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CIM-RC Coimbra, Finnova Foundation, Siglo Foundation and Santa María la Real Foundation will attend the seminar on behalf of NAPOCTEP

Brussels, 05.12.19.- The NAPOCTEP team will attend the Seminar of Main Beneficiaries of the 2nd Call of the Cooperation Program Interreg V A Spain-Portugal (POCTEP) 2014-2020 on 12 December. The event, organised by the Secretariat of the programme, will take place at the Higher Technical School of Engineering in Seville.

This seminar is aimed at Principal Beneficiaries and other Beneficiaries of the second call of POCTEP, with the exception of those Spanish beneficiaries whose Coordination Unit is the Directorate-General for European Funds of the Ministry of Finance.

At the conference will be present the CIM Região de Coimbra, the Finnova Foundation, the Siglo Foundation and the Santa María la Real Foundation, all beneficiaries of the NAPOCTEP Napoleonic Route Project.

The seminar will address several topics related to the Second Call, such as project management, indicators and results approach, information, communication and visibility tasks, and eligibility rules, among others. In addition, there will be a presentation of Coopera 2020 and a meeting of beneficiaries with their respective UC.

For their part, the NAPOCTEP partners will hold an internal meeting the day before the event to analyze the progress of the project and prepare the 2nd Follow-up Committee to be held in February in Ciudad Rodrigo.

To see the provisional program of the event in Seville, click here.

12.02.2019. CILIFO project financed by the ERDF funds through the Interreg VA Spain-Portugal POCTED (2014-2020) Cross-border Cooperation Programme will participate, represented by the lead beneficiary (Andalusia government, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development) and the Finnova Foundation in the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

On the occasion of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (https://www.ifema.es/en/cop25) and within the framework of the CILIFO project, Finnova Foundation will organise in Madrid, on December 11^th from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the IFEMA’s Mare Nostrum Space (Av. Capital de España, 7, 28042, Madrid, Spain), a round table entitled ‘Cooperation and governance for innovation in prevention, fire-fighting and restoration of burned spaces’.

The CILIFO project will be presented at this table as a case study regarding the need or not for international partnership methodologies. CILIFO is a pilot project of cross-border cooperation between Spain and Portugal in the EU. With a budget of 25 million euros, is the largest budget in the field of fire funded by the Interreg VA Spain-Portugal POCTED (2014-2020) Cross-border Cooperation Programme. CILIFO is a centre for promoting, training and cooperating in innovation in the field of forest fire prevention and fighting. Latin America is a region that suffers from important forest fires in the Amazon, so Chile affected by the scourge of fires will share its experiences by the hands if their mayor and business representatives.

COP25 will host the official launching of Firefighting Open Lab, an accelerator-incubator of business innovations – startups, scaleups – in forest firefighting and climate change mitigation and adaptation. The Firefighting Open Innovation Lab is an accelerator operated by Finnova Foundation, based in Sevilla and with the aim of promoting incubator networking – under public-private partnership – at global level for fighting forest fires and climate change mitigation and adaptation. In addition, the European Union’s financial tools for innovation in firefighting such as Horizon Europa and the LIFE Programs will be under discussion.

The closing ceremony will be held by a representative of Startup Europe Awards (SEUA), moment in which the Firefighting Cop25 Global Awards will be launched, within the framework of SEUA (startupeuropeawards.eu) – Open Innovation methodology within the Startup Europe of the European Commission. This call will identify disruptive innovations and is operated by the Europe Startup Awards Belgian entity. 

The event has been an opportunity to publicize the project of Napoleonic routes outside the eligible territory in the space POCTEP

Brussels, 27.11.19.- Between the 26 and 27. November, the Palace of Congresses of Jaca has been the scene of POCTEFA y tú: cooperemos para seguir creciendo, the first event focused on the results, good practice and the future of the projects of the European cross-border cooperation programme between Spain, France and Andorra (Interreg POCTEFA).

The event has served as a showcase for disseminating and sharing the good results of the projects that have been part of the programme since 2007, as well as publicizing its good practices and positive impact on the territory. The meeting has also served to foster dialogue between actors in the territory, to create synergies between project promoters, learn the keys to collaboration and have examples of good practices and learn how to use the new online tool with which you can learn about projects with common interests.

Íñigo Bilbao, Director of Sustainable Cities at the Finnova Foundation and coordinator of NAPOCTEP, attended the event to present and disseminate the good practices of the project. Finnova is a beneficiary of the Napoleonic routes project, and one of its tasks is the implementation of the project’s International Information and Communication Plan, in addition to establishing synergies and networking for the capitalization and exploitation of project results. This working forum held in Jaca within the framework of POCTEFA has been an opportunity to raise awareness of the NAPOCTEP project outside the eligible territory of the Cross-Border Cooperation Area 3 of the POCTEP Programme (Castile-Leon – Centro de Portugal).

