SLIDE 1 The challenges of capacity building in cross- border cooperation and the TEIN / AEBR/ MOT partnership approach
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- Border regions represent 40% of EU territory and
30% of the EU’s population
- Cross-border territories represent key areas, where
both the positive effects of European integration as
Cross-border territories: the horizontal dimension of European integration
both the positive effects of European integration as well as the remaining obstacles to integration can best be studied
- Cross-border territories are regions of potential and
thus important catalysts for European Territorial Cohesion
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European support (INTERREG, EGTC,…) brought much progress
Concrete projects instead of nice ideas… Real partnerships with shared co-financing instead of nice meetings… Integrated programmes instead of stand-alone approaches… Innovative structures instead of institutional sclerosis…
CBC territories seen under a 360°perspective: From selective problem perception to a joint development of integrated potentials
SLIDE 5 Key-challenges of CBC policy-making still unresolved
- How to find the functional equivalence between different
politico-administrative systems?
- How to base future action on a sound knowledge
- f the cross-border territory and its specific needs?
- How to act without substantial competences with
most legal areas remaining with member states?
- How to turn cultural and linguistic differences into
New quality of CBC needs
- How to turn cultural and linguistic differences into
a productive interaction?
- How to find the right level of institutionalization,
how to integrate new actors from the non-public sector?
- How to define and measure the added-value of the
integrated cross-border action?
- How to overcome a limited project-approach and
develop sustainable policy approaches for the cross-border territory ?
CBC needs systemic capacity-building
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Levels of CBC capacity-building
1.) Knowledge generation and management on a 360°basis 2.) Subsidiarity and multi-level-governance (vertical and horizontal differentiation) 3.) Shared cross-border services with joint administrative competencies 4.) Legal flexibility (experimental and opening clauses, exemptions based on de minimis rules) 5.) Professionalization of actors, facilitation and active promotion 6.) Joint interest-representation (consultations, IA System of European Commission)
SLIDE 7 This requires multi-level-governance
- The EU-level anticipates impacts of future EU-initiatives
- n the cross-border territories (CBC category in the IA
system)
- The member states support CBC actively and allow for
flexible solutions to be developed on the borders flexible solutions to be developed on the borders (“horizontal subsidiarity”: setting the frame via direct coordination between neighboring states in relevant policy fields)
- Local and regional actors develop shared cross-border
services and transfer real competencies to joint cross- border bodies
SLIDE 8 A new actor for CBC capacity-building: TEIN as a strong and efficient network of interdisciplinary excellence on training, research and support - www.transfrontier.eu
TEIN covers a representative sample of European cross-border regions:
maritime borders, maritime borders,
new eastern borders, post-conflict borders, external borders,
- verseas borders between
- utermost regions.
SLIDE 9 The TEIN members:
- Exchange best practices
- Analyse the specificity of training and research
- n cross-border issues/in cross-border contexts
- Capitalize on and draw synergies from different territorial initiatives
- Work on new products like
– transferable training modules (training for cross-border project managers, etc.), – methods (need-analysis methods in cross-border regions, etc.), – methods (need-analysis methods in cross-border regions, etc.), – tools (impact assessment toolkit, etc.),
- Produce valuable research in this field and ensure that newest
research results are disseminated to actors involved in cross-border cooperation,
- Develop a European certification system on CBC training
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The added value of the TEIN / ABER / MOT partnership approach
Capacity building for CBC with actions at the level of the border (Euro-Institutes,…) supported by INTERREG A, and actions at EU level (TEIN, AEBR/CECICN SMART Cooperation report) in synergy with network programs such as Interact, in synergy with network programs such as Interact, INTERREG B and C etc…, but also actions at national level, with tools such as MOT, CSCE: Budapest Platform Making multi-level governance really work to support a new quality of cross-border cooperation in line with the architecture of Cohesion Policy 2014/2020
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Director Euro-Institut / TEIN Rehfusplatz 11 D-77694 Kehl
- Tel. +49-7851-7407-27
- Fax. +49-7851-7407-33
Mail: beck@euroinstitut.org
Thank you !
Mail: beck@euroinstitut.org www.euroinstitut.org TEIN coordinators: Anne THEVENET (thevent@euroinstitut.org) Sebastian RIHM (rihm@euroinstitut.org)
