SCHOOL
7 - 11 MARCH 2022
THREE COUNTRIES - ONE REGION
The Euregio Meuse-Rhine: your Region!
In the heart of Europe, five regions in three countries form the Euregio Meuse-Rhine. Home for more than four million people, the area offers exceptional career and lifestyle opportunities across borders: A rich cultural heritage, immense scientific potential, excellent universities and research & development hubs, future-oriented economic structures, scenic diversity, and long and direct experience of living and working together with European neighbours. Its central location and efficient transport infrastructure ensure easy access to the major European economic centres.
Open for students and Newcomers in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine
The youRegion-School
The youRegion-School offers you a weeklong unique opportunity to discover the EMR in a whole new way! Work together with international students from all over the Euregio in a Team. Guided by euregional practitioners and experts, you will experience first-hand the political and social background and connections of the EMR. Visit euregional state of the art research facilities with us and learn more about the innovative cross-border collaborations in the region. Deepen your knowledge of future economic opportunities and challenges with concrete cases and examples. complemented by euregional networking opportunites, borrel and other surprises, the youRegion School offers a unique euregional experience.
About the project
Our enormous scientific, economic and cultural potential is one of the key factors in the structural transformation of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine. The Interreg EMR V-A project youRegion aims to facilitate this process by establishing and promoting a euregional welcome culture – not only to attract new, highly skilled employees and their families, but to establish the EMR itself as a place to settle down.
With your expertise on the issues of well-being, innovation and cooperation in a cross-border context and you want to demonstrate your interdisciplinary skills in a practical setting in our Euregio Meuse-Rhine, the youRegion-School awaits you!
Your vision for youRegion
You are a student in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine? You are interested in European cooperation and integration? You want to work in an international setting and team on concrete challenges and cases?
Then apply now for the youRegion-School!
The interdisciplinary and hybrid youRegion-School will take place from 7-11 March 2022 with events spread all over the Euregio Meuse-Rhine. The event will be concluded by the youRegion Student Summit two weeks later.
HOW AND WHERE
The youRegion-School is planned as a hybrid format. During the week we will visit different Research and Innovation campuses and experience euregional cooperation first hand in Hasselt, Heerlen and Aachen as well as virtual sessions with euregional professionals and experts. The youRegion-School will be concluded with a festive closing event as a summit in the spirit of youRegion.
During the week you will work in an international Team to elaborate your vision about the EMR and youRegion under euregional guidance.
REQUIREMENTS
The program is aimed at Bachelor’s or Master’s-students studying in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine. The youRegion-School follows an interdisciplinary approach and intends to deepen the euregional knowledge and skills of the participants. English is required. Mobility in the EMR would be an asset. We expect that the Corona regulations then in force will be respected and complied with.
The program is free of charge for the participants.
BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATION
- See the Euregio in a whole new light and discover the opportunities of cross border cooperation
- Strengthen your intercultural and language competences
- Put your skills to the test and work on concrete euregional cases and challenges
- Get in touch with students, professionals, and companies from the whole EMR
- Enjoy the social and cultural program and make youRegion your region!
SCHEDULE
Please note:
This programme is a work-in-progress and might be subject to change. We will update this page accordingly.
MONDAY, 07 MARCH
TUESDAY, 08 MARCH
WEDNESDAY, 09 MARCH
THURSDAY, 10 MARCH
FRIDAY, 11 MARCH
youRegion Student Summit, 25 MARCH
MONDAY, 07 MARCH
Place:
PXL-Congress: Room Corbu/Montessori
Elfde Liniestraat 23A
3500 Hasselt
⇒ directions & info
Introduction:
Welcome to youRegion
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Get together with your teammates in Hasselt at the PXL-Congress. There you will be introduced to the finer points of the EMR and youRegion by the Director of the EMR. Experience intercultural differences in our workshops and form your Team for the week. Afterwards join the tour and networking borrel around the PXL University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
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Programme
10:00
Welcoming and introduction to the youRegion-School
Jan Schliewert (Euregio Maas-Rhein) and Erwin Vanroye (PXL Hasselt)
10:15
Welcome speech
Tbd
10:30
Keynote and Lecture: The Euregio Meuse-Rhine
Michael Dejoze (Director EMR)
11:30
Team – Selection
Erwin Vanroye (PXL Hasselt)
12:00
Lunch Break
13:00
Impulse: Feeling welcome in youRegion
Julia Reinold (Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility (ITEM) / United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT))
13:10
Interactive Workshop – Intercultural Competences in the EMR
Ute Schürings and Elena Schmitz
15:00
Break
15:30
Selection of Team-Challenges and TeamWork
17:00
Borrel and Networking – Connecting in youRegion
TUESDAY, 08 MARCH
Place:
Virtual (Microsoft Teams)
The Euregio Meuse-Rhine
Diversity, demographics, and cooperation – challenges in a cross-border region
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Euregional experts will give you a deeper insight into the demographics and the diversity of the EMR. Learn more about cross border cooperation via concrete examples from euregional projects and institutions. Collaborate under guidance in your team to enhance your challenge.
