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Jan 16, 2025 | euneighbourseast.eu

The Regional Community Development Centre (CRDC), a youth organisation based in Cahul, Moldova, launched the ‘YELI – Youth Empowerment and Leadership Initiative’ in January with the support of the EU4Youth programme. The initiative targeted young leaders from the Cantemir, Leova, Ceadîr-Lunga, Căușeni, and Taraclia districts of Moldova. Over four days, 25 participants engaged in the ‘YELI’ Leadership Laboratory, developing community action plans aimed at fostering local impact. The primary objective was to equip them with leadership and civic engagement skills to drive positive changes in their communities. Following the intensive training, the teams presented their projects, with the most promising

Nov 11, 2024 | euneighbourseast.eu

The UN Climate Change Conference COP29 starts today in Baku, Azerbaijan, and runs until 22 November. At this global event, the European Union will work with international partners to meet the Paris Agreement targets to limit the rise in global average temperature to as close to 1.5C as possible. “Climate change continues to be an issue which knows no borders, and increasingly harms lives and livelihoods across Europe and around the world,” says a press release by the European Commission. Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra, will lead the EU negotiating team at COP29. He will be joined by Commissioner

Jun 5, 2024 | euneighbourseast.eu

“It’s not working. I have to quit. I’ll be humiliated and will lose a lot of money,” thought Sandro Liluashvili, the founder of Tene. His despair was hardly surprising: for a year, he had tried at least 500 to 600 times every day without success. Though he can hardly explain by what coincidence, his final, desperate attempt paid off. Sandro succeeded in creating the first Georgian USB cable. This happened in the early months of 2020. The history of Tene, a social enterprise created by Sandro, goes back to 2019. Tene undertakes the task of gathering plastic from the environment,

Mar 8, 2024 | euneighbourseast.eu

With communities under growing pressure in the face of multiple crises, gender equality is more important than ever. As the world marks International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March, ensuring the rights of women and girls across all aspects of life, and promoting female entrepreneurship is critical to ensure prosperous and just economies. The United Nations has proposed ‘Invest in women: Accelerate progress’ as the theme for this year’s IWD, and the European Union promotes women’s economic empowerment and women entrepreneurship across all the Eastern Partnership countries, funding a wide range of projects and initiatives that provide opportunities specifically geared toward women

Mar 8, 2024 | euneighbourseast.eu

Young Armenian entrepreneur Meri Vardanyan from Sevan, spent six months in the Spanish city of Cesantes with the EU-funded Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Exchange Programme, hosted by a female entrepreneur from Spain. Based on her experience, Meri said that the most essential thing the programme gave her was the ability to communicate appropriately with people. “I always knew what I was striving for, what I was going to achieve, what profession I was going to have,” says Meri, the young founder of the Sevan IT Plus start-up. Meri, who is now 27, remembers that when she was still at school,