Seminars
Seminar 8
Cross-border and transnational co-operation for local employment development
Copenhagen, Denmark, 7–8 July 2005
The creation of the Single European Market, the accession of New Member States and improvements in transport infrastructure remove barriers to mobility as well as increasing the opportunities for cross-border trade and investment—ultimately creating new employment opportunities. These developments create new potential and opportunities for employment development as well as creating new risks and threats. Cross-border localities are those most likely to face such opportunities, risks and threats. European policy and programmes have provided support to cross-border localities to enable them to exploit the new potential and opportunities, as well as countering any threats. These have included INTERREG, Phare, TEPs and EURES amongst others. Elements of these programmes (as well as national and regional ones) have initiated and/or supported local partnership activity to develop employment. Other activity has been initiated by local actors themselves.
The purpose of this theme and seminar was to identify and validate the lessons learned from such activity and to consider the context in which examples of good practice are successful.
Seminar documents
- Agenda [pdf, en, 26kb]
- Background note [pdf, en, 42kb]
Examples of good practice
- Basel, Switzerland – BioValley, the Life Sciences Network [pdf, en, 23kb]
- Haparanda, Sweden, and Tornio, Finland – Provincia Bothniensis Haparanda-Tornio [pdf, en, 26kb]
- Upper Rhine Region, Northwest Switzerland, Baden and Palatinate (Germany), Alsacia (France) – INFOBEST: Information and advice centre for transborder questions [pdf, en, 24kb]
- Maastricht, Netherlands – City of Maastricht [pdf, en, 21kb]
- Mühlviertel, Austria – EUREGIO Bayerischer Wald/Böhmerwald – Regionalmanagement Mühlviertel [pdf, en, 27kb]
- Öresund, Denmark – Cross-border co-operation in Öresund region [pdf, en, 21kb]
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK – Special EU Programmes Body [pdf, en, 21kb]
- Styria, Austria, and northern Slovenia – Styria-Slovenia Territorial Employment Pact [pdf, en, 21kb]
- Femern Belt, Denmark/Germany – GAF: Developing a future cross-border public employment service in the region of Femern Belt [pdf, en, 21kb]
Seminar presentations
- The local in the cross-border context (Peter Lloyd) [ppt, en, 76kb]
- Local employment development, future cohesion policy, and transnational co-operation: brief overview (Dominic Rice, DG Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities Unit A/4) [ppt, en, 117kb]
- Biovalley: The life sciences network (Dr Beat E Glatthaar) [ppt, en, 1.23mb]
- INFOBEST PALMRAIN (Caroline Winter) [ppt, en, 7.03mb]
- EUREGIO Bayerischer Wald – Böhmerwald, Regionalmanagement Mühlviertel (Christian Mayer, Regional manager for employment) [ppt, en, 2.28mb]
- Haparanda/Tornio [ppt, en, 9.17mb]
- GAF (Flemming Larssen)[ppt, en, 84b]
- Cross Border Pact Slovenia-Styria (Helga Kainer) [ppt, en, 2.64mb]
- Euregio Maas-Rhine [ppt, en, 2.85mb]
- Öresund Commitee [ppt, en, 407kb]
- Labour and business mobility in Öresund (Michael Mødekjær) [ppt, en, 600kb]
- Cross-border labour markets (Roger Vickerman, Centre for European, Regional and Transport Economics, University of Kent) [ppt, en, 493kb]
- Special EU Programmes Body (Brian Liggett, Human Resources Manager, SEUPB) [ppt, en, 6.05mb]
Seminar photographs
Photographs of the seminar in Copenhagen will be made available at a later date.
