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AEBR NEWSFLASH No. 30AEBR NEWSFLASH No. 30 Summer 2013 Summer 2013

In this edition: Editorial Past AEBR events Pages 2-3 CB Labour Market CB Health Page 4 Sail of Papenburg 2013 Anniversaries, EGTC news Page 5 AEBR Task Forces Page 6 CBC in Latin America Page 7 Upcoming AEBR events Page 8 News of AEBR members News of European Institutions, Newsletters Page 9 Events in the EU Page 10-11 Events outside the EU Global Local Forum Page 12 Events of AEBR members Imprint Page 13

AEBR Annual Conference 2013 “Cross-Border Urban and Rural Integrated Areas –Challenges and Chances”

Members and friends of AEBR are cordially invited to the AEBR Annual Conference 2013 in Euregio Meuse-Rhine (EMR), which is organized on a cross-border level: delegates will travel from the Belgian city of Liège (venue of day 1 of the conference) to the Dutch city of Maastricht (2nd day of the conference), the latter known among others due to the European Treaty signed in 1992. There will be interesting academic, technical and political contributions, but also workshops of the AEBR Task Forces and small debates through the “World Café” technology, in order to take into account the wish of many members to experience more interaction. The cultural and framework programme will offer manifold occasions to get acquainted with the diversity of our host as well as for exchange and networking.

The item of this year’s AEBR Annual Conference is both up to date and exciting. In the last years the term “polycentric metropolitan region” has been developed by cross-border regions like EMR, covering several middle-sized urban agglomerations as well as rural areas. Integration of urban and rural areas is important in order to guarantee cohesion and competitiveness in a cross-border region. Before entering a new INTERREG period, in particular old internal border regions need to make clear that despite long-term cooperation and relative prosperity, cooperation needs to be continued and remaining obstacles have to be removed. After the elimination of physical obstacles and other problems related to different legal or administrative systems, it is time to tackle the development of cross-border integrated areas. Urban-rural partnership is a very meaningful cooperation in cross-border areas.

Walter Deffaa, Director General of DG REGIO, and MEP Danuta Hübner, chairperson of the REGI Committee at the European Parliament have already confirmed their presence, as well as numerous experts in the field of cross-border cooperation from all over Europe.

Visit our website regularly for an updated version of the programme for the AEBR Annual Visit our website regularly for an updated version of the programme for the AEBR Annual

Conference 2013. Practical information on accommodation, social programme and Conference 2013. Practical information on accommodation, social programme and

registration can be downloaded as well: registration can be downloaded as well:

http://www.aebr.eu/en/news/news_detail.php?news_id=251http://www.aebr.eu/en/news/news_detail.php?news_id=251

FYI: Euregio Meuse-Rhine (EMR), host of the AEBR General Assembly and Annual Conference in the year 2013, covers border areas in Belgium, The Ne t he r l ands and Germany.

AEBR Newsflash No. 30 - Summer 2013

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AEBR YOUTH SUMMER FORUM 2013

The Greek Municipality of Drama (Euroregion Nestos-Mesta) hosted the 5th AEBR Youth Summer Forum from 22 to 27 July 2013. A detailed report is available at http://www.aebr.eu/files/publications/5th_AEBR_Youth_Summer_Forum.pdf Photos are available in our gallery: https://plus.google.com/photos/116300049651201364398/albums/5908529036244153425

SOME EVENTS RECENTLY ORGANISED BY/WITH AEBR

6 June 2013 - AEBR President Karl-Heinz Lambertz met with Commission President Barroso and the Presidents of the CoR and the main regional and local associations in Brussels to discuss about the Commission's 2014 Work Programme. President Lambertz also had the chance to give his views on the future European Territorial Cooperation and some particular aspects of interest for CB regions, such as people-to-people projects. http://www.aebr.eu/en/news/news_detail.php?news_id=232 13 June 2013 - East Border Region Conference ‘Cross Border Cooperation; Best Practice and Future Opportunities from across the European Union’. On 13 June 2013, East Border Region Ltd, a local authority led cross-border organisation across the Irish-Northern Irish border, in conjunction with the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), hosted a Conference in Trim, County Meath, Ireland, in order to check the current situation of the European Territorial Cooperation objective, to look at best practices and to strengthen our European network. More than 150 participants, 50 of which were from border regions across Europe, took part in this event, which was part funded by the European Union’s INTERREG IV A Programme. More details, as well as all presentations given during this event, can be found in the AEBR website: http://www.aebr.eu/de/news/news_detail.php?news_id=237 14 June 2013 - AEBR Executive Committee Meeting in Trim, Ireland On invitation of the East Border Region, 37 representatives of European Border and Cross-Border Regions met on 14th June 2013 from 09:00 to 13:00 in the Knightsbrook Hotel in Trim, County Meath, Ireland. The 1st Vice-President of the AEBR, Ms Ann-Sofi Backgren, and Ms Pamela Arthurs, Executive Director of the East Border Region, opened the meeting and welcomed the participants in Ireland. For the first time in the meeting participated two representatives of the COMET Interreg Partnership, an organisation based in Northern Ireland working within the Interreg Programme 2007-2013. On the occasion of the meeting in Trim, COMET Interreg Partnership joined the AEBR as new full member of the association. Read more in our website: English: http://www.aebr.eu/en/news/news_detail.php?news_id=236

