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France-Italy: resilience and post-crisis(es) recovery at the heart of future cooperation initiatives
October 2020
On 17 September, the concluding webinar of the Europ’Act capitalisation project entitled “What prospects for Franco-Italian cross-border cooperation initiatives in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region?” brought together more than 150 people. Organised by the Sud Region and run by the MOT, it aimed to take stock of six years of cooperation initiatives and to outline the Interreg programme for 2021-2027.
The experiences shared by the participants made it possible to arrive at a consensus that action to address the challenge of climate change should be the common theme of future programmes: a lever that will help to strengthen the resilience of Alpine and maritime territories of cooperation, while at the same time stimulating economic recovery.
“We are facing an urgent need to protect our Alpine areas, the sea and the coastline, which are particularly threatened by climate change. This great common challenge must be at the heart of our policies in order to support the transition to a low-carbon economy,” stressed Roger Roux, the Regional Councillor responsible for the Marittimo programme, in his closing words.
The discussions also focused on the need to reinforce cross-border governance and territorial strategies in order to support structuring projects such as integrated territorial and thematic plans (PITer and PITem), while also involving citizens more.
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