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1. FACTSHEET ARBEITSMARKT NORD
-cooperations of partners in the North to create a mutual education system and a mutual work environment
-goal: borders should not play a role
-examples to achieve this:
1. consultancy for employers: employers should be informed about current situations cross-border
2. praxis experience and internships, especially in the fields of nursing care should be provided
3. PraktiTrans: students are informed and provided with internships/work/education in the neighbor countries
4. Statistic project: cross-border information is analysed and worked on regarding the job market in the neighbor countries

3. FACTSHEET NATURAL TECHNOLOGY
-INTERREG project "Bionic KMU"
-project about new innovation method to enable the use of natural technologies
-provides support for complex technological challenges reaching from the first idea to concep development to the prototype
-natural (biological) rolemodels should be made technological to make existing technologies better or create new ones by looking at the functions of nature
-examples: saving energy, saving ressources, 3D printing
-should happen across German-Dutch border

4. FACTSHEET MARI GREEN
-development and implementation of green-shipping technologies across the Dutch-German border
-innovative projects to improve the environment, as well as focus on the future and economy of shipping to decrease emissions emitted by shipping and save the environment
-total partners of project: 63
-total budget: €9.9 mio
-three main goals:
1. development of green shipping: reducing CO2 emissions, resource-friendly production, save shipping to save the oceans and environment
2. strengthen the maritime economy: creation of maritime jobs, development of green maritime innovation, cross-border maritime technology transfer between science and economy, cross-border employee support
3. maritime knowledge network and expert winning: cross-border knowledge transfer, cross-border expert winning

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Actual Initiatives they are working on
- Employer Advisory -> where employers in the border area get actively approached to find students and personnel in the border area
- Zorgen voor.. zorgen dat -> a cooperation between caretakers, schools and businesses to send students abroad for more  experience
- Praktitrans -> workers and businesses who inform students about opportunities to study abroad
- Statistiekproject -> information gets gathered and analysed about the  job market

Project Bionica in het MKB
- a project which provides a out-of-the-box innovative method where they make use of native proved technology. If you are established in the EDR region you can participate with your company. this has to deal with e.g. energy saving, climate change,, sensors etc. In this project you get to work together with experts in the EDR region

Project MariGreen (german)

Project Power to flex
- Storage of sustainable energy
a cooperation-project in which businesses, universities and authorities develop pilot plants for the storage of sustainable energy, the project has 18 partners and runs from 2016 till 2019

Project Groene Kaskade
- an INTERREG project who wants to further expand the bioeconomie in the Dutch-German borderarea by making better use out of input- and output-flows which are part of the biogaschains

Project Grenzeloos veen by INTERREG V A
- from 2015 till 2018 this project runs. it is a cooperative strategy to project the unique nature, advance the livability and to create a  coherent living space

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-"Sustainable energy Germany Netherlands"
-"Green gas"
-"Hansa Energy Corridor"
-also projects in the field of  nutrition science, agriculture,  bio-based economy
-2014: help from Interreg support program

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file:///C:/Users/Michella/Downloads/Arbeidsmarkt%20Grensregio%20NL-NI.pdf

file:///C:/Users/Michella/Downloads/2012_edr_image_broschre.pdf

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-tourism
-energy
-innovation
-demographic change
-culture
-economy
-integration
-exchange
-education
-language
-technology

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The EDR has established itself as the primary source in the region when dealing with questions of cross-border cooperation.

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-board is elected every two years
-consists of eight Dutch and eight German members
-monthly meetings about current projects and initiatives
-chairman: Bernhard Bramlage

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The EDR Council is the highest body of the EDR and consists of two representatives from each member. The EDR Council gathers twice yearly to receive news on important projects and discuss developments at the EDR. Each EDR member has one vote, which is used to elect the EDR Board of Directors.
The EDR Board of Directors is elected in bi-annual terms by the EDR Council. It consists of sixteen members, eight from Germany and eight from the Netherlands. Generally, the board sits monthly and prepares cross-border projects and initiatives. Further, the board represents the interests of the region in regional, national and European conventions. The position of chairman rotates between a German and Dutch representative every two years

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"(...) is to establish and improve contacts and levels of interaction between people, companies and organisations within the border region.

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The EDR works to overcome differences in legal systems (present the most significant obstacle to cross-border cooperation), but also differing customs and cultural expectations, which can add to the difficulties of cross-border initiatives

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This program provides subsidies to projects in the following areas: economy, technology and innovation, sustainable regional development, as well as integration and society.

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- website in Dutch, German and English
- English site is very 'plain', not much information and not as much info as the German and Dutch site
- The agenda on the website is only updated on the Dutch and German site
- very old information can be found on the website, such as events back in 2014
- they refer to different websites for information a lot instead of providing the info on their own website
- the English site provides a link to the list of members, which if you click ends up going to the German site
- They do have a newsletter
- Brochures only in Dutch and German
- INTERREG from 2007-2013 but not current

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- Facebook page is not up-to-date
- non-active on Twitter since June 2016
- LinkedIn is not up-to-date  info Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/EDR_actueel/media
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/eems.dollard.regio

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/eems-dollard-regio-edr-

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- a dutch/german meetingcentrum
- they have about 100 workers, including: official bodies, municipalities, cities, districts, chambers of commerce, and the Ostfriesische Landschaft.
- intensifying contact between people living at the border

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- active in the areas of spatial planning, infrastructure, planning, culture and developing the regional economy
- provides financial assistance for regional cross-border initiatives
- EDR receives financial support from the Dutch provinces of Groningen, Drenthe and Friesland, as well as project associated contributions from the German federal state of Lower-Saxony
-  An important contributor to the activities of the EDR is the European Union, which contributes to cross-border activities as a part of its INTERREG-IVA program