Source: East Border Region Ltd

Source: East Border Region Ltd

Source: CoR


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7th June, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria : II AEBR-Casa África Workshop on CBC in West Africa: “Support to integrated and sustainable development and CBC between Micronesia, Cape Verde and Senegal” Casa África was again the host of this workshop related to the homonymous project developed by the AEBR within a DG Regio call to put European Territorial Policy in the international agenda, and to respond to the demand on EU collaboration on CBC by African

and Latin American supranational organizations. Participants from Senegal, Cape Verde, Mali, the Canary Islands, DG Regio and AEBR discussed on the tasks developed within this project and the preliminary results achieved so far. The date was chosen on purpose, as 7th of June is the African Borders’ Day. The AEBR Secretary General proposed last 3rd of May in New York to the United Nations’ General Assembly to declare the 7th of June as the International Day of Integration across National Boundaries. The African Union celebrated this date for the first time in 2011, a intercontinental video-conference was organized by the AEBR, the African Union, the Economic Community of Western African States, the University of Edinburgh and several Latin American an European partners from Arica (Chile). In 2014, the AEBR Executive Committee will meet in Joensuu (North Karelia, Finland) on 7th June in the framework of the World Conference of the Association for Borderland Studies. 4-6 September 2013: Seminar on the Future of Cross-Border Cooperation between Ukraine and Poland/Slovakia/Hungary This seminar, co-organized by Volyn Oblast, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and the Association of European Border Regions, was held in Lutsk, Volyn Oblast (Ukraine). Around 30 representatives of all partners at the EU’s external border with the Ukraine were present to discuss upcoming regulations on the EU Neighbourhood Programme, new possibilities offered by the EGTC instrument, as well as possibilities to improve and intensify cross-border cooperation at the Western border of Ukraine with its neighbours. A small report and the presentation given by Ms. Bodil Persson, DG Development and Cooperation, European Commission, is available online: http://www.aebr.eu//en/news/news_detail.php?news_id=262 9th-21st September, Latin America: in the framework of the projects “EU-Latin America collaboration on cross-border cooperation in the framework of Regional Policy", and “EU-Central America cooperation: support to Central American Integration System (SICA) CBC actions”, under implementation by the AEBR in 2013, several events have been organized in Brazil, Perú, Colombia and El Salvador: 9th September, Foç do Iguaçu (Brazil), Triple Border AR-BR-PY: Technical Symposium to characterize a “World Class Border Region”, organized by SEBRAE, AEBR and other partners. 11th September: Puno (Peru): Workshop on Peru-Bolivia Cross-Border Integration in the Andean Community. Regional Government of Puno. 13th September, Lima (Peru): Workshop on Exchange of EU-Andean Experiences on Cross-Border Integration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru. 16th September: Mini-workshop at the Gulf of Fonseca (El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua) 17th September, Leticia (Colombia): I International Seminar on CBC at the Triple Amazonian Border. 18th September, Tabatinga (Brazil): XI Meeting of the Focal Point for Development and Integration of the Amazonian Border Strip, University of the State of Amazonas (UEA). 18th September: Mini-Workshop with the SICA in San Salvador. 19th September, Islandia (Peru): Border Integration Meeting, Islandia City Hall. 19th September, San Salvador (El Salvador): Workshop with the CEPA (Autonomous Harbour Executive Commission), the Harbour City Committee and other institutions. 20th September, San Salvador: Meeting with the Secretary General of the SICA. 21st September, San Salvador: Workshop with the SICA’s Agency for Border Security. 25th September, Metapán (El Salvador): Mini-workshop at the Trifinio (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras). 19 September 2013 Liège (BE), Euregio Meuse-Rhine Brainstorming event of AEBR Task Force “Cross-Border Culture” http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=298


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CROSS-BORDER LABOUR MARKET

CoR Plenary Session adopts opinion on frontier workers The own-initiative opinion on “Frontier workers: Assessment of the situation after twenty years of the Internal market: Problems and Perspectives”, elaborated by AEBR President Karl-Heinz Lambertz, was unanimously adopted by the CoR Plenary Session on 3 July 2013. Press Release of the PES Group: http://pes.cor.europa.eu/NEWS/Pages/130703Lambertz_EN.aspx Press Release of the CoR: http://cor.europa.eu/en/news/pr/Pages/cities-regions-cap-plenary.aspx Link to the Opinion (available in all official EU languages): http://www.toad.cor.europa.eu/AgendaDocuments.aspx?pmi=ha5jDW%2bOWSFeW6t%2bIviEiYu4LoYBLutp53ZhtKEIM%2bM%3d&ViewDoc=true

AEBR Project on “CB Labour Market”: article published in the framework of the especial feature on free

movement of workers in the magazine “Social Agenda” Social Agenda No 34 features the European Commission’s recent proposal to concretely help EU workers who want to move, or already have moved, within the European Single Market. Although the EU legislation on the freedom of movement of workers dates back to 1968, the right to equal treatment with the workers of the host country (i.e. non-discrimination on the grounds of nationality) is still not familiar to many, including among national and local civil servants. Source: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=737&langId=en&pubId=7625&visible=1

Consultancy for mobile workers secured: MEPs adopt new social programme: http://www.spd-europa.de/web/index-1799.html

CROSS-BORDER HEALTH

→ HealthEquity-2020: Reducing health inequalities - preparation for regional action plans and structural funds projects. Latest news and detailed information about activities, upcoming events etc.: www.healthequity2020.eu.

