Theses second Discussions offered an opportunity to debate on the following issue:
With effect from 1 January 2007, the system of support for cross-border, transnational and inter-regional cooperation actions in Europe becomes a strategic objective in its own right, that of “European territorial cooperation”.
This change clearly affirms the integration of cross-border procedures into an overall policy of “balanced, harmonious and sustainable development” of the European territory.This means that the implementation of new programmes and the eligibility of projects will be governed directly by overall development requirements, including through alignment with the Lisbon and Gothenburg objectives.
THE SPEECHES :
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Workshop 1 : What is the present context of cross-border cooperation and what will be the scope and the limits of the new strategic situation introduced by the European territorial cooperation objective?
Changes in cross-border cooperation since the introduction of the INTERREG programmes: an anachronism or the logical continuation for territorial cooperation in 2007. Historical analysis of the Upper Rhine as an example (in French)
Birte Wassenberg, Professor, Robert Schuman University (contemporary history of European integration), Strasbourg (France)
The Basel tri-national conurbation in the context of European cooperation (in French)
Martin Weber, Cross-border cooperation officer, Justizdepartement Basel-Stadt (Switzerland)
Frédéric Duvinage, General coordinator of the Basel Trinational Association (France)
Between community changes and local constants, a perspective on cross-border issues through the experience of the Pôle Européen de Développement (PED) (in French)
Christian Lamour, Research geographer at the CEPS/INSTEAD (Luxembourg)
The Educational co-operation as an answer to sustainable development : the example of France-Suriname co-operation (in French)
Isabelle Hidair, Social anthropologist and ethnologist, Institut Universitaire de la Formation des Maîtres (IUFM) (University institute for teacher training) of French Guiana (France)
Workshop 2 : What new opportunities do the changes in the community project support system offer to cross-border project workers? What constraints to they involve? What are the prospects for the future?
Ron Moys, Policy Manager, Kent County Council (Great Britain)
The challenges of maritime cross-border cooperation after 2006 (in French)
Thibaut Lespagnol, Assistant to the Head of the Europe Department of the Seine-Maritime department (France)
Metamorphoses of territorial cooperation, from geographical proximity to digital spaces (in French)
Michel Casteigts, Associate professor, University of Pau and the Pays de l'Adour (France)
‘Knowledge territories’, paradigms of cross-border cooperation (in French)
Andre Jean-Marc Loechel, Chairman of the European Network of Digital Cities
Workshop 3 : To what transformations of cross-border know-how and, eventually, professional activities are these changes leading?
Verena Hachmann, Research associate at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (Great Britain)
New trends in the European territorial cooperation programme and consequences on professional categories in the German-Dutch border area (in French)
Erich Tilkorn, Director of the regional and economic planning department of the Regierungsbezirk of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
Training together modest but operational operational cross-border actors : the experience of common training sessions between the Technological College of Sarreguemines, France and the University of Applied Sciences of Saarbrücken, Germany (in French)
Jean-Marie Fèvre, Professor, IUT de Moselle-Est (Management Science), Sarreguemines (France)
Facing the new European programmes period : the rationalization of cross-border cooperation management in the public administrations (in French)
Saverio Catella, consultant, Imperia (Italy)
The Territorial Agenda for the European Union
André Müller, Coordinator of the editorial group
CROSS-BORDER DISCUSSIONS
