Participants of the Conference will discuss current state of cross-border cooperation, possible trends and models of its further development, ways of joint planning of border areas development. Like the previous years, the experience of cross-border cooperation of the host region - the Pskov region will be emphasized.
During the Conference the following issues will be discussed:
- prospects of the European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument after 2013, search for an optimal model of cross-border cooperation programmes development;
- cooperation in the Baltic Sea region. Agenda and priorities of the presidency of the Russian Federation in the Baltic Sea States Council in 2012-2013;
- particularities of cross-border cooperation: tourism as the main priority, ecology, transport and logistics projects and development of border infrastructure.
- cooperation between local authorities and between businesses in border regions.
Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation is currently running two projects, funded by ENPI, joint Estonian-Russian-Latvian cooperation projects "Greenman" and "People with Nature", which will also be presented during the conference.
Read more about the conference: http://investa.spb.ru/eng/act/73/317/information_letter.html
Margit Säre
Project manager
margit @ ctc.ee