→ NDPHS Secretariat re-launched: The Secretariat of the Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS) has become an international legal entity:

http://www.ndphs.org/?language,English,e-news → Cross Border Health - CAWT in Action Newsletter - Issue 36: http://www.cawt.com/Download.aspx?

FILE=Publications/InAction/2013/C%20in%20A%20June%202013%20-%20FINAL.pdf → EurSafety HealthNet article “Reduction of the nosocomial meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

incidence density by a region-wide search and follow-strategy in forty German hospitals of the EUREGIO, 2009 to 2011“ published in the magazine ‘Eurosurveillance’:

http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20579 → EurSafety Health-Net was honoured as “flagship project” in the scope of the European Cooperation Day

2013. A video is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDCEfMrTVHE

GOOD PRACTICE IN EUROPEAN CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION OF UNIVERSITIES

The German Rectors´ Conference (HRK), the voluntary representation of 267 German universities and other higher education institutions, has recently compiled a list of cross border cooperation of universities in Europe. You can find this list on http://www.hrk.de/activities/european-research-policy/university-cross-border-cooperation/. A part of the list is based on information gathered by the Association of European Border Regions.

The list has already been presented to the European Research Area Committee (ERAC) as examples for near cross border cooperation of universities in Europe.


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ANNIVERSARIES OF AEBR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS

Updated information about last developments related to the EGTC, e.g.: → Revision of the EGTC Regulation → OPEN DAYS - Workshop on EGTC and Single Market → EGTC brochure 2 open to contributions → Annual Report of the EGTC Platform and action plan 2013 7. and a number of more news can be found here: http://www.aebr.eu/en/news/news_detail.php?news_id=233

Euregio Bayerischer Wald-Böhmerwald-Unterer Inn will hold a festive event to celebrate its 20th anniversary on 23rd October 2013 in Rohrbach (Upper Austria). More: http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=292

10th Anniversary of Euregio Slobozhanschina, Kharkiv, 7th November 2013 (Infos will be published in our website)

20th anniversary of Euroregion Pro Europa Viadrina, 20 September 2013, Kleist-Forum, Frankfurt/Oder (DE) http://www.euroregion-viadrina.de/cms/front_content.php?client=1&idcat=0&idart=0&lang=1&error=1

20th Anniversary of Euroregion Spree-Neiße-Bober, 21 September 2013 in Forst (Lausitz/DE): http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=249 http://www.euroregion-snb.de/de/index.php?pos_top=2&tm_nr2=245&no_popup=1&externe_db=

We would also like to congratulate the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions (CPMR), which celebrates its 40th Anniversary on 27-29 September in St. Malo: http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=300

20th Anniversary of Euregio Egrensis, special Symposium on 16th October 2013 in Marktredwitz (DE): http://www.euregioegrensis.de/component/eventlist/details/3-fachtagung%2020%20jahre%20ee?Itemid=435

Cross-Border Award “SAIL OF PAPENBURG 2013” Topic: Urban and Rural Integrated Areas - Cross-Border Challenges and Chances The deadline of this call was prolonged until 14th October 2013. More information: http://www.aebr.eu/en/sail_of_papenburg/region_award.php In 2013, also a personal Award ”Sail of Papenburg 2013“ will be conferred to a politician who is committed to cross-border cooperation. This award will be handed over on the occasion of the AEBR Annual Conference on 7th November 2013 in Liège. Previous winners of the personal prize are Mr. Elmar Brok, MEP (in 2006), and Mr. Michel Delebarre, former President of the Committee of the Regions (in 2008). More: http://www.aebr.eu/en/sail_of_papenburg/individual_award.php


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AEBR TASK FORCES

TASK FORCE EXTERNAL BORDERS On the occasion of the AEBR Executive Committee held on 14th June in Trim/East Border Region, the members of the TFEB presented the preparation of the 5th Youth Summer Forum and discussed the proposed Neighbourhood Instrument. A report about the 5th Youth Summer Forum, held in Drama/Greece, will soon be available in the AEBR website. Thanks to Nestos Mesta for their efforts to organize this 5th Forum. The next event of this Task Force will be held during the AEBR Annual Conference.

TASK FORCE CROSS-BORDER HEALTH Jan Ostenbrink (EUREGIO) and Dr Karl-Heinz Feldhoff (Euregio Meuse-Rhin) will coordinate this Task Force from now on. Next event during the AEBR Annual Conference.

