Malmo wins city star award

EUROCITIES member Malmo was awarded the ‘City Star Award’ at a ceremony in Brussels on 14 June 2012. The award is part of the European Commission’s annual Regio Star awards which recognise innovative and inspiring projects supported by EU regional policy.
Malmo was presented with the prize by Johannes Hahn, European commissioner for regional policy and Luc van den Brande, former president of the Committee of the Regions. The award recognised the city’s ‘South East Malmo’ project which was set up in 2008 to bring together public, private and non-profit actors to work towards sustainable growth in a number of depressed city districts. The city worked with a range of partners to identify projects and secure funding from the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
You can find out more about Malmo’s project by clicking here
For more information on the Regio Stars award, visit the European Commission DG REGIO website, here

Source: www.eurocities.eu