This event has also served to facilitate possible collaborative lines between entities interested in the NAPOCTEP project for its future replication in the POCTEFA space, so as to extend the tourist route outlined in the NAPOCTEP project to other areas and areas of cooperation, thus favouring the enrichment of the territories, safeguarding the environment and creating jobs in rural and hinterland areas.

The European project has been shown together with other national projects in the world of inland tourism

Brussels, 22.11.2019-. This morning, the NAPOCTEP project was exhibited at INTUR, the famous International Inland Tourism Fair in Valladolid. The project of Napoleonic routes through Spain and Portugal had its own space in the stand of the Junta de Castilla y León, beneficiary of the project. Íñigo Bilbao, Director of Sustainable Cities in Finnova and coordinator of NAPOCTEP, presented the project as a good example of good practice in sustainable, quality and strategic rural tourism, which helps to boost the rural world by enriching the territory, safeguarding the environment and creating seasonally adjusted jobs in rural and inland areas.

The presentation was attended by personalities from the municipalities of Burgos, Ciudad Rodrigo and Medina de Rioseco, technicians from Astorga, travel agencies of cultural routes, technicians of the Fundación Santa María la Real and Fundación Siglo, and technicians of European projects of the Junta de Castilla y León, among other rural tourism professionals.

Bilbao highlighted the visibility that the international fair provides to NAPOCTEP: “our participation in INTUR is very interesting and allows us to make known the project and to contact many interested entities and people”. He also stressed the need to have municipalities, tourism companies and tour operators to build a tourism product, and expressed interest in coming back next year “with the product already created to start marketing it”.

NAPOCTEP is on display until 24 November, when the fair ends, together with other projects concerning the national level in culture, enogastronomy and nature, the key themes of rural tourism.

NAPOCTEP presented its good practices in brand promotion during the project meeting organised by the Interreg Programme POCTEP

Brussels, 21.11.2019-. This morning has started FEHISPOR, the historic Badajoz fair in which every year the best Spanish and Portuguese contents are presented in the IFEBA facilities – Badajoz Fair. From 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. took place a meeting of Interreg Spain-Portugal Tourism Projects, in which a networking session and good practices were carried out to capitalise on the results of various projects in the programme.

The meeting was attended by Nuno Pomar, coordinator of the CIM-RC COIMBRA, the main beneficiary of NAPOCTEP, and José Manuel Requena, representative of the FINNOVA Foundation, also a beneficiary of the project. Both have presented the good practices of the NAPOCTEP project and have given a presentation on the brand “Napoleonic Routes in the Iberian Peninsula”.

NAPOCTEP will continue to be present at the fair at the stand of the Interreg Spain-Portugal Programme, exhibited in the TURIBERIA section. This section is the first thematic space on Spanish-speaking tourism, in which various projects related to tourism and heritage destinations are presented. Visitors will be able to get to know the Napoleonic route project first hand until the 24th of November, when the fair ends.

More than 225 exhibitors and nearly 30,000 visitors are hosted each year in FEHISPOR. In addition to TURIBERIA, the fair also has other themed salons that reflect the cooperation between Spain and Portugal, such as the Salón de la Gastronomía Hispanolusa, the Feria de San Mateo de Elvas or the Salón de la Artesanía.

The project aims to enhance the rich cultural heritage of the Napoleonic era, thus generating a differentiated, quality and sustainable tourism product.

Brussels, 07.11.2019.- The mission of the NAPOCTEP project, approved in the second call of the Interreg POCTEP Programme and co-financed 75% by the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund), is to protect and enhance the cultural and natural heritage as the economic base of the cross-border cooperation area of the Centro region (Portugal) and the Castilla y León region (Spain). The project aims to enhance the rich cultural heritage of the Napoleonic era in the two regions of intervention and cooperation, generating a differentiated, quality and sustainable tourism product, attractive and capable of generating economic activity and employment.

By following the same line, the consortium of the NAPOCTEP project (www.napoctep.eu) has promoted the capitalization of good practices and the brand name “Napoleonic Routes through Spain and Portugal” in the SUDOE space. On 25 October 2019, the project proposal NAPOSUDOE was presented to the 4th Call of the Interreg SUDOE programme, through Priority Axis 5 of the Interreg SUDOE Programme: Protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency; and the Specific Objective 6c1 of the Interreg SUDOE Programme: “Improve methods of natural and cultural heritage management through networking and joint experimentation”.