TASK FORCE CROSS-BORDER CULTURE On 19 September 2013, a brainstorming event took place in Liège, Euregio Meuse-Rhine, with the aim to find out how this European network can select projects, assist artists, artistic groups or cultural actors to start cross-border, transnational or European projects they wish to realize. You can find information about this event in the AEBR website: English: http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=298 French: http://www.aebr.eu/fr/events/events_detail.php?event_id=298 German: http://www.aebr.eu/de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen_detail.php?event_id=298 The next workshop of TF CB Culture will be held in the scope of the AEBR General Assembly and Annual Conference on 7 and 9 November 2013 in Liège, Euregio Meuse-Rhine. More news on Culture: → Baltic Cities Bulletin: Education through Culture: http://www.ubc.net/link,2464.html TASK FORCE WATER MANAGEMENT This Task Force was launched during the Open Days 2012 with the intention of building partnership for project implementation, answer to call and tenders and take part in any activity related to cross-border water management. On 4 June 2013, the first workshop of the Task Force took place in Noordwijk (NL), hosted by EURISY-ESA-ESTEC. Title of the event was “Water management and climate change: satellite solutions to enhance cross-border collaboration”. The report about the results of this meeting is available for download: http://www.aebr.eu/pdf/fmanager//Task_Forces/Water_Management/Final_Document_Workshop_TFWG.pdf The next event of this TF will be held in the scope of the AEBR Annual Conference in Liège.

TASK FORCE INTERREG PROGRAMMES This has been a demand of many AEBR members and was launched during the Executive Committee in Santiago de Compostela (8th March 2013). A workshop is expected to be organized during the AEBR Annual Conference in Liège.

TASK FORCE CROSS-BORDER LABOUR MARKET This is another demand of some AEBR members. An installation meeting is expected to be organized during the AEBR Annual Conference in Liège.


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CBC IN LATIN AMERICA

AEBR successfully implemented the fourth Information Session (IS-IV) for Latin American experts on CBC in the framework of the project “EU-Latin America collaboration on cross-border cooperation in the framework of Regional Policy", which is funded by the European Commission (Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy). From May 20th - June 6th, 2013, AEBR received 9 Latin American officials from different border areas in the Andean and Amazon regions, under the recommendations of the Andean Community (Comunidad Andina, http://www.comunidadandina.org/) and the Federal Government of Brazil. They made a study visit to learn on the ground about several European border region models. AEBR welcomed the Latin American representatives from border regions of Colombia, Peru, and Brazil, and the Federal Government of Brazil, on May 21st, in Maastricht, where they learned about the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion and its significance in cross-border cooperation (CBC). From there, they went to visit the Limburg regional government. After visiting Aachen and its European significance, they met with the leaders of several key cultural projects of the Great Region in Trier. They also learned about the cities´ historical and locational importance. They travelled to Luxembourg to gain knowledge in regional cooperation, visiting the Greater Region. They next went to Saarbrucken and acquired knowledge about the Sarre-Moselle Eurodistrict. After this session, they drove to Strasbourg, visiting on their way several interesting cross-border sites. In Strasbourg they met Ms. Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons, who is a high-ranking civil servant for the Council of Europe. The following day, they travelled to Brussels to visit the European Commission, where they were introduced to Mr Ramón Lopez, DG REGIO, and to representatives of the European External Action Service and DG DevCo. At the Committee of Regions, they met Mr. Alfonso Alcolea of the European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation unit. Next, they had a working meeting with MEP Mr Luis Yáñez. In Ghent, they met local authorities of the Province of East Flanders and learnt the experiences of Euregio Scheldemond. They discussed about cross-border cooperation within the EU and the Andean Community, and introduced the EU Latin-America collaboration project with regards to regional policy.

They were also given a presentation on the innovative projects for agriculture and rural development / renewable energy in Scheldemond and a tour of the Pilot Plant Europe Bio-base and the Bio-base Training Center. The next day, they visited INAGRO where they observed laboratories and projects related to horticulture, greenhousing, organic farming, aquaculture in water recycling and bio-gas production. Later, they went to Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Eurometropolis, where they were introduced to the work of the first established EGTC. In Paris, they participated in a working session with the Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (M.O.T.), regarding their experience in proximity CBC, EGTCs and assistance to CB structures. Afterwards, they visited the border area between Spain and Portugal, where they took part in various meetings with the EGTC Galicia-Norte de P o r t u g a l , t h e C B C C e n t r e o f Enterprises (CECOTRAN), the University of Vigo, the International Iberian Laboratory of Nanotechnology in Braga, and the Commission for Coordination and Regional Development for the North of Portugal in Porto. The AEBR considers this project, so far, a success and looks forward to welcoming the next part of the project phase, which will be held in September with several seminars and workshops in Latin America. The full report with links to all presentations given is available in the AEBR website: http://www.aebr.eu/en/news/news_detail.php?news_id=250. For a Spanish version, please click: http://www.aebr.eu/en/news/news_detail.php?news_id=248.

