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"Small Towns of Tomorrow" goes beyond borders
December 2022
The MOT provides tailored support to several territories to facilitate the emergence of projects and links with national and European partners as part of the "Small Towns of Tomorrow" programme of the Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion).
Launch of a mission in Montmédy (Franco-Belgian border)
At the request of the town of Montmédy and the Community of Communes of the Pays de Montmédy , the MOT began its third support mission under this programme at the end of October!
The aim is to provide the territory with an in-depth diagnosis of its cross-border issues in order to identify the areas of cross-border cooperation contributing to the revitalization and central role of Montmédy.
The purpose of the assignment is to draw up a cross-border roadmap for this territory located on the Franco-Belgian border and close to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. One of its objectives is to involve the inhabitants in a collective approach and to build a strategic dialogue with the actors on each side of the border.
The follow-up: institutional interviews, a citizen survey, and a cross-border workshop bringing together the territory's partners will run until spring 2023. This mission will make it possible to include several cross-border action sheets in the Montmédy PVD territory project.
Cross-border workshop in Modane (French-Italian border)
Still in the context of the PVD programme, the MOT concluded its second tailored support mission in November with a cross-border workshop in Modane.
Bringing together some thirty participants, this workshop made it possible to define priority actions in the areas of mobility, citizenship and low-carbon tourism development for the French-Italian pilot cooperation project between Modane-Fourneaux and Bardonecchia.
The action sheets produced during this workshop are intended to be integrated into the action plan of the territorial revitalisation project Small Towns of Tomorrow of Modane-Fourneaux.
The engineering support of the Small Towns of Tomorrow programme, with the support of the ANCT and the Banque des Territoires, has thus enabled new strategic orientations to emerge that are shared across borders!
Read our previous articles in the same vein:
"Small towns of tomorrow: a "flash" mission for Bouzonville and Sierck-les-Bains", June 2022
"Modane - Bardonecchia: two "Small towns of tomorrow" with cross-border ambitions", September 2022
