The constitutive meeting of the "Cross-border territorial observation" working group (GT/OTT) of the French-German Cross-border Cooperation Committee (CCT) was held in Strasbourg on December 15th under the co-chairmanship of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) and the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion (ANCT).
On December 15th, 2022, the MOT held its last Grand Est office of the year in Strasbourg.
Between 2019 and 2022 the MOT was part of the committee of experts in the framework of the PACTESUR project financed by the European Internal Security Fund. This project sought to provide European local authorities with the knowledge and tools they need to better secure their public spaces in the face of danger, particularly from terrorism.
On December 14th, 2022, the MOT took part, as a member, in the General Assembly of the TEIN (Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network), which preceded the two-day annual conference "Borders In Flux and Border Temporalities In and Beyond Europe", on December 15th and 16th at the University of Luxembourg in Esch-Belval.
This latest guide is dedicated to cross-border mobility.
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).
Following French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement to "ensure that in the major French metropolises that are currently congested, people who commute can do so without a car, thus decarbonising their journeys thanks to these metropolitan RERs", the elected representatives of the European Metropolitan Cluster of the Lorraine Region have called on the President to ensure that the construction of a "European Metropolitan Express Network to connect all the territories of Lorraine, from the Vosges to the Luxembourg border" is included in the State's priorities.
The Greater Geneva cross-border statistical observatory has published a study highlighting the attraction of Switzerland for healthcare personnel and its consequences in terms of human resources for neighbouring French hospitals.
On November 23rd, 2022, the Saarland, the Grand Est region, the Moselle department and the Saar-Moselle Eurodistrict signed an alliance designed to join forces to facilitate access to healthcare for the populations in the border regions.
The gradual conversion of a quarry in Saint-Louis, close to the French, Swiss and German borders, offers a promising opportunity for the agglomeration.
With a track record of more than 24 years, the "Living Pyrenees Education" network brings together more than 85 structures specializing in environmental education on the Pyrenean cross-border scale between France, Spain and Andorra.
CESCI prepared an interactive study on the operation and the main results of EGTCs with Hungarian participation over the past 10 years.
The 2022 EGTC prize "Building Europe across borders" of the European Committee of the Regions was awarded on November 24th, 2022 during the EGTC Platform in Liberec to an Italian-Slovenian EGTC: the "EGTC GO".
The 12th Platform of EGTCs of the European Committee of the Regions was organised on the 24th and 25th of November 2022, within the framework of the Czech Presidency of the EU, in Liberec (CZ) close to the triple border point between Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland.
ESPON launched the first cut-off date for the submission of proposals for Targeted Analyses for the ESPON Programme 2030. The deadline for responses is 24 February 2023, but it will be extended.
At the end of 2022, the MOT team is getting closer to the ground, meeting its members and partners at ten territorial cross-border meetings.
A new element of this call is that applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with immediate implementation. Deadline to apply is 28 February 2023.
The Cross-Border Renewable Energy programme (CB RES), part of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme, opened a call to provide support for financing preparatory studies.
The European Commission's draft regulation on the revision of the Schengen area will soon be discussed by the European Parliament.
Since its establishment in 2013, the Alzette Belval EGTC has been working daily basis for more than 100,000 inhabitants of four Luxembourgian and eight French municipalities.
Since its application for the title of "European Capital of Culture", the city of Esch-sur-Alzette, on the Luxembourgian side of the border, has emphasised the cross-border dimension of its territory and has integrated French municipalities and partners.
The Terres Rouges slag heap is a strategic site for the Alzette-Belval territory.
Following the extensive work carried out since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, the MOT is publishing a new "Focus" entitled "The health crisis in cross-border territories" and is devoting a new section of its website to this subject.
The National Council for Refoundation (CNR), launched in France by Emmanuel Macron in September 2022, has opened an online consultation so that citizens, as well as associations, professionals, local authorities and elected representatives, can propose ideas and solutions on the major transitions to come for the country.
On October 24th 2022 in Imperia (Italy), a meeting entitled "The Quirinal Treaty, a signature that unites France and Italy: what opportunities for our territories?" was organised by the DITER research programme of the Université Côte d'Azur.
