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Among the various journalists, the CEI and SEEMO have selected Anna Babinets for her long-lasting experience and commitment in investigative reporting as well as for her current engagement in providing evidence of war crimes against Ukrainian civilians.

In Antwerp, Belgium, on 9-10, the Interreg Project ACSELL held a two-day workshop on the Living Lab methodology— led by LiCalab, a research group of the Thomas More University of Applied Sciences assisting busin

The Interreg Adrion Project SUSTOURISMO held its 4th capacity building webinar on 11 November.

Yesterday, on 10 November, more than thirty civil servants from various public administrations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited the CEI - Executive Secretariat in the context of the project EU Scheme for Young Professionals in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUSYP).

From 8 to 10 November the CEI-Executive Secretariat represented the SUSTOURISMO (Sustainable Tourism and Mobility Hand by Hand Development) and MIMOSA (Maritime and Multimodal Sustainable Passenger transport solutions and services) projects at the ECOMONDO Green Technology Expo organised by the Italian Exhibition Group in Rimini.

Stakeholders, entrepreneurs, and strategic foreign investors recently met in Sofia on the occasion of the CEI Economic Forum on The Challenges the CEI SMEs are Facing and the Economic Recovery of the Region organised under the Bulgarian CEI Presidency.

On 7 November 2022, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Milkov hosted the annual meeting of the CEI Foreign Ministers in Sofia.

EBRD Green Cities has received support from multi-lateral donors and has attracted significant levels of co-financing, thus expanding the number of cities that can be supported and further raising the level of ambition.
Young entrepreneurs continue facing obstacles in accessing credit lines and expertise to grow their businesses, despite their potential for innovation.
The National Coordinators have recently approved two new Technical Cooperation Projects (TCs), to be funded under the CEI Fund at the EBRD, entirely financed by the Italian Government.
On 26 October, the Bulgarian CEI Presidency - in cooperation with the CEI-Executive Secretariat, and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe - organised an informal event in the context of the Local Dimension, the youngest operational pillar of the CEI, as a follow up to the discussions held during the 1st CEI Local Authorities Congress in Sofia on 8 June 2022.

On 25 October, BIOLOC partners gathered in Brussels to officially kick off their project. On this occasion, the partnership fine-tuned project activities that aim to advance the role and impact of social innovation to revitalise European local communities and accelerate the transition to the circular bioeconomy (CBE).

Working together towards building disaster-resilient societies as a fundamental prerequisite for achieving sustainable development.
In order to give young people in our Member States the chance to submit their ideas and suggestions on activities of their interest, at any given time, the CEI-Executive Secretariat has recently set up a new youth@cei.int mailbox!

On 14 October, the University of Ca Foscari in Venice, a partner of the MIMOSA project, presented the main achievements related to the improvement of cross-border connections between Italy and Croatia as well as studies performed in the framework of the project to reduce the carbon footprint and incentive Intermodality.

Young people are innovators and should be actively promoted as drivers of change and as a pillar for building a peaceful society and strengthening democratic governance.
Local councilors and members of civil society organisations (CSOs) from CEI Member States recently took part in two online modules (15, 16 September) and one offline module (Novi Sad, Serbia on 3-8 October) within a series of courses titled “Boosting social inclusion in see: policy hackathon for municipalities”.

The 2022 edition of the Barcolana Sea Summit organised in Trieste on 5-7 October looks at the need for a holistic and integrated approach to face the complexity of ensuring the sustainability of the Mediterranean - thus putting international cooperation, support to science and technology safeguarding the Mediterranean, and the role of businesses and institutions first-place.

Students and experts in clinical engineering, biotechnology, health informatics and public health from the CEI region gathered in Trieste (Italy) from 26 August to 29 September to attend the X edition of the Spring School on “IoT, economic

Parliamentary Delegations from CEI Member States gathered in Krakow, Poland, on 26-27 September, for their meeting of the General Committee on Cultural Affairs chaired by Tomasz Głogowski, Head of the Polish Parliamentary Delegation to the CEI.
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