Engaging Citizens in Cross-Border Cooperation

An open gateway to present Case Studies or final results of research projects related to borders and cross-border cooperation, creating an opportunity especially geared towards those that are directly involved at the regional and local level and lead cross-border projects.

Ekonomia i Prawo, 2020

Motivation: cooperation and partnership as an important tool that promotes cross-border integrations and stimulates the development of less developed border regions. Aim: to determine the importance of partnership and cooperation in border areas. The theoretical part will define the role of borders and co-determination in the context of cross-border cooperation and integration. The empirical part-concentrates on examples of cross-border cooperation, distinguishing two main situations: borders between member states of the EU and borders between the EU and neighbouring countries. Results: establishing transnational relations, and as a result partnership and cross-border integration, enables the flow and exchange of experience, knowledge and cooperation, thus affecting the economic development of cooperating regions.

Europa XXI

While a gradual increase in the permeability of the boundaries present in Europe was long seen as a linear process irreversible in nature, that situation in fact started to change around 2015. The process that then ensued reflected crises associated with influxes of refugees, the geopolitical situation in Ukraine, and then, from 2020 onwards, the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes might further be set against the two facts that there are, on the one hand, numerous locations in which cross-border or transboundary functional connections have become so strong that mechanisms hitherto acting in support of their development simply fail to suffice; as well as, on the other hand, many near-border areas that remain entirely peripheral. Pandemic circumstances made plain the inadequate level of institutional support extended to the development and functioning of transboundary functional areas, including as regards, their labour markets. And so to the articles brought together in the present edi...

This article sets out an overview of the Joseph Rowntree-funded Towards a New Common Chapter project, managed by the Centre for Cross Border Studies: its origins and rationale, and some of what it has revealed so far of attitudes among a number of grassroots community organisations from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland towards the notion of cross-border cooperation. However, neither this article nor the project at its current stage should be seen as definitive in terms of what they may tell us of general perceptions of and commitment to cross-border cooperation. Having completed two stages involving 10 community organisations and a number of related groups comprising 86 participants, the project is only now embarking on a third stage aimed at disseminating “A New Common Chapter for cooperation within and between these islands” drafted by the participating groups at the end of the second stage, and reproduced below. It will be during this process of interacting with other grassroots community organisations on the island of Ireland and seeking their views on the New Common Chapter that we will perhaps gain a wider understanding of the relative support for the notion of cross-border, North-South and East-West cooperation.

Alue ja Ymparisto, 2019

European integration has had a dual impact on border regions. On the one hand, borders were physically dismantled across most of the EU’s internal territory. On the other hand, they have become a fertile ground for territorial co-operation and institutional innovation. The degree of cross-border co-operation and organization achieved varies considerably from one region to another depending on a combination of various facilitating factors for effective cross-border co-operation, more specifically, economic, political leadership, cultural/identity and state formation, and geographical factors. This article offers a conceptual framework to understand the growth and diversity of cross-border regionalism within the EU context by focusing on the levels of and drives for co-operation.

The paper aims at exploring the partnership and cooperation issues in cross-border areas in European Union. The theoretical part of the papers is defining the role of the borders in the framework of the European Union enlarged and it includes a review of forms of cooperation and principles applicable in cross-border cooperation considered by the Council of Europe and the European Union or the Association of European Border Regions. Further there are identified in the specific literature important challenges and key points that are marking the cross-border partnerships. The last part of the paper is focusing on some examples of cross-border cooperation, making distinction between two main situations: the border between Member States and the borders between EU and neighboring countries. The economic functions of the international borders are changing from the traditional view to a new approach in the last decades. Usually the borders were associated with barriers to trade, quantitative and qualitative ones. That meant that the goods and services flows were passing the borders according to the legal regimes from the two countries that include payment of fees, presentation of documentation and compliance with the regulations, all of the formulated within the national interest. Due to the change of the economic, political and social framework, mostly accelerated in the last years, inside the European Union the borders, as economic barriers, became less significant following the main negotiation linked to the GATT/WTO and the EU enlargement. (Clement, 2006, pp. 50-51) Due to the erosion of the traditional functions of the borders some changes are likely to happen in the border regions of the countries. First of the changes will be an increase of the cross-border flow of trade including both the traditional export-import and the informal border transactions. (Clement, 2006, p. 52) In the internal EU cross-border areas can increase the flow of investments and

Polish Journal of Management Studies

The research problem of the paper concerns multiple catalysts for the development of cross-border cooperation in Euroregions, and in particular their impact on public institutions and NGOs. The aim of the paper is to determine whether in a specific Euroregion environment, cooperating public institutions and non-governmental organizations are affected by similar or different catalysts for the development of crossborder cooperation. Based on the literature review as well as desk research analyze, the theoretical part of the paper presents three key sets of catalysts for the development of cross-border cooperation, related to: the adopted model of cooperation; cooperating organizations; implemented cross-border activities. In order to solve the paper's research problem the qualitative research were conducted. The co-authors analysed the results of focus group interviews and a survey conducted on a group of 100 Polish and Czech respondents developing cross-border cooperation in the Polish and Czech part of the Beskidy Euroregion were used. The sets of catalysts: "the model of cooperation", "the resources and potential of partners" refer in a universal way to the processes of development of cross-border cooperation, while the third set-joint activities of partners is strongly correlated with Euroregional determinants. The analysis confirms that for nongovernmental organizations the strong catalysts for the development of cross-border cooperation are the resources and potentials of the cooperating organizations and joint activities of the partners, while the set including the cooperation model is not important. On the other hand, in the case of public institutions, the cooperation model and the resources and potentials of cooperating organizations can be considered weak catalysts, while the set including joint activities of partners is not important.

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Management, 2019

Introduction. Active engagement of Ukraine and its regions in the system of international cooperation in the context of the development of world integration processes is possible due to the use of cross-border cooperation tools. in the form of jointly developed programs of trade and economic, scientific-technical, environmental-ecological, cultural, historical-religious cooperation.The hypothesis of scientific research. Using cross-border cooperation will solve the problems of accelerating the socio-economic development of transboundary regions, improve the personnel infrastructure training of regions and the country as a whole in order to deepen cooperation with the EU, to solve urgent issues with the neighbors of the post-Soviet space; accelerate European integration processes.The purpose of the article is to develop theoretical propositions to substantiate the effective algorithm of cross-border cooperation development on the basis of synergistic combination of integration proces...