Delegation meeting with Sr. Jesús Gamallo Aller, Director Xeral de Relacións Exteriores e coa Unión Europea, Xunta de Galicia


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NEWS OF AEBR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS

EuRegio Salzburg-Berchtesgadener Land-Traunstein (AT/DE) has updated its profile in the AEBR website. You can find the new fact sheets in English and German via the following link: http://www.aebr.eu/en/members/member_detail.php?region_id=81. There, the most recent edition of the Newsletter “EuRegio Aktuell” is also available for download.

Euregio Meuse-Rhine (B/DE/NL), host of the AEBR General Assembly and Annual Conference 2013, has also updated the information contained in the AEBR website. The new fact sheet is available in English, French and German at http://www.aebr.eu/en/members/member_detail.php?region_id=61.

EUREGIOSCHOOL receives the European Citizen’s prize 2013: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/nl/pressroom/content/20130606AVI11202/html/Euregioschool-ontvangt-Prijs-van-de-Europese-Burger-2013-van-Europees-Parlement

EUREGIO Council approved 12 new INTERREG projects, which have the aim to strengthen the dialogue between citizens in the German/Dutch border area : German: http://www.euregio.eu/de/pressemitteilungen/feuerwehren-lernen-den-brand-zu-%E2%80%9Alesen%E2%80%99 Dutch: http://www.euregio.eu/nl/persberichten/brandweer-leert-de-brand-%E2%80%98lezen%E2%80%99

Compendium of Projects, presenting the 63 projects financed by the Atlantic Area Operational Programme 2007-2013: http://www.aebr.eu/en/news/news_detail.php?news_id=257

First E-Digest of the AEBR Information Centre in the Kharkiv National University of Economics (Euroregion Slobozhanschina: http://www.aebr.eu/files/publications/E-Digest_1st_Edition.pdf

INFOPRESS, Berichterstatter der Euroregion Erzgebirge/Krusnohorí, Edition 2/2013: http://www.euroregion-erzgebirge.de/elemente/mediacenter/IHIK4T38RR7DHXTPNRKNDJJZ0/infopress_02_2013.pdf

Euregio Messenger 1/2013 (Euregio Bayerischer Wald-Böhmerwald-Unterer Inn): http://www.euregio-bayern.de/publikationen/messenger/

BORDER-ZINE, Issue 2: http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e19d5cefddda518ed524eed6f&id=d7df8d0d1e&e=443d99d98b

RMOÖ News Juli 2013 (Regionalmanagement Oberösterreich): http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=827daaf2c879b47c85c0e5e63&id=61e2806686&e=179b13397a

Euregio als Lernumgebung (Newsletter of Euregio Meuse-Rhine) http://linguacluster.cmail2.com/t/ViewEmail/y/7F0E0A1BA20B3177/C4AE48A59EF4471E4D402EFBD42943A3

A note from the Next Door Neighbours (82): A Cross-Border Gun for Hire: http://www.crossborder.ie/?cat=6

UPCOMING EVENTS ORGANISED BY/WITH AEBR

Open Days 2013: 9th October, 11:15-13:30, Committee of the Regions, Workshop „EGTC: approaching smart solutions?“ http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=305 9th October, 14:30-17:00, Committee of the Regions, Workshop "Waste management systems – investing in line with the waste hierarchy": http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=302

7-9 November 2013: AEBR General Assembly and Annual Conference On invitation of Euregio Meuse-Rhine, the next General Assembly and Annual Conference of AEBR will take place in Liège (Belgium) and Maastricht (The Netherlands): Documents in English: http://www.aebr.eu//en/news/news_detail.php?news_id=251 Documents in French: http://www.aebr.eu//fr/news/news_detail.php?news_id=251 Documents in German: http://www.aebr.eu//de/news/news_detail.php?news_id=251

11-15 November 2013: Kiev/Kharkiv (UA) Euroregion Slobozhanschina International Round Table “The development of CBC between Ukraine and the EU” and opening of the AEBR Information Centre in Kharkiv http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=287

19 November 2013: AEBR Forum on EGTC and Civil Society The AEBR is organizing this event with the EGTCs’ Platform at the Committee of the Regions To be held at the CoR, Brussels: http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=283


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NEWS OF EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS

EUROPEAN COMMISSION → 8th Progress Report on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0463:FIN:EN:PDF → EU COHESION POLICY CONTRIBUTING TO EMPLOYMENT AND GROWTH IN EUROPE, Joint

paper from the Directorates-General for Regional & Urban Policy and Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/studies/pdf/cp_employ_growth_en.pdf

→ Panorama Magazine No. 47 “Eco-innovation: EU regions spearhead moves towards the green economy“ http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/panorama/pdf/mag47/mag47_en.pdf

→ Panorama Magazine No. 46 “The EU welcomes Croatia, Its 28th Member State”: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/panorama/pdf/mag46/mag46_en.pdf

