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Get to know this year's Local Initiatives!

How are different initiatives and programmes contributing to local development around OECD countries? Find out more about all the programmes featured at this year's PLACES Live: Local Initiatives Marketplace.

Meet the exhibitors during the PLACES Live sessions at the Forum:

24 September, 11.30-13.00, Malmö Live - 2nd floor (Next to the Cube)

25 September, 8.30-10.00, UN City - Lounge area (ground floor)

25 September, 11.45-13.00 UN City - Lounge area (ground floor)

WeRIn project (Women Entrepreneurs in Inclusive Regional Ecosystems)

WeRin is a project funded by the ERASMUS+ Knowledge Alliance programme during 2020-2024. Partners ranged across 6 European countries (Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Norway, The Netherlands and Turkey). It aims at increasing the engagement and participation of female graduate entrepreneurs; promoting and embedding inclusive entrepreneurship education;...

Norway Unlimited

Norway Unlimited is a competence-driven entity with a focus on place-based social entrepreneurship. Our vision is that residents of Norway who have an idea for a solution to social and environmental challenges in their local environment should have access to a place where they can get support and tools to further develop the idea and try it out....

Centre for Oresund Region Studies & Centre for Modern European Studies

This is a joint presentation of two initiatives working to promote collaboration between universities in the Oresund region: CEMES and CORS. • CEMES (Centre for Modern European Studies): An Öresund Network of Lund University, Malmö University and the University of Copenhagen The task of the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES) is to...

GET-AHED: Green Education and Transition

The GET-AHED project is an Erasmus+ funded project supporting the role of “soft” infrastructure in driving local, social and economic transformation through individuals and institutions. GET-AHED stands for “Green Education and Transition - A Higher Education Digital Buddy” and was launched in January 2023, the project has 5 European partners and...

MTU Student Enterprise Camp.

The MTU Student Enterprise Camp is a regional initiative funded by the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and delivered by Munster Technological University, supporting youth development for students aged 13-17years in the areas of entrepreneurship and employment and skills. Indicating the initiatives sustainability and impact, the programme...

Öresund Metro (Malmö - Copenhagen Metro)

In 2035 the new metro line M5 will open i Copenhagen. There is possibilities to connect a line to Malmö in the project. With an Öresund Metro, an extra one million people will have a commuting distance within an hour across the Öresund. Travel time between Malmö and Copenhagen would be halved to around 20 minutes. Faster travel stimulates jobs,...

SILVER SMEs

The highly successful SILVER SMEs is a regional cooperation project, studies the strengths, weaknesses, investigates the threats, and explores the opportunities and innovative initiatives in the growing silver economy. Funded by Interreg Europe, the project has 9 partners across 7 countries. It was launched in June 2018 and ran for five years....

The People's Transition: Community-led Development for Climate Justice

The People’s Transition is a participative decision-making model developed by TASC—Ireland's Think-tank for Action on Social Change—that views climate action as an enabler of local development. The model brings together climate justice and local development and gives people and communities a voice in, and ownership of, the transition to a...