After the success of the first session with over 600 participants, a second session of the MOOC on European territorial cooperation produced by the MOT and its partners (Strasbourg University, Artois University, Thessaloniki University, CESCI, Euro-Institut, TEIN network) will be held in October and November 2022. Dates for your diary: 5 October for the start of the online course.
"70 people aged 2 to 87 who live, work or enjoy their time in the Strasbourg Eurometropolis or in Kehl, share their views on what constitutes the cross-border living area, the influence of restrictions on crossing the border during the health crisis and their aspirations for the future."
Are you a local authority, a university, an EGTC, a Euroregion? Do you want to improve the multi-level governance of your territory and co-develop cross-border strategies? The call for expressions of interest launched by DG REGIO is for you. Don't delay, the deadline is September 30th 2022.
Today, territories are faced with major "transition" issues that challenge public policies. To understand how they impact cross-border territories, the MOT offers you three main sections on its website (in French) devoted to economic transitions, ecological transitions and cross-border rural communities.
On July 19th, three agreements on civil security and border security were signed between the prefecture of Savoie and that of Turin.
"We will no longer be satisfied with a simple cooperation across the border that stops at the first crisis. We refuse to give up! When will the states work together to serve the cross-border territories?" summarised the MOT president Christian Dupessey in front of 570 participants.
On 12 July 2022, Brigitte Klinkert, member of parliament for Haut-Rhin (FR), questioned the French government in the National Assembly on "the place of cross-border cooperation in the negotiations conducted under the French Presidency ». Specific provisions will be included in the revision of the Schengen code.
Every six months, the MOT newsletter "Cross-border news" is published in the form of a retrospective brochure in PDF format.
The European Commission has not scrutinised enough the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic posed to the right of free movement of people. This is the overall conclusion of a special report published on 13 June 2022 by the European Court of Auditors (ECA).
What do Lille, Esch-sur-Alzette (LU), Nova Gorica (SI), Timișoara (RO), Mons (BE) and Novi Sad (SRB) have in common?
The agreement between Switzerland and France on the taxation of cross-border workers has been extended until 31 October 2022.
An initial Franco-Belgian steering committee on the Val de Sambre and the cross-border territory around the conurbations of Mons, Maubeuge and Charleroi took place on Friday 1 July at the Jeumont digital station.
Within the framework of the 11th World Urban Forum, which took place in Katowice on 26-30 June, the PFVT (the French platform for urban development internationally) has published 14 booklets produced by all of the stakeholders involved in the French partnership during an intensive period of work in 2021.
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.
The call for proposals was launched at the "ConnectingEurope Days" in Lyon on 30 June.
At the invitation of CESCI and Initiatives France Central and Eastern Europe, the MOT took part on 9 June of the Oradea Process, a series of meetings and seminars aimed at developing cross-border initiatives on the Romanian-Hungarian border.
The Interreg France-Switzerland VI 2021-2027 programme was officially launched at an event in Arc-et-Senans (Doubs) on 9 June 2022.
What is the role of border areas with respect to European citizenship? How do local players respond to hosting displaced people in their territory? These are three questions that Chantal Jouanno, Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul and María Ángeles Elorza Zubiría, all speakers at the forthcoming Borders Forum, will attempt to answer.
Close to the Franco-German and Franco-Luxembourg borders, Bouzonville and Sierck-les-Bains are drawing up their cross-border goals with the help of the MOT.
Summary of the conference held on 24-25 May by CESCI, in partnership with the MOT and the French Institute in Budapest.
Focus on two border initiatives at the heart of the European project.
At the invitation of the Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Eurometropolis Agency, the MOT went to Tournai on 25 May 2022 to take part in the launch of the first “European Citizens’ Space”.
