The School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, offers a master programme in “Master of Science in Logistics and Transport Management”.

Steering Committee meeting No. 7 was held 29-30 November in Hamburg, Germany. At the meeting, the Steering Committee decided about the applications received under the 7th Call for Applications.

The German North Sea Regions event 'Joining Forces' was held 22 November in Brussels. Papers launched at the event on the Interreg contribution to the regions are now available online.

A conclusions paper from the Joint Transnational Conference 2011, held 15-16 September in Katowice, Poland, is now available online.

A new guidance note on overheads for projects under the North Sea Region Programme has been made availabe online.

On the website www.aquarius-nsr.eu you can find several interesting and informative videos. Look under "news".

A paper with the main findings and lessons learned from the European Commission audit to the UK is now availabe online.

The presentations of the DiPol Final Conference are available for download from the project's website.

"Maritime Human Resource Management" published by the NMU project partner Maritime Development Center of Europe (MDCE) - a student text book provides a research based learning platform for bachelor students at maritime academies.

MP4 Making Places Profitable is pleased to announce that registration for its Stakeholder Workshop is now open.  There will be five workshops, each covering aspects of placemaking and long term sustainable placekeeping under the five project themes of governance, policy, partnership, finance and evaluation.

If you are interested in joining us for our free workshops, please visit www.mp4-interreg.eu and download our invitation which includes detailed information about the timetable, workshop content and registration details.  

Johannes Hahn, European Commissioner for Regional Policy, will be available for questions in a live webchat from 15-16 on Tuesday 18 October.

The Maritime Development Center of Europe has recently published a report entitled, ”Maritime Transport: Education & Competence Development in a Maritime EU”.

The Seventh Call for Applications is now closed. A total of eleven full applications were submitted. Furthermore, the Programme has received two cluster applications.

Presentations held at the Lead Beneficiary Seminar No 5 on 27 and 28 September in Copenhagen are now available online.

Interact Point Viborg is looking for applicants for a position as Developer and Trainer in the area of finance. Application deadline is 19 October.

The Joint Transnational Conference will hold a workshop at the Open Days on 12 October in Brussels.

The centre of the village Barger Compascuum is now complete, using the Shared Space concept.  What was a busy crossroads governed by traffic and traffic lights, carving the village up and preventing good community relations. 

The traffic lights are now gone and what was a crossroads is now a village square where young people meet, children play and adults spend time.

Please visit the MP4 website to view a video which tells the story www.mp4-interreg.eu

Now the first issue of the e-harbours newsletter is available to download.

The North Sea Commission has announced two vacant positions as Vice-Chairs for politicians from NSC member regions, for the Innovation and Education Group and for the Sustainable Development Group.

DC NOISE is an Interreg IVB NSR project, it stands for Demographic Change: New Opportunities In Shrinking Europe. Since 2008, nine regions from five European countries have been working together to deal with the consequences of demographic change. An ageing society, fewer young people and population decline have an impact on the labour market, housing and service provision.