PURE HUBS & Friends



For four years we have been implementing the PURE Hubs project, together with 17 project partners from 4 North West European countries (United Kingdom,
 Netherlands, Germany, Belgium), with the aim to reconnect urban areas and their peri-urban (and rural) hinterlands and stimulate urban – rural entrepreneurship. 

15 pilot hubs provided the necessary experiences to develop the PURE Hubs strategy on how to create urban – rural ‘hubs’, which provide rural (or peri-urban) products and services to meet urban needs and make life in our cities better and more attractive.
  
   

WE ARE VERY PLEASED TO INVITE YOU TO OUR FINAL CONFERENCE ‘PURE HUBS & FRIENDS’. 

 		  
THIS FINAL CONFERENCE HAS THREE OBJECTIVES (SEE THE ATTACHED PROGRAMME): 
  1. To share our PURE Hubs strategy and lessons learnt
  2. To work on new proposals for the 2014-2020 INTERREG NWE Programme 
  3. To enjoy this final PURE Hubs meeting amongst PURE Hubs partners and friends
For the second objective ‘to work on new proposals for the 2014 – 2020 INTERREG NWE Programme’ we are preparing a ‘call for proposals’ for which we will send you a short template later. With this template you can send in ideas for new projects to be discussed during our Final Conference.


  

Sent us
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Join us! SUBCRIBE before 29th may!

  
 
 PRACTICAL HOTEL INFORMATION:

We made arrangements to stay at the Park in Hotel in Leuven for Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th. Prices: € 135 per night (single) and € 145 per night (double) including breakfast.

We want to ask you to make your own reservation. You can do this by booking online at www.parkinn.com/hotel-leuven using the code ‘PURHUB’; to be registered on the website:

  •   Date of arrival and departure, in the purple field
  •   Then click ‘more options’
  •    And fill in ‘PURHUB’ in the field ‘promotional code’ (do not select ‘rate type’)

 

In case you want to stay extra days (so apart from Wednesday 17th or Thursday 18th) you have to make the reservation by email or telephone. The contact person is Cindy Feytens, cindy.feytens@rezidorparkinn.com or sales.leuven@rezidorparkinn.com;
 T: +32 16 61 66 00.

 

You can also use these contact details for normal reservations, always using the code ‘PURHUB’.

 

 

HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL IN LEUVEN!

 book before
25th May 























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before 29th may!

 



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Programme

Thursday June 18th 
13.30    Welcome at the venue of Boerenbond in Leuven
14.00   Short introduction by PURE Hubs partners and friends
14.30   Presentation of final PURE Hubs strategy and lessons learnt
15.30   Break
16.00   Introduction to the INTERREG NWE Programme by the Caroline
Ruebens,Flanders’ contact point for the INTERREG NWE Programme
16.30  
Presentation of ideas for new projects for the INTERREG NWE Programme
Discussion in groups on ideas for new projects
18.00   End of the first conference day 
19.00   Formal Dinner 

Friday June 19th 
09.00    Continue discussion in groups on ideas for new projects 
11.00
 
Final arrangements PURE Hubs (just for Pure Hubs project partners)
  • State of affairs financial and outputs/results
  • Final progress report and claim
  • Question  
 12.00   
Closure and lunch (with possibility to take away lunch bag for early leavers)