In this proposal, CIM-COIMBRA participates as beneficiary of the project, as well as with the collaboration of the rest of the NAPOCTEP consortium. The NAPOSUDOE proposal involves as beneficiaries the following entities: Diputación Provincial de Burgos (Spain); CIM-COIMBRA (Portugal); Entidad Regional Turismo Centro (Portugal); Agencia Vasca de Turismo (Spain); Fundación Siglo (Spain); Municipality of Bayonne (France), and Écocène (France). NAPOCTEP achieves in this way to extend the collaborative networking and the tourist and patrimonial route of the Napoleonic period to the SUDOE space, establishing a link of capitalization of good practices of the brand Napoleonic routes through Spain and Portugal.

It is the space of reference for companies, professionals, entities and public administrations of the Intelligent, Autonomous and Connected Vehicles sectors.

S-Moving is an international forum dedicated to sharing knowledge in the field of technologies applied to intelligent, autonomous, connected and unmanned mobility by land, sea and aerospace, as well as its infrastructures. This offers the participants’ a transversal and multisectoral approach.

On the occasion of the European Mobility Week, you can register for the second edition of the S-Moving Forum without any additional costs. It will be held at the Palacio de Ferias y Congresos of Málaga (Spain) during the 9th and 10th October (between 9:30 and 18:30), where a series of conferences and workshops will be held on the latest innovation developments, legislation and regulations, integrated systems applied to transport, mobility, industry 4.0, insurance, services, content and new opportunities and challenges presented by intelligent mobility.

PROGRAMME

The Forum will begin on the 9th with a breakfast at 8:30 and will continue at 11:00 with the beginning of the Opening Ceremony S-Moving 2019. Throughout the day, 4 conferences and 5 round tables will be held to discuss, among other topics: technologies in autonomous vehicles; future and aerospace mobility; marine technology; smart transport infrastructures; and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS.

As for the programme for the 10th, the day will consist of 3 conferences and 5 round tables. On this occasion, the topics to be discussed will be the following: smart mobility; safety, legislation and social impact; mobility as a service; robotics applied to the Connected Autonomous Vehicle; and Talent Woman by S-Moving.

OBJECTIVES

Through these round tables and conferences, in which participants will share and exchange their ideas and experiences, the S-Moving Forum seeks to be a prominent business space that allows participants to establish synergies or contacts and find business opportunities. Among the objectives of S-Moving we also find:

• To bring together actors who focus their activities on the value chain of the development of autonomous, connected, unmanned vehicles, intelligent systems and their applied technologies around innovation and its management.
• To become the perfect business space for the presentation and exhibition of the major developments in innovative technologies and systems applied to the development of smart, autonomous, connected and unmanned vehicles.
• To contribute to the promotion of innovative initiatives in the field of intelligent systems, autonomous vehicles or industry 4.0, in order to promote the development and business growth of startups, TBCs (technology-based companies) and spin offs of these areas.

MAIN TOPICS

These are the main topics that will be discussed at the different S-moving forums and spaces:

• Transverse technology: Transport of the future will use unlike technologies to enhance its intelligence and autonomy: 5G mobile communications, IoT, laser, robotics and mechatronics, artificial intelligence, big data, radar-LIDAR, blockchain, and quantum computing.
• Aerospace technology: The aerospace industry maintains its growth in the commercial sector but it soares in the defense sector. Future Trends include combining the use of the blockchain, the artificial intelligence, the digital thread, and the digital factory.
• Maritime-marine technology: Autonomous marine vehicles offer enormous practical potential: robots and marine drones, civil works and maintenance, environment, mining activity, transport, security and defense.
• Intelligent infrastructures: Intelligence and connectivity must be understood not only applied to mobility but also to the infrastructures involved.
• Terrestrial technologies: Connected vehicle development is inextricably linked to the interconnection of cars themselves, connection with other vehicles and with infrastructures.
• SDV and 4.0 applications: The evolution of the industry AGV to SDV 4.0 is starting to take control, due to the rapid advance in sensorics and big data. SDV solutions comprises scalability, intelligence and usability.
• Urban mobility: Electric mobility, autonomous driving, traffic management platforms, apps and new forms of intelligent transport to suit both individual transportation and public are significantly changing mobility in big cities.
• Drones: The specific characteristics of drones turn them into perfect allies to fulfill vigilance, control and security tasks. These tasks are already being carried out with AVs support.
• New mobility solutions: Latest mobility solutions are required to save resources and ensure maximum sustainability. Electric and shared mobility solutions and a collaborative economy is emerging due to an unstoppable progress.

OPPORTUNITIES

As already mentioned, the S-moving Forum offers a wide variety of activities and opportunities in the field of mobility:

The autonomous and connected mobility systems represent a great opportunity for the development of new forms of present and future transport, such as robotics, self-learning, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, IoT, LIDAR… All these technologies have a large potential for growth in the various fields of activity of these systems: land, maritime, and aerospace.

