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TERRITORIES
Greater Region: "UniGR", a European centre of skills and resources
March 2018As part of the "UniGR - Centre for Border Studies" project, the six member universities (Kaiserslautern, Liège, Lorraine, Luxembourg, Saarland and Trier) of the University of the Greater Region (UniGR) are going to set up a "European centre of skills and resources in border studies" with international visibility.
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EUROPE
Meeting of Anne Sander's group on higher education and research
March 2018The eighth meeting of the European Parliament's working group on cross-border cooperation, chaired by the MEP Anne Sander, Vice-President of the MOT, took place on 28 February and was devoted to the topic of higher education and research.
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TERRITORIES
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: Optimising cross-border relations
March 2018"The regions and countries that border the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region are very attractive to its inhabitants, businesses and territorial authorities." The Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regional Economic, Social and Environmental Council has attempted to understand the dynamics at work in the neighbouring territories and their impact on the region, in an 84-page document entitled "From good neighbourly relations to a development strategy".
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EUROPE
DG REGIO: Call for proposals on cross-border obstacles
February 2018"b-solutions" is an initiative to tackle legal and administrative border obstacles/difficulties along EU internal borders promoted by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO), as one of the actions proposed in the referred Communication "Boosting growth and cohesion in EU border regions", adopted by the Commission on 20 September 2017.
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EUROPE
Launch of the "Boosting EU Border Regions" platform
February 2018The European Commission has launched its new online platform "Boosting EU border regions" dedicated to cross-border stakeholders. This new tool is part of the 10 measures proposed in the Commission Communication "Boosting Growth and Cohesion in EU Border Regions".
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NATIONAL LEVEL
Cross-border relations at the heart of Franco-German diplomacy
February 2018In reponse to Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel’s desire to sign a new Elysée Treaty in 2018, and on the occasion of its 55th anniversary, the German Bundestag and the French National Assembly, meeting in a joint session on 22 January, adopted a resolution inviting the two governments to renew this treaty in order to “deepen the Franco-German partnership” and “launch a new dynamic”.
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TERRITORIES
What place for the cross-border citizen in building Europe?
February 2018Two workshops and a study trip with local stakeholders were organised around this topic in the territories of SaarMoselle and Flanders-Dunkirk-Côte d’Opale, as part of the work of IHEDATE (Higher Education Institute for European Development and Planning - Institut des hautes études de développement et d'aménagement des territoires en Europe).
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MOT
Mission on the Haïti-Dominican Republic border
February 2018The situation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic is unique in the world: it is the only case in which the entire land area of two states is located on a single shared island. In 2016 and 2017, the MOT was commissioned to develop cross-border cooperation on this atypical border.
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TERRITORIES
French-Swiss innovation fair in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
February 2018The "Rencontres franco-suisses de l’économie et de l’innovation en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes", an ‘economy and innovation fair’, was held for the first time in Lyon on 15 January 2018.
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TERRITORIES
The Basel tram network extended to Saint-Louis!
February 2018On 10 December 2017, the elected representatives of the Basel trinational conurbation had the pleasure of opening tram line 3 linking the centre of Basel-Stadt (CH) to the railway station of Saint-Louis (F). With this tram line it is now possible to travel from Saint-Louis station to Basel city centre in under 15 minutes.
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TERRITORIES
Grand Est region: study on cross-border obstacles
February 2018The Regional Economic, Social and Environmental Council (Ceser) of the Grand Est region has published a study looking at the reduction of cross-border obstacles in the Grand Est region.
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PUBLICATION
Cross-border cooperation in Europe: beyond the scars of history
February 2018This special edition of RECERC, online publication of the Institut Franco-Catalan Transfrontalier, focuses on the historical aspects and the evolution of cross-border cooperation.
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EUROPE
Public consultation on EU funds in the area of cohesion
January 2018In 2018, the Commission will make comprehensive proposals for the next generation of programmes for the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework, which is the EU's long–term budget. This consultation (launched until March 2018) is an integral part of the process and its objective is to collect the views of all interested parties.
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MOT
International conference in Ottawa
February 2018The international research network “Borders in Globalization” (BIG) held its second international conference in Ottawa between 6 and 8 December 2017. The programme is an opportunity for dialogue between different regions of the world (Europe, North America, Africa) on the theme of border management.
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MOT 20TH ANNIVERSARY
Building cross-border territories: Europe for citizens
December 2017On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, on 30 November and 1 December in Brussels the MOT organised a European conference on the topic “Building cross-border territories: Europe for citizens”, which brought together more than 230 participants: attendance figures reflecting the importance of the issues!
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MOT 20TH ANNIVERSARY
The MOT has published a new brochure: "Cross-border territories: Europe's laboratory"
December 2017To mark the 20th anniversary of its creation, the MOT has produced a publication entitled "Cross-border territories: Europe's laboratory". It came out at the time of the MOT's European conference "Building cross-border territories: Europe acting for its citizens" which took place on 30 November and 1 December 2017 in Brussels.
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EUROPE
The Cohesion Alliance
December 2017Set up thanks to cooperation between the European Committee of the Regions and the main associations of European cities and regions, the Cohesion Alliance (#CohesionAlliance) argues that account should be taken of the needs of European territories in the European Union's budget after 2020, through stronger and more effective cohesion policy for each of the EU's regions.
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PUBLICATION
Cross-border employment dynamics in Europe and France
December 2017The territorial observatory provides, in the form of factsheets, a set of analyses and an overview of the state of France's territories.
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EUROPE
Seventh meeting of the parliamentary working group on cross-border cooperation
December 2017On 29 November, Anne Sander MEP, hosted around a breakfast the seventh meeting of her parliamentary working group on cross-border cooperation.
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MOT
Strasbourg's "Rendez-vous européens"
December 2017On 24 November, the MOT made a contribution during a workshop organised as part of Strasbourg's "Rendez-vous européens".
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TERRITORIES
The "Temporelles" Congress 2017 : It's time to go beyond our borders!
December 2017On 16 November, the MOT took part in the 2017 edition of the "Temporelles" organised by Tempo Territorial and the Lille European Metropolis.
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FRANCE
13th Antilles-Guiana regional cooperation conference
December 2017The 13th Antilles-Guiana regional cooperation conference took place in Pointe-à-Pitre on 15-17 November 2017.
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FRANCE
10th anniversary of the Cross-Border Jura Arc Forum
November 2017The Cross-Border Jura Arc Forum celebrated the 10th anniversary of its creation on Saturday 21 October 2017 at the town hall of Le Russey in the Haut-Doubs Department.
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