→ Year at a glance: PROGRESS 2012 http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=10377&langId=en → Europe in my Region, photo competition: https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanCommission/app_386310531430573 → First Report on the Implementation of the EUSDR: “Two years flowing“ http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/cooperate/danube/documents_en.cfm#1 → Evaluating the EU‘s Macro-Regional Strategies: present and future http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-628_en.htm COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS (COR) → Annual Report of the CoR Subsidiarity Monitoring Network published: https://portal.cor.europa.eu/subsidiarity/Publications/Documents/Subsidiarity%20Annual%20Report_2012_EN.pdf → CoR Online consultation: “Towards a mid-term assessment of Europe 2020 from the standpoint of

EU cities and regions”. The findings of this consultation will be used to support a CoR Political Declaration on Europe 2020 and a Mid-term Assessment Report, to be presented on 7 and 8 March 2014 at the Summit of European Cities and Regions in Athens. The online questionnaire is available in 24 languages via the following link: https://portal.cor.europa.eu/europe2020/Pages/TMAsurvey.aspx

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE (EESC) → Opinion on the European Commission Green Paper on long-term financing of the European

economy: http://www.eesc.europa.eu/?i=portal.en.eco-opinions.27377

• INTERACT June 2013 Newsflash: http://www.interact-eu.net/mailings_archive

• Baltic Development Forum Newsletter: http://www.anpdm.com/newsletterweb/414B5C43714546584070494659/4445594375474659477145405C43

• URBACT Newsletter June 2013: http://urbact.eu/newsletter/june2013/index.html

• Léman Newsletter No. 73: http://www.frontalier.org/newsletter/newsletter73.htm

• CRPM Newsletter No. 93: http://www.crpm.org/newsletter/93/93_fr.html

• CRPM Newsletter No. 94: http://www.crpm.org/newsletter/94/94_fr.html

• PLATFORMA Newsletter No. 22: http://www.platforma-dev.eu/newsletter.php?newsletter_id=20&lg=en

• ARL Newsletter 09/2013: http://www.arl-net.de/content/newsletter-der-arl-92013

• EESC Info July 2013: http://www.eesc.europa.eu/?i=portal.en.eesc-info.28771

• Research News of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development within the German Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning:

http://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/EN/Publications/ResearchNews/2011_2015/2013_1.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2

• L’actualité transfrontalière, newsletter of MOT: http://www.espaces-transfrontaliers.org/nouv/pdfnews-2219b040c7.pdf

• Brochure “Sustainable, multimodal & green transport corridors”: http://eu.baltic.net/Publications.191html

• INTERREG IV FWVL - Newsletter 15: http://www.interreg-fwvl.eu/fr/mailing.php?mailingId=20&code=imp161976772

• Cross-Border Orchestra Ireland September 2013 Newsletter: http://clicks.emsg-live.co.uk/email_content.php?

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• 5th Newsletter of the “Green Mountain” project, financed by the SEE Programme: http://www.greenmountain-see.eu/?p=2547

OTHER NEWSLETTERS, BROCHURES ETC.


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EVENTS IN THE EU RELATED TO CBC AND OTHER TERRITORIAL ISSUES

DATE/PLACE TOPIC / INFOS

4-7 June 2013 Brussels

Green Week 2013 http://ec.europa.eu/environment/greenweek/index.html

5-7 June 2013 Lyon (FR)

UCLG Executive Bureau and World Forum of Regions http://uclg-lyon2013.org/

10 June 2013 Copenhagen (DK)

Conference “Denmark and Baltic Sea Cooperation – new objectives, new means” http://www.bdforum.org/denmark-baltic-sea-region-cooperation-objectives-resources/

11 June 2013 Karlsruhe (DE)

French-German film evening « Qu’est-ce qui unit l’Europe? » http://www.steinbeis-europa.de/event.1358.html

17 June 2013 Iasi (RO)

External Seminar of the Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs (CIVEX) of the Committee of the Regions, hosted by Iasi County Council (Euroregion Siret-Prut-Nistru)

18 June 2013 Berlin (DE)

Workshop “Empfehlungen zur Nutzung des Instruments der EVTZ” http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=258

18-19 June Brussels (BE)

Policy Forum on Development

21 June 2013 Le Bourget, France

EURISY General Assembly

26-27 June 2013 Basle (CH)

INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKING FORUM Special Theme: How can smart specialisation strategies strengthen regional innovation systems? www.bakbasel.com

2 July 2013 Brussels (BE)

CoR conference “The Digital Agenda for Europe: what role for regions and cities” http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=271

2 July 2013 Brussels (BE)

CoR stakeholder consultation on “2013 Report on EU Citizenship: your rights, your future” http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=277

3-5 July 2013 Bergamo (IT)

European Border Studies Conference “Mapping Conceptual Change in Thinking European Borders” http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=207

9 July 2013 Bolzano (IT)

Seminar of the CoR CIVEX Commission “Multilevel governance in practice at local and regional level-decentralised policy strategies in the European Year of Citizens” http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=275

2-3 September 2013 Vilnius (LT)

CoR Conference “Resource-efficient Europe: the contribution of regions and cities”

http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=274

3-5 September 2013 Krynica, Poland

XXIII Economic Forum

12-13 September 2013 Berlin (DE)

