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  • The functional area of the Espace Catalan Transfrontalier gets under way

    TERRITORIES

    The functional area of the Espace Catalan Transfrontalier gets under way

    January 2024

    On 18 January in Girona, over 200 participants attended the presentation of the functional area of the Espace Catalan Transfrontalier (EsCaT), which brings together the province of Girona and the department of Pyrénées-Orientales to form one of the five functional areas of the POCTEFA 2021-2027 programme.

  • Editorial by Nicolas Garcia, 1st vice-president of the Pyrénées-Orientales Department, in charge of cross-border issues

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    Editorial by Nicolas Garcia, 1st vice-president of the Pyrénées-Orientales Department, in charge of cross-border issues

    September 2023

    "At a time when much work is being done on the concept of cross-border living areas, the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Diputació de Girona have agreed on the definition of a space for exchange and collaboration, shaped by a shared history, culture and language.

  • The Catalan Cross-Border Area co-builds its future with its citizens

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    The Catalan Cross-Border Area co-builds its future with its citizens

    September

    As the new "functional area" of the Spain-France-Andorra Interreg programme (POCTEFA 2021-2027), the Catalan Cross-Border Area will soon be funding cooperation projects worth over €4 million.

  • Catalonia-Pyrénées-Orientales: The creation of a cross-border working group on the reuse of wastewater

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    Catalonia-Pyrénées-Orientales: The creation of a cross-border working group on the reuse of wastewater

    June 2023

    On May 17th, 2023, a meeting between the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, and Père Aragones, president of Catalonia, in Barcelona, agreed on the creation of a cross-border working group, the aim of which will be to improve water management and help populations cope with drought.

  • Citizen participation to make a success of the cross-border ecological transition

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    Citizen participation to make a success of the cross-border ecological transition

    May 2023

    On May 2nd, 2023, the 4th meeting of the "Cross-border ecological transition" working group of the MOT network, which brought together about thirty participants around the question: "how to better involve citizens in the ecological transition of cross-border territories?", took place.

  • Joint participatory budget between Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Gipuzkoa: 17 projects selected!

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    Joint participatory budget between Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Gipuzkoa: 17 projects selected!

    July 2022

    In January, the Conseil départemental des Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa launched a new experiment: a joint participatory budget, called ideaiak, to encourage inhabitants to develop projects that create links between the two territories.

  • Cross-border bus services between Catalonia and the Pyrénées-Orientales Department made permanent

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    Cross-border bus services between Catalonia and the Pyrénées-Orientales Department made permanent

    April 2022

    The Occitanie Region, the Pyrénées-Orientales Department and the Generalitat de Catalunya have announced that five cross-border bus services launched as part of the European project "ConnECT" are to be made permanent.

  • A cross-border hospital faced with the crisis

    A cross-border hospital faced with the crisis

    September 2020

    At the “10 years of the EGTC Platform” (RT#3 of the Borders Forum), an emblematic example in Europe will be celebrated: the Cerdanya Cross-Border Hospital EGTC, with the participation of François Calvet, Senator for the Pyrénées-Orientales Department and President of its support committee.
At the height of the health crisis, this, the first cross-border hospital in Europe demonstrated the benefits and effectiveness of cross-border cooperation in the area of healthcare.

  • TERRITORIES

    Creation of a cross-border chamber of commerce

    November 2016

    The directors of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Perpignan, Girona, Lleida and Andorra have officially launched the cross-border Chamber of Commerce and Industry “Pirineus Med”: a new body which aims to develop exchanges and cross-border knowledge, and whose goal is to “establish trade relations in the cross-border territory”.

  • The MOT publishes a "methodological guidebook"

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    The MOT publishes a "methodological guidebook"

    February 2013

    In a dynamic context of reform - redefinition of cross-border policy and decentralisation process in France, preparation of the 2014-2020 programmes at European level - the MOT has produced a methodological guidebook aimed at improving articulation between cohesion policy, governance structures and cross-border territorial approaches.

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