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8 November 2026
Innovation Circle Network Meets in Edinburgh to Explore AI, Energy and Future Collaboration
Edinburgh, Scotland | 10–11 November 2026
Innovation Circle Network (ICN) will bring together international partners in Edinburgh for its 2026 network meeting, hosted by Planning Aid Scotland.
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1 November 2026
GREEN SKILLS – Building Competences for a Sustainable Future
GREEN SKILLS is an international Erasmus+ project aimed at strengthening competences in sustainability, green transition, and social entrepreneurship,…
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2 October 2026
New ICN Homepage
The new website is now live
The new website is now live and available. A few adjustments and improvements are still being made, but the main features are already in place.
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2 September 2026
Borderdays BRIDGE — Nordic integration on rails
Nordic integration with a focus on transnordic transportation was the theme when the first Grensedagarna gathered both sides of the Swedish–Norwegian border at Morokulien.
A seamless 512 km rail link and 90 minutes between Oslo and Stockholm — the vision presented at the first Grensedagarna at Morokulien shows how transp…
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30 August 2026
Welcome to Edinburgh!
ICN 2026 - 10-11 November
Planning Aid Scotland will host the Innovation Circle Network gathering 2026. The program will focus on various projects and cooperation, with EU fund…
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19 August 2025
World cafe in Bialystok
ICN annual meeting in cooperation with FCIS 15 years anniversary
22-24 October there will be an event in Bialystok, focusing on social innovations and especially in Poland, an exploring the FCIS strategy 2030. FCIS…
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20 March 2025
ICN met in Berlin and paved the way forward !
The Berlin meeting showed a boost in activities for the ICN. At the moment there are about 10 projects which are already in the pipeline for developme…
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28 February 2025
We can !
Citizen participation in Jekabpils, Latvia
The association Lauku Partnerība Sēlija has launched the implementation of the "We Can" project in the rural areas of Jēkabpils Municipality. The proj…
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10 January 2025
Pomeil web page launched
A new webpage for the POMEIL Erasmus + project is recently launched. The Pomeil project is developing and includes partners from Greece, Poland, Eston…
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7 January 2025
Migration and entrepreneurship - POMEIL project webinar
Migration, jobs and entrepreneurship
16th January 2025 there is a webinar organised by the Innovation Circle Network and the POMEIL project(Erasmus+). The webinar will present the project…
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21 April 2025
What makes places resilient?
Türi - an Estonian town with brave projects
What are the key factors for regions to offer a prosperous and socially intact life? To find answers to the questions and have a closer look at projec…
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27 August 2024
ICN 2024 - TALLINN & TÜRI
Welcome to Estonia 16-18 October !
This year the annual conference is located to Tallinn and Türi in Estonia. Please find the preliminary program and registration link. The topics will…
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1 October 2024
POMEIL project is granted !
The Erasmus + decided to grant the POMEIL project, where Innovation Circle Network is one partner. The project will commence the 1th September 2024 an…
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23 May 2023
ECO-LEADERS IN NORWAY
Learning and sharing
An expert group from the Eco-leader project i Byalystok visited Norway in September. The purpose was to collect information from various institutions…
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12 September 2023
Experience exchange visit
From Zemgale to Trondheim
During the implementation of the EEA grant project "Entrepreneurship in Zemgale", six Latvian representatives from various NGOs and social enterprises…
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23 March 2023
Learning entrepreneurship
In the middle of October 2022 a group of officials from Latvia, Zemgale Planning Region, visited Norway. The purpose was to study how the teaching of…
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23 March 2023
Tasting Norway and promoting Latvia
Latvian entrepreneurs visited Norway
In the beginning of June 2022, a group of a group representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Zemgale region in Latvia visited Nor…
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5 November 2023
New board, new chairwoman, new ideas
The new ICN board chairwoman in an interview
Triin Pärna has lived all her life in the small town of Türi in Estonia. She started to work as a teacher before she found her professional happiness…
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