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European Programs and Promotion of New Entrepreneurship
The Department of European Programs and Promotion of New Entrepreneurship:
- It ensures the municipality’s continuous connection and independent presence in the European and international arena.
- It is responsible for the Municipality’s participation in European and international networks and organizations as an official member and carries out all the necessary actions for this purpose (correspondence, participation in conferences, exhibitions, presentations).
- It monitors the European and international institutional framework as well as the possibilities for utilizing European programs and financial instruments, informs and cooperates with the competent services, submits proposals for the Municipality’s participation in Competitive European Programs, and manages and monitors their implementation.
- It cooperates with local, regional, and national bodies, services, and agencies, as well as with services, agencies of the European Union, and international organizations.
- It implements relevant informational and promotional activities.
- It promotes opportunities for the advancement and development of new entrepreneurship by linking contemporary European practices, as derived from the European Commission, with regard to guidelines for the creation of new opportunities in emerging areas of new business activity, in conjunction with opportunities created by the domestic and local markets, and finding ways to support and assist in the further development and success of relevant plans and practices.
Contact the Department of European Programs and New Entrepreneurship Evangelia Gkountroumpi,
Phone: 2413500237
E-mail: euprojects@larissa.gov.gr
European programs of the Municipality of Larissa:
Erasmus+
Erasmus+ is the EU program supporting education, training, youth, and sport in Europe.
- A new ENTRance: Development of innovative instruments for promoting entrepreneurship of Roma
- INCOME: Innovating COworking Methods through Exchange
- Sport4Values
- DIGICULT: Digital presentation and preservation of intangible cultural heritage
- COHERENT: A Circle Of youth for tHe EuRope wE want
- BETA – Bridges of Intergenerational Approach
URBACT
URBACT is the European Territorial Cooperation program that aims to strengthen sustainable integrated urban development in European cities.
Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 was an EU funding program for research and innovation for the period 2014-2020, which is being continued by Horizon Europe.
- CS-AWARE: CYBERSECURITY
- ACTIVAGE Project: Activating Innovative IoT Smart living environments for ageing well
- CLEVER Cities: Co-designing Locally tailored Ecological solutions for Value added, socially inclusivE Regeneration in Cities
- Easy Rights: Enabling immigrants to easily know and exercise their rights
Horizon Europe
The following program is being implemented as part of the Horizon Europe program:
Europe for Citizens
The Europe for Citizens program supports initiatives that preserve the memory of recent European history and strengthen citizens’ participation in public life at the EU level.
- HE-ART: Heart of Europe – network of towns promoting heart culture, solidarity and integration
- CIT-EU: The future perspective of the European Community
- PUNCH: Participation of Underrepresented Citizens for the valorization of the Cultural Heritage
- VALID: European Towns – Enhancing Common Values of Solidarity and Intercultural Dialogue
- SOLIDART: Network for the youth debate about the solidarity in crisis times, through creativity and art
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV)
The Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) program aims to protect and promote rights and values as enshrined in the EU Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, in particular by supporting civil society organizations active at local, regional, national, and transnational levels.
- LocalEUCharter: EU Charter on Fundamental Rights closer to citizens
- REACH: Roma women’s Empowerment and fighting discrimination in ACcess to Health
- FutureUp: Young players building the future of Europe
- JuniorXpress: A youth-led civic coaching driver for enhanced child-owned local governance
- PROGRESS_EU: Raising awareness of European rights for a progressive and transformative Europe
- Cities4Her: An inter-municipal youth-led forum for substantive gender equality in local decision-making
Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF)
The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) was established for the period 2021-2027 and aims to further strengthen national capacities and improve migration management processes, as well as to strengthen solidarity and responsibility sharing between Member States, in particular through emergency assistance and the relocation mechanism.
- InCommon: Cultural and Educational Interventions for the exercise of the Active Citizenship of Migrant Women
- MINGLE: Generating Social and Human Capital for Third Country Nationals
- IN2C: Integration of Third-Country Nationals in the Construction sector
- CONSULTING EUTH: Transnational Actions on Asylum, Migration and Integration
LIFE Programme
The LIFE program is the EU’s financial instrument for the environment and climate action. On May 21, 2022, it turned thirty years old.
Internal Security Fund (ISF)
The Internal Security Fund (ISF) aims to achieve a high level of security in the European Union.