EMEA Project Manager Christine de Visser represented the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association at the collaborative research and data sharing meeting which took place at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Niš (FEUN) in Niš, Serbia on 26 and 27 June 2024. At the meeting CROSS REIS project partners met and attended presentations by FEUN researchers on their ongoing research activities closely related to CROSS REIS objectives and area of research and they discussed future activities of the CROSS REIS project.
Christine de Visser, Project Manager at EMEA, presented the preliminary agenda of the 5-day visit to Spain planned for October 2024 to the participants. It was a great opportunity to meet project partners and work in person on defining the next steps for joint activities, such as the training on circular economy for local policymakers planned for 2024, in collaboration with the University of Montenegro and the University of Ljubljana.
On the second day, CROSS REIS Partners visited infrastructures in Niš such as the Science-Technology Park and the Serbian-Korean Information Access Center. The first one offers co-working spaces and technical assistance to entrepreneurs in different maturity stages and the second one promotes international cooperation and digital capacity building for citizens to empower citizens of NIS with enhanced digital literacy through various activities.
CROSS-REIS is an EU funded project which aims to raise excellence in science and value creation through deeper and geographically inclusive cooperation in alliance of higher education and research institutions in 5 widening and 4 science-leading European countries, to support the shift towards a regenerative economy paradigm. Global competitiveness and visibility of the Higher Education institutions in widening countries are to be improved by creating critical knowledge and research mass through cooperation with leading European research institutions in the area of the regenerative economy directly aimed towards the twin green and digital transitions.
EMEA is leading WP6: “Global and Local Collaboration: Think globally, act locally”. Global and Local Collaboration aims to engage citizens, cities, regions, and non-academic actors in the transition towards a circular economy.