Symposium “Grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit mit deutscher Beteiligung - Erfahrungsaustausch 2013”, co-organised by the German Ministry of Interior and the Euro-Institute Kehl: http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=294

16-17 September 2013 Paris (FR)

OECD Workshop “Regions an Innovation: Collaborating Across Borders” www.oecd.org/gov/regional/innovation

18-21 September 2013 Cascais (PT)

X Biennial of European Towns and Town Planners “ New Paradigmes, Challenges and Opportunities of European Cities” http://cascaisurban2013.pt/en/program

21 September 2013 Europe

European Cooperation Day 2013 http://www.ecday.eu/

25-27 September 2013 St. Malo (FR)

CRPM General Assembly and 40th Anniversary Celebration http://www.crpm.org/index.php?act=12,1,b,346


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DATE/PLACE TOPIC / INFOS

1-3 October 2013 Lublin, Poland

Eastern Europe Initiatives Congress 2013 http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=245

1-4 October 2013 Mariehamn, Aland

XII UBC General Conference “FROM WORDS TO ACTION: Combating youth unemployment and marginalisation” www.mariehamn.ax/ubc

3 October 2013 Copenhagen (DK)

Baltic Sea Conference 2013: Blue Growth, Sustainability and Water Industries http://www.bdforum.org/baltic-sea-region-conference-2013/

7-10 October 2013 Brussels

OPEN DAYS 2013 http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/conferences/od2013/index.cfm

11 October 2013 Brussels

ESPON’s Territorial Vision of Europe towards 2050 http://www.espon.eu/main/Menu_Events/Menu_Workshops/workshop131011.html

13-15 October 2013 Pamhagen (AT)

9th IRE’s Conference of European Regions and Cities Economy meets Politics: Cross border regional cooperation http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=289

15 October 2013 Vilnius

Meeting of the National Territorial Cooperation Contact Points (NTCCP)

15 October 2013 Kehl (DE)

Euroinstitut Seminar „Bürgerbeteiligung und zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in Deutschland und Frankreich: Wie kann die neue Beteiligungskultur unterstützt werden?“ http://www.euroinstitut.org/wDeutsch/fortbildungsprogramm/detail.php?script=/wDeutsch/fortbildungsprogramm/wScripts/veranstaltung_anzeigen.php&veranstaltungid=1495564288&viewMode=&startLimit=&kategorie=&Category=

16-18 October 2013 Tallinn (EE)

TEN-T Days http://www.tentdays2013.eu/

16-19 October 2013 Brussels (BE)

Crans Montana Forum 2013 http://cmf.ch/events/upcoming-events

17-18 October 2013 Helsinki

21st Annual Conference of the Baltic Sea States Sub-Regional Cooperation http://www.cbss.org/ai1ec_event/21st-bsssc-annual-conference-policymaking-after-2013-towards-new-dimension-in-baltic-sea-cooperation/?instance_id=

21 October 2013 Strasbourg (FR)

20th anniversary of Euro-Institut Kehl http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=279

29-31 October 2013 Strasbourg

25th Session of the Bureau of the Congress of European Local and Regional Powers

29 - 31 October 2013 Amsterdam (NL)

EYCA: International Conference “Borders to Cross – How green is (y)our grass?” http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=276

28-29 October 2013 Bucharest (RO)

2nd Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region http://danubedevelopmentforum.com/2nd-annual-forum-of-the-eu-strategy-for-the-danube-region-bucharest-october-28-29-2013/

31 October 2013 Badajoz (ES)

Eurisy/Extremadura conference “Satellite applications for multi-level irrigation management: capitalising on experience to drive regional innovation” http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=282

8 November 2013 Brussels (BE)

Regions as Motors of New Growth through Smart Specialisation http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/conferences/smart_specialisation/agenda_en.cfm

19-20 November 2013 Brussels (BE)

Second European Conference on Regions and Biodiversity - Local action for biodiversity: the role of the regions http://www.regionsandbiodiversity.eu/

26 November 2013 Strasbourg (FR)

CEMR/CONGRESS Conference on Decentralisation

27 November 2013 Brussels

Committee of Regions’ Conference “Innovation Union”

27-29 November 2013 Ghent, Belgium

Eurocities General Assembly

31 March 2014 Brussels (BE)

RegioStars

12 October 2013 Belgrade (RS)

First ECPD Youth Discussion Forum “Youth for Maintaining Peace through Reconciliation and Acceptance in the Balkans” and 30th Anniversary of the ECPD (European Center for Peace and Development) More information: [email protected]

21 - 22 October 2013 Brussels (BE)

CALRE Plenary Sessions http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=312


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3-5 June 2013 Mexico City

11th Latin American Leadership Forum

12-14 June 2013 Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina

ExperienciAmérica: HEMISPERICAL SUMMIT OF MAYORS - VII Latin American Congress of United Cities and Local Governments: http://www.cumbredealcaldes.com/english/index_english.php

15 June 2013 Bethlehem (Palestine)

ARLEM SUDEV commission meeting

26-29 June 2013 Baku, Azerbaijan

CransMontana Forum’s 24th Annual Session http://www.cmf.ch/events/2013-06-29-2013-post-crisis-world

