Understanding European Cross-border Cooperation: A Framework for Analysis

Sousa, Luís de

doi:10.1080/07036337.2012.711827

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“…The analysis included studies conducted among main subjects of cross-border cooperation in the regions such as: local governments, public institutions and non-governmental organizations. This approach corresponds to other views presented in the literature [43,44]. The data contained in Table 2 indicate a relatively higher interest in cross-border cooperation on the Polish side rather than on the Czech side.…”

Section: The Assessment Of Cross-border Cooperation In the Czech-polimentioning

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The Analysis of the Determinants of Sustainable Cross-Border Cooperation and Recommendations on Its Harmonization

Kurowska‐Pysz

Szczepańska-Woszczyna

2017

Sustainability

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Cross-border partnerships are a distinctive example of inter-organizational cooperation, embedded, in terms of territory, in the neighboring borderland regions of two or more countries. The aim of this paper is to identify factors that contribute to the sustainable cross-border cooperation and affect motivation to increase cooperation between cross-border partners. The objective implementation is connected with the verification of a hypothesis referring to the possible impact of the European Union funds on the trans-boundary cooperation transformations. Results of desk research and quantitative research involving IDI, CATI, CAWI and CATI and PAPI data collection methods, implemented in the Polish-Czech borderland in 2016 were used in this paper. Research on the Polish-Lithuanian borderland was also used in the paper to conduct comparative analysis, useful to identify and evaluate factors motivating sustainable cross-border cooperation in the Czech-Polish borderland. The sustainable, cross-border and inter-organizational cooperation in the borderlands results from the simultaneous interaction of three groups of factors: (1) people and institutions (the quality of interpersonal relationships); (2) cross-border planning, procedures and support mechanisms (e.g., the possibility of jointly planning the cross-border cooperation and obtaining EU funds for the development of the borderlands as well as the availability of other funds helpful in this kind of cooperation); and (3) environment (historical affinity and geographical proximity of neighboring border regions, system support at the regional and local level in neighboring countries).

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Section: The Assessment Of Cross-border Cooperation In the Czech-polimentioning

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The Analysis of the Determinants of Sustainable Cross-Border Cooperation and Recommendations on Its Harmonization

Kurowska‐Pysz

Szczepańska-Woszczyna

2017

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“…Rozwój wzajemnych kontaktów stymuluje wymianę handlową, kooperację podmiotów gospodarczych, wspólne inwestycje, przedsięwzięcia w zakresie ochrony środowiska, planowania przestrzennego, połączeń komunikacyjnych itp. [De Sousa 2012].…”

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Mieszajkina¹

2016

Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu

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“…it also goes without saying that a large part of the financial aid given to the objective of territorial cooperation (former interreG), in the three strands (cross -border, transnational and interregional cooperation), had not only a key role in reducing the barriers posed by the presence of borders (Medeiros, 2011), but has also provided a stable arena for the emergence of euro -regional and macro -regional entities all over europe (Medeiros 2013b;Perkmann, 2003;Perrin, 2010), and more recently, provided a stable ground for the establishment of european Groupings of territorial Cooperation (eGtC) (De sousa, 2013;Cr, 2014).…”

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Is there a rise of the territorial dimension in the EU Cohesion Policy ?

Medeiros¹

2016

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-this paper examines the role and importance of the territorial dimension of eU Cohesion Policy, during its five programming phases (1989 -2020), by relating this implementation process with several territorial elements, and by assessing their constant changes, namely in three main components and related elements: (i) the 'policy strategy' designed to include an integrated territorial perspective; (ii) the 'policy impacts' in territorial development and territorial cohesion, together with the use of territorial impact assessment procedures; and (iii) the focus on one or several 'territorial scales' , specifically through the support to multilevel -governance, territorial cooperation, and place -based strategies. Paradoxically, despite the continuous attempts to detach eU Cohesion Policy from its initial goals of promoting a more cohesive europe into a more neoliberalist paradigm type of 'investment Policy' , our analysis showed that the territorial dimension is still very much anchored with this Policy, and even gaining importance in several territorial related elements, such as the support to territorial cooperation and governance processes, and the use of territorial impact assessment procedures.

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Understanding European Cross-border Cooperation: A Framework for Analysis

Cited by 125 publications

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The Analysis of the Determinants of Sustainable Cross-Border Cooperation and Recommendations on Its Harmonization

The Analysis of the Determinants of Sustainable Cross-Border Cooperation and Recommendations on Its Harmonization

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Is there a rise of the territorial dimension in the EU Cohesion Policy ?

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