Cross-Border Cooperation – tool for increasing social cohesion

Cross-border cooperation has taken many forms over time at the European level. Thus, the first forms of cross-border cooperation at the European level were the Euroregions or other more recent forms, the European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation EGTC. All forms of cross-border cooperation at European level have been shown to be functional, achieving their proposed objectives, demonstrating cross-border cooperation and their effectiveness, but there are also examples that have not been proven to be functional. Thus, at the level of the European Union, through specific EU policies, institutions, programs and specific instruments that touch the field of cross-border cooperation, special attention has been shown in the direction of improving this field, so that all the combined elements offer the population that is in a space cross-border a high quality of life in its area.

Academic aim:

Operationalization of specific concepts: Cross-border cooperation, Economic, social and territorial cohesion, specific cross-border institutions, as well specific programs that operate at the cross-border level. Thus, once familiar with the specific concepts, methods, specific tools, the students develop skills in the direction of proposing solutions and improvements regarding the efficiency of the dimension of increasing social cohesion at the CBC level.

Learning objectives

The course aims to develop skills and competencies specific to the specialist in the field of cross-border cooperation: inter-relationship, the ability to analyze, interpret, research subjects that touch the cross-border area, to know the programs and policies that interfere with this field so that they can create associations and correlations to demonstrate the growth of social cohesion at a cross-border level.

Structure of the course:

The objective and importance of the field of cross-border cooperation in the direction of increasing social cohesion.

Defining the concept of Frontiers vs Boundaries

Internal borders vs External borders of the EU

CBC cross-border cooperation

Levels of cross-border cooperation

Forms of cross-border cooperation: Euroregions and EGTC

Euroregions: Bihor-Hajdu Bihar Euroregion, Carpathian Euroregion

EGTC cross-border cooperation groups: Lille – Kortrjk – Tournai

Eurometropolis (LKT)

Regional Policy

Cohesion Policy

Social, economic and territorial cohesion

Territorial cooperation programs

Cross-border cooperation at the Romanian-Hungarian border: the period 2004-2021

Case studies: The role and importance of cross-border cooperation programs in increasing social cohesion at the level of the Romanian-Hungarian border

Course support:

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