The innovation and application of new technologies to the autonomous and connected systems will lead to a real change in the transportation models of both people and things, as well as in the field of defense, rescue, research, etc. This is mainly due to the fact that these vehicles offer the possibility of numerous applications in various fields of production, business, social, and environmental issues. In addition, they can also reduce the reaction time, improve job security, in transport, in emergencies, and in a variety of fields.

PARTICIPANTS

Among the Forum participants we find: innovative companies focused on the creation, development, production and distribution of intelligent and connected vehicles (land, aerospacial or sea) and their components; automotive companies in the field of industry 4.0; CEOs of large companies, telephone companies, insurance companies, construction companies, audiovisual companies, public administrations, startups, project managers, consultants or state security forces, among others.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE?

There are several ways to participate in this Forum:

• As a professional visitor: access only (registration required)..
• As an exhibitor: Gives you the opportunity to make your offer known to all attendees from a personalised space (registration required).
• As a professional visitor + networking agenda: Booking a Networking Agenda gives you exclusive access to an on-line meetings tool that will allow you to meet with other professionals (registration required).
• As a professional visitor + networking lunch: Booking a Networking Agenda gives you exclusive access to an on-line meetings tool that will allow you to meet with other professional (registration required).
• As a professional visitor (university student, professional training, master or postgraduate): Booking a Networking Agenda gives you exclusive access to an on-line meetings tool that will allow you to meet with other professional (registration required).
• Flight in inland zone: Indoor area specifically for demonstrative drone and unmanned systems flights.
• Presentation: if you are a company, a success story or you have a project that is going to change the world of mobility, S-Moving is the right place to be.
• As a partner: it’s time to step forward and become one of the leading companies of the changes in mobility.

Remember that the inscription is totally free if you apply during the European Mobility Week using this code: SMOVING EMW.

You can find more information about the types of participation and how to register in this link.

The 5^th Call for Proposals is open until December 2019 and is the last planned Call in the current programming period.

Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) is an initiative of the European Union that provides urban areas in Europe with resources to test new solutions for addressing urban challenges. For 2014-2020, the initiative has a total budget of EUR 372 million from the ERDF. The last open call, which launched on September 16^th, is the last planned Call in the current period. The closure of the Call is 12 December 2019.

The aim of this initiative is to face all the employment, migration, demography, water and soil pollution challenges that the EU population living in cities, towns and suburbs faces. Thus, encouraging urban authorities with a local population of at least 50 000 inhabitants to go beyond traditional policies and services and to take risks experimenting the most innovative and creative solutions.

However, given the complexity of the urban challenges, urban authorities cannot act alone. It is important to involve stakeholders and experts when designing and implementing effective and innovative solutions so they can bring expertise and knowledge on the issue (agencies, organisations, institutions, NGOs, etc.).

Urban authorities get support from the UIA at two different levels:

• Funding: UIA co-finances 80 % of the project’s activities, up to EUR 5 million from the ERDF.
• Capturing and sharing the knowledge of the project: UIA is interested in understanding what worked in the implementation of your project and what did not work to share it with other urban policy-makers and practitioners across Europe.

Project topics

The type of projects that this initiative funds must be innovative, participative, of good quality, measurable and transferable. In addition, urban authorities in the framework of an UIA call for proposals should select only one of the proposed topics: air quality, circular economy, culture and cultural heritage, and demographic change. In order to support ERDF investment priorities and thematic objectives, the whole project should be considered as a support instrument for the ERDF thematic objectives and investment priorities.

Who can apply?

According to the Terms of Referene for previous calls, the following bodies are eligible to apply:

• Any urban authority of a local administrative unit defined according to the degree of urbanization as city, town or suburb comprising at least 50,000 inhabitants;
• Any association or grouping of urban authorities of local administrative units defined according to the degree of urbanization as city, town or suburb where the total population is at least 50,000 inhabitants. This include cross-border associations of different regions between Member States.

Application process

The application process is 100 % digital. In fact, only Application Forms submitted through the online Electronic Exchange Platform (EEP) will be considered by the Permanent Secretariat. The application for the fifth Call for Proposals for the UIA initiative consists of the following:

• These terms of reference are available in all EU languages. However, in case of discrepancies, please note that the English version prevails.
• Technical Guidance for the Electronic Exchange Platform (EEP).
• There are detailed instructions for completing the application form available in all European languages in the EEP system itself. However, in case of discrepancies, please note that the English version is the prevailing one.

The deadline for submission of the application form and confirmation sheet is 12 December 2019, 14h00 CET.

To find out more about the application, it is very recommended to check the reference book for the UIA Initiative: the Guidance document is available here. You can also find more information in the documents of previous Calls.