Greater Region What else ?

24/09/2015

Philippe LEDENT

President of the economicand social Committee of the

Greater RegionPresidente del Comité Económico y Social de la Gran Región

The Greater Region (French: Grande Région, German: Großregion) is the area of 5 regions (4 countries) namely: Lorraine, Luxembourg, Saarland, 

Rhineland-Palatinate, Wallonia and the rest of the French Community of Belgium, and the German-speaking Community of Belgium

The Greater Region

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ZOOM:The Greater Region on the EU map

Located in the heart of Europe

11,5 mio inhabitants

65.500 km2

And much more:

•The Greater Region Business Days 17/06 and 18/06/2015

http://www.gr-businessdays.com/

Wallonia

•Good logistic infrastructure

•Top quality of the Higher Eduction

•Industries (wood…)

•Nice real estate opportunities

•Excellent connections with the neighbour regions

Lorraine

•Tourist economy

•Industry Parc Metz-Châteauroux Sino-French

•Industrial tissue

•High Gastronomy

•Excellent connections with the neighbour regions

Saarland

•Industry (automobile, ICT, china)

•Good logistic infrastructure

•Gateway to France

•Excellent connections with the neighbour regions

Rhineland-Palatinate

•Industries (glass, chemical and pharma, china, automobile...)

•Lots of higher eduction institutions

•Excellent connections to the neighbour countries

Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg

•House of Biohealth

•Logistic Hub, Incubators

•Freeport near the airport

•Financial know how

•Excellent connections with the neighbour regions

• 5 regions - 5 strengths put together in the Greater Region in order to achieve greater goals

• All (brains) in one !

ICT, cleantech, biotech, fintech, RDI, nature, gastronomy, organic food…

• Try and find out the benefits of the Greater Region

• For more information, the Chamber of commerce of the different regions:

Wallonia: www.ucm.be or www.uwe.be

Lorraine: www.nancy.cci.fr, ww.lorraine.cci.fr

Saarland: www.saarland.ihk.de

Rhineland-Platinate: www.pfalz.ihk24.de

Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: www.cc.lu

• ESCGR receives a mandate from the Summit of the GR (since 1995) and has also the right to self-referral (auto-saisine).

Submits resolutions to the Summit GR.

• Secretariat of the Summit of GR (since 2014)

• ESCGR (fr.: CESGR), (since 1997), Secretariat ESCGR is a part of the ESCGR: advisory organ, dialog with social partners

• IPC (Interregional Parliamentary Council), (since 1986): advisory parliamentary assembly of the GR

• Summit GR, ESCGR, IPC = 3 key pillars of the political architecture of crossborder cooperation

• 2015/2016: Presidentship of Wallonia in the frame of the 15th Summit of GR

• The ESCGR has 4 working groups (WG):WG1: EconomyWG2: TransportWG3: Labour marketWG4: Health and Silver Economy

Each WG is led by a president.Industry Booster Group

Contact:•M. Philippe LEDENT, President of the Economic and Social Committee of the Greater Region (ESCGR) T. +32 497443702

•Secretariat of the Economic and Social Committee of the Greater RegionB.P.402, L-4005 Esch-sur-Alzette

cesgr@cesgr.etat.lu, T. + 352 247-80116

Any questions?