4 June 2013 Kaliningrad (RU)

Round Table discussion “Financing Energy Solutions in the Kaliningrad Oblast” http://www.bdforum.org/finanding-models-energy-efficiency-russia-magic-formula/

15-21 June 2013 Tbilisi (Georgia)

International Summer School, organised in cooperation between Tartu University, Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation and Tbilisi State University www.eurborderregions.eu

4 October 2013 Rabat

ARLEM’s ECOTER Committee


4 October 2013 Rize (TY)

4th Black Sea Summit


1st October 2013 Rabat

General Assembly of ORU/FOGAR http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=286

3 October 2013 Rabat

World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders

19-20 September Petrozavodsk

IX Annual International Conference “Cross-Border Cooperation: the Russian Federation, the European Union and Norway”

21-22 October 2013 St. Petersburg

XII All-Russian Forum St. Petersburg http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=311

29 Oct —1st Nov Foç o Iguaçu (Brazil)

II World Forum on Economic Development http://www.foromundialdel.org/?lang=en

17-19 December Dakar (Senegal)

Forum on Decentralized Cross-Border Cooperation

27-29 November 2013 Fort-de-France

Les rencontres « Amérique latine, Caraïbe, Europe de al coopération transfrontière » http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=310

11-13 December 2013 Lima

Perú-EU Dialogue on Innovation for Territorial Development

2-3 December 2013 San Salvador

Workshop on CBC within the Central American Integration System

EVENTS OUTSIDE THE EU

The Global Local Forum has recently interviewed AEBR Secretary General Martín Guillermo Ramírez on cross-border cooperation, the objectives of AEBR, CBC in the world etc. The full interview is available in French and Spanish at http://www.global-local-forum.com/pages.asp?ref_page=8734

The GLOBAL LOCAL FORUM think tank : an international network

Created in Dakar in 2008, Global Local Forum is an international ‘laboratory of ideas’ which aims to contribute to mutual development between territories, reflect and stimulating innovative forms of cooperation, as well as re-aligning the economy to serve the people in the dialogue between territories. It gathers members from 32 countries on all the continents that look beyond their ideological convictions, their beliefs, and their own limits, to generate collaborative diagnoses on the key-role of territories as crucibles of human progress and sustainable economic development. This work takes place against the backdrop of aspirations for fairer a distribution of global public goods, and a new more dynamic strategy in the field – one closer to everyday realities and to the well-being of the majority of the world’s population. Source: Website of the Global Local Forum.

GLOBAL LOCAL FORUM - INTERVIEW WITH AEBR SECRETARY GENERAL


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The “Association of European Border Regions” (AEBR) is the oldest independent association of regions in Europe, founded in 1971, and the only one deal ing with Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC). AEBR has more than forty years of extensive theoretical and practical experience in all aspects related to CBC, but also in the fields of inter-regional and transnational co-operation. With its 100 members (European border and cross-border regions), the AEBR is a forum for cross-border cooperation and makes the voice of the border and cross-border regions heard at European level. Euroregions, border and cross-border regions or organisations interested in receiving information about the conditions of an AEBR membership are invited to contact the AEBR Head Office. http://www.aebr.eu/en/publications/publications.php

EVENTS OF AEBR MEMBER REGIONS

4-6 June Mérida (ES)

Final Seminar of the OTALEXC Project (Territorial and Environmental Observatory for Alentejo, Extremadura and Centro).

17-19 June 2013 Iasi, Romania

External Seminar of the Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs (CIVEX) of the Committee of the Regions, hosted by Iasi County Council (Euroregion Siret-Prut-Nistru), followed by the Business Forum of Euroregion Siret-Prut-Nistru

27-28 June 2013 Galtür, Tyrol (AT)

Conference of Presidents, Alpine Regions - Arge Alp

12 July 2013 Porto Calem (PT)

International Conference on Tourism: The Euroregion Galicia-Norte de Portugal, which synergies, what future?


17-18 October 2013 Donetsk (UA)

6th International Investment Summit: Sustainable development: energy efficiency, resource-saving, environmental security


10 June 2013 Extremadura (ES)

Celebration of “Día de Portugal en Extremadura” (Day of Portugal in Extremadura)

http://www.aebr.eu/en/news/news_detail.php?news_id=256

24 January 2014 Gronau (DE)

EUREGIO General Assembly and New Year's reception 2014 http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=295

20 June 2013 El Granado (ES)

Presentation of the cross-border map of “Bajo Guadiana”.

http://www.euroaaa.eu/site/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=75

31 October 2013 Badajoz (ES)

EURISY-Extremadura Workshop


29 November 2013 Maastricht (NL)

EMRIC+ Project Final Symposium

7-9 September 2013 Rzeszów (PL)

Alpine-Carpathian Cooperation Forum www.forum-karpackie.pl

20 September 2013 Ayamonte (ES)

Mercado fronterizo en el marco de la celebración del Dia de la Cooperación Territorial

Europea: http://www.aebr.eu/en/events/events_detail.php?event_id=306