The Summer General Assembly meeting and 70th Anniversary celebration of the European Confederation of the Woodworking Industries (CEI-Bois) was a two-days event under the slogan “The Future is Bright – the Future is Wooden” in Skellefteå (Northern Sweden). The city of Skellefteå is the living example of the European Bauhaus concept where the growth strategy

Danube regions and cities face major societal transitions regarding demographic change. The rural exodus is caused by better employment opportunities for the youth and the prospect of a better life in cities. The movement of labor leads to depopulated areas leaving an aging and increasingly unskilled population behind. A multi-level participative governance approach and new