In connection with the project implemented under the Interreg Europe programme entitled SLOWDOWN, the fourth stakeholder (local stakeholders) meeting took place on 20 January 2026 in Lábatlan, at the Dunamente Eco Centre.
Ister – Granum EGTC is participating as a lead partner in the SLOWDOWN project, which has received funding from the Interreg-Europe program. The project focuses on slow tourism.
On 7 May 2025, the first thematic workshop of the BorderLabsCE project took place in Dresden, focusing on innovative tools and methods for cross-border spatial planning.
Ister – Granum EGTC is participating as a partner in the international project BorderLabs CE (CE0200537), implemented with the support of the Interreg Central Europe Programme.
Ister – Gramun EGTC is the lead partner in the SLOWDOWN project funded by the Interreg-Europe programme. The project focuses on slow tourism.
From 19 to 21 November, the picturesque Spanish town of Caravaca de la Cruz, in the region of Murcia, Spain, hosted the second interregional thematic workshop of the SlowDown project (ITW2), an initiative supported by the Interreg Europe programme and co-funded by the European Union, bringing together representatives from nine European countries – Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, Finland, Latvia, Ireland, France, Romania and Spain – to promote sustainable tourism strategies.
The project focuses on slow tourism. The kick-off meeting of the project involving partners from France, Italy, Finland, Romania, Spain, and Ireland took place between 18 and 20 June 2024. It was the Ister-Granum EGTC hosting the partners.
In the joint organisation of the municipalities of Ipolydamásd and Párkány and the Ister-Granum EGTC, the bicycle path development connecting Párkány – Helemba and Ipolydamásd – Letkés was handed over on November 15, 2023.
After decades of preparation, a bridge will again link Ipolydamásd in Hungary and Chľaba in Slovakia.
Thanks to the joint tender of Ister-Granum EGTC, the Ministry of Construction and Transport and Hungarian Public Road Co., a new border crossing point has been inaugurated at the Slovak-Hungarian Danube section shortening by tens of kilometres the distance between the Mária Valéria Bridge between Esztergom and Štúrovo and the Erzsébet Bridge connecting Komárom and Komárno, thus making it possible to reach the settlements on both banks.