Vitality. Community. Diligence. Sustainability.

Whythe?

Vitality

Bees were found in fossils between 20 and 25 million years old. Until today, bees have lived on various continents of the world.

Community

Bees live in dynamic communities, the so-called families. They all work hard together for the common good of the family.

Diligence

Every day bees have many tasks to do, so they must be hardworking, meticulous, well-organized and excellent communicators.

Sustainability

Bees are not only the symbol of diligence, but also cleanliness and orderliness. They themselves create many useful products not only for themselves but also for the nature and human beings, thus supporting the sustainability of various ecosystems.

What we aim

1. Smarter and democratic values-based community identity

  • Enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies;
  • Reaping the benefits of digitization for citizens, companies and governments;
  • Enhancing growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs;
  • Developing skills for smart specialization, industrial transition and entrepreneurship;
  • Fostering the integrated social, economic and environmental development, cultural heritage and security in urban areas through community -led local development.

2. Sustainable and greener lifestyle

  • Promoting efficiency measures;
  • Promoting renewable energy and developing smart energy solutions;
  • Promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and disaster resilience;
  • Promoting the transition to a circular economy;
  • Promoting sustainable multimodal urban mobility;
  • Developing sustainable, climate resilient national, regional and local cross-border mobility.

3. More engaged and inclusive society of the future

  • Enhancing the effectiveness of labor markets and access to quality employment through developing social innovation and infrastructure;
  • Ensuring equal and quality based access and to the public services and individual accommodation based on a proven need in religious, physical, mental or emotional, academic or employment related communities;
  • Enhancing the role of culture and tourism in economic development, social inclusion and social innovation;
  • Improving access to inclusive and quality services in education, training and lifelong learning through developing infrastructure, including by fostering resilience for distance and on-line education and training;
  • Increasing the socioeconomic integration of marginalized communities and disadvantaged groups, through integrated measures;
  • Implement the capacity of the society practices to ensure the respect to human rights, diversity, cultural traditions, and the rights of communities in order to ensure the social justice for all.

Civic Bee does

CivicBee supports

cooperation projects between local, regional and interregional policy actors, dedicated to exchange, capacity building and transfer of good practices and innovative approaches with the specific aim to prepare the integration of the lessons learnt from the past into the future cooperation for the better policies and actions implementation.

CivicBee facilitates

policy learning services and capitalization of local and regional policy good practices on an ongoing basis – to enable regional level actors from across the EU to tap into relevant experiences and practices whenever they need them to strengthen their policies.

Target groups

Civic Bee targets regional and local policy actors. This includes national, regional and local authorities as well as other relevant bodies responsible for the definition and implementation of regional development policies.

The beneficiaries of the Civic Bee are public bodies and bodies governed by public law. Private non-profit bodies may also be beneficiaries under certain conditions.

Small medium enterprises (SMEs) are also an important target group in the context of several specific objectives and, when relevant, they are encouraged to participate in the activities of Civic Bee actions and benefit from the exchange of experience.