countries participating in the Programme decorated the T-shirts branded with this year’s logo and painted canvases with natural elements of our programme area. The children also helped a professional street artist in painting a wall mural with elements of the three cities from which the children arrived – Kanli fortress of Herceg Novi, Mostar’s old bridge and the city walls of Dubrovnik. At the end of the event, Programme bodies provided gifts for homes for children participating in the event to remember the fun activities of European Cooperation Day 2018 in Herceg Novi.
Why an art colony? We believe it is the best way to highlight the role of children and young people in building the Europe they want. We believe it is the best way to tell the story of cooperation between Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro as well.
As part of the Safe Together Risk Prevention in Cross-Border Area project, a joint demonstration exercise was held in Daruvar, on 15 and 16 December 2022, in which teams from
With more than 200 participants who attended the Launching Conference on site, and more than 530 participants who followed the live broadcast via our official YouTube channel, we celebrated the
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