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Programme
9:00
Welcome
tbd
9:15
Lecture: Would you stay or would you go? (Im)mobility behaviour and other demographic challenges in the EMR.
Inge Hoojien (Regional Capital, Socio-Economic Knowledge Institute / Neimed, Research Centre for Employability Zuyd University of Applied Sciences)
10:15
Break
10:30
Lecture: Cross-border Governance, competences, stakeholders –
How to analyse the cross-border potential of a certain policy field?
Martin Unfried (Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross-border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM)
11:30
Group work on challenge
13:00
End of session
WEDNESDAY, 09 MARCH
Place:
Brightlands Smart Services Campus
Smedestraat 2
6411 CR Heerlen (NL)
⇒ directions & info
Economics, innovation and smart connections in the EMR
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Visit the innovative Brightlands Smart Services Campus in Heerlen with us to learn about economics and innovation in a cross-border setting. Discover the challenges and benefits of international cooperation in the light of practical cases of SMEs in the EMR and get to know professionals and experts from the field. Join us afterwards for drinks and bites and networking opportunities.
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Programme
10:00
Welcoming
10:15
Impulse: Economy in the EMR
Carine Van Hove (EMR Policy Officer – Economy)
10:30
Lecture: Cross-Border Economics in the EMR
Tbd (HS Zuyd)
12:00
Lunch Break
13:00
A case study – SMEs in the EMR
tbd
14:30
Break
15:00
Group Work on challenge
16:30
Borrel and Networking
THURSDAY, 10 MARCH
Place:
Virtual (Microsoft Teams)
Landscapes, Cities and Tourism in the EMR
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Participate in our virtual sessions about the landscapes, cities and tourism in the EMR. Learn how a cross-border metropolitan region works. Experience the opportunities and obstacles of this cross-border living space through the concrete example of tourism in the EMR.
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Programme
9:00
Welcoming
9:15
Impulse: Tourism in the EMR
Marc Genten (EMR Policy Officer – Tourism)
9:30
Lecture: The EMR as a Tourism region: Opportunities and Challenges – Economics and retreat for citizens?
tbd (PXL Hasselt)
10:30
Break
10:45
Keynote: Tourism in Practice – “Inclusive tourism and universal design as a business transformer for accommodation providers and companies”
tbd (PXL Hasselt)
11:30
Group work on challenges
13:00
End of session
FRIDAY, 11 MARCH
Place:
FH Aachen – University of Applied Sciences
Eupener Straße 74
52064 Aachen (D)
⇒ directions & info
Translate Your Ideas in a Viable Business Model & Make a Pitch
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On the last day, meet in Aachen where you will translate your ideas in a viable business model and finalize your pitch. Learn how to sketch a viable business model and how to best structure and sell your pitch with expert guidance from the FH Aachen. Work with your team on your pitch for the youRegion Gala. After an intriguing week of euregional cooperation and experiences, join us at the renowned Café Liège for a well-deserved piece of cake and drinks!
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Programme
10:00
Welcome
10:15
Lecture: How to Translate Your Ideas in Viable Business Models / Make a Pitch
Marco Motullo and Tobias Frauenrath (FH Aachen)
11:30
Group work on challenge
12:30
Lunch Break
13:30
Continuation group work under supervision
16:30h
Aftermath: Have a piece of cake you’ve earned it!
(Café Liége)
youRegion Student Summit, 25 MARCH
Place:
Centre Charlemagne
Katschhof 1
52062 Aachen
⇒ directions & info
youRegion Student Summit
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Gather with your team and present your pitch in a sophisticated ambience to our expert jury. Be awarded with your diploma and join us afterwards for a leisurly evening with drinks and networking to fine tunes to share and deepen your euregional experiences.
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Programme
Moderated by: Tbd
16:30
Welcoming
16:45
Presentation of challenges
18:15
Break
18:30
Discussion “youRegion – Opportunities in the EMR”
tbd
19:00
Diploma and award ceremony
19:30
School’s out!
Get-together with borrel and tunes
Apply now!
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APPLICATION FOR NEWCOMERS AND STUDENTS FROM OTHER UNIVERSITIES
Newcomers or students without an active inscription in one of the universities above please register via email to janschliewert@euregio-mr.eu.
PXL Hasselt
FH Aachen
Students of FH Aachen University are kindly asked to submit their application directly to
Marco Motullo via motullo@fh-aachen.de.
Please Make sure to include all of the following elements within your email:
- your personal data (Name, Date Of Birth, Gender)
- your Discipline / field of studies
- a motivation letter
- a CV
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