The Azuay Forum will bring together experts and 'decision makers' of global tourism.
The province of Azuay (Ecuador) will become, between 2 and 4 July 2026, the epicenter of the debate on territorial tourism management with the celebration of the Annual Assembly of ORU Fogar and a forum on tourism. The event will bring together international experts and decision-makers from Europe, America and Africa to outline new strategies for regional economic growth...
European Union Vice President embraces the “Right to Stay”.
The European Commission, under the strong leadership of Executive Vice President Raffaele Fitto, has officially launched the "Right to Stay" strategy, a claim that places territorial balance and the fight against depopulation at the heart of the European project. From ORU Fogar we celebrate this historic turn of the European cohesion policy...
The regions are calling for a territorial management of migration in the UN.
At the International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) 2026, the key United Nations event to evaluate the Global Compact for Migration, regional governments have raised their voices to demand a paradigm shift. At a critical moment when the UN is reviewing its global policies, the prefect of Azuay Province (Ecuador), Juan Cristobal Lloret, and the president of Dagana Department (Senegal), Ababacar Kalifa Ndao, have presented a united front to defend that migration cannot be managed from the national level alone...
President of Dagana, Senegal, assumes the chairmanship of ORU Fogar’s Working Group on Cooperation.
In a strategic move to dynamize the territorial development agenda, ORU Fogar’s Working Group on Development Cooperation has formalized a comprehensive restructuring of its governance. After years of leadership by Catalonia, the group begins a new stage under the presidency of the Department of Dagana (Senegal) and the technical secretariat of the Province of Córdoba (Argentina)...
AEBR promotes a barrier-free Europe with the new b-solutions 3.0 call.
Living or working in a border area often brings administrative complications that do not exist within countries. To address this, the Association of European Border Regions, AEBR, has launched a new phase of the b-solutions initiative. This project, managed directly by AEBR under the impetus of the European Commission, seeks to identify and resolve in a definitive way the legal and bureaucratic problems that hinder daily life within the territorial boundaries of the Union...
AEBR leads the extension of the program Interreg Volunteer Youth until 2027.
The Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) coordinates the new phase of the Interreg Volunteer Youth program known as IVY following the decision of the European Commission and DG REGIO to extend its duration until the end of December 2027. As the main managing body, ARFE is leading a strategic review process to adapt youth volunteering to the objectives of Cohesion Policy and to the current needs of cross-border projects across Europe...
Democracy, Territory, and Food: A Regional Agenda from Mercosur.
Matías Sotomayor, Parlamentario del MERCOSUR. "In a world crossed by multiple crises—climatic, economic, social, and geopolitical—food security has once again taken a central place on the global agenda. For South America, the challenge is not just to produce food; the true challenge is to guarantee the human right to food, strengthen our peoples' food sovereignty, and ensure that our production systems contribute to the sustainable development of our territories..."
