scholarly journals Cross-border Cooperation Programmes as a Resource of Social and Economic Development of Barents Region (Case of ENPI Kolarctic Programme)

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (90) ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
Elena Kudryashova ◽  
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Lyubov Zarubina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Barents Region ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship as a Form of Cross-Border Cooperation: Complementarity in EU Border Regions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8463
Author(s):  
Herman T. Wevers ◽  
Cosmina L. Voinea ◽  
Frank de Langen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Regional Problems ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation ◽  
Insight Into

EU border regions continue to face economic and social disadvantages compared to other regions in the same country. Since 1990, the European Commission has been implementing extensive territorial cooperation programs to support EU border regions in solving regional problems and building social cohesion. This study offers a contribution for decreasing the economic and social disadvantages of EU border regions by investigating the complementarity between institutional EU cross-border cooperation and social entrepreneurship. We argue that both concepts build upon similar drivers and characteristics with the aim of creating impact and bringing about change. We test and improve our initially literature-based framework to provide a better insight into how institutional and entrepreneurial processes could benefit from each other. We conduct interviews with experts operating at different governance levels and in various EU countries and border regions. The complementarity between both concepts is confirmed considering a differentiation between governance levels and fields of expertise. The results show that complementarity between the concepts mainly exists in terms of taking advantage of opportunities for a certain effect. The commercial activities of social enterprises are seen as effective, but it is necessary for social enterprises to establish sustainable EU cross-border cooperation and to improve regional social and economic development.

CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION AS A FACTOR OF DEVELOPMENT OF BORDERING TERRITORIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Lesya Hazuda
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Carpathian Region ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

The paper is dedicated to the role and place of cross-border cooperation in supporting sustainable development of neighboring bordering territories of the Carpathian region and member-states of the European Union. The comparative analysis of the indicators showing social and economic development of the regions of neighboring states from the countries on both sides of the border has been conducted. The ethnic affinity is underlined as an important element of development of cross-border cooperation. The need is substantiated in activation of cross-border cooperation through boosting integration and convergence processes with aim to provide balanced development of bordering territories.

scholarly journals Ukraine’s experience and prospects of cross-border cooperation: Legal and economic parameters in the light of sustainable development

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Ustymenko ◽  
Alevtyna Sanchenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Bilateral Treaties ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation ◽  
The Eu

The article provides a general overview of the course of forming Ukraine’s legal and policy basis for cross-border cooperation in connection with economic development. Specific attention is given to its cross-border cooperation with the neighbouring Eastern European countries in the frameworks of bilateral treaties, the Madrid Outline Convention and the EUUkraine Association Agreement. Their cooperation within four Euroregions, supported by the EU European Neighbourhood Instrument, is observed. The complex of cross-border cooperation advantages, shortcomings of their realisation and the current prospects for cross-border cooperation advancement in the light of sustainable development are characterised.

Competing and Cooperating across State Borders in Economic Development

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Lombard ◽  
John C. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
State Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

This essay discusses the evolution of cross-border cooperation in local and state government in the contentious and competitive arena of economic development. Drawing on literatures from economic development and public administration, the authors highlight current issues and conflicts in cross-border cooperation drawing on several cases of successful ventures. In particular, they suggest that state and local governments adopt a new frame for understanding and evaluating cross-border cooperation as economic development “coopertition.” The logic of coopertition in economic development is that while a particular unit of government may not secure a specific economic development project, the odds of securing any project are increased if that government becomes more competitive by cooperating with other governments. Coopertition is thus the result of a need to cooperate to be more competitive.

scholarly journals Regional policy of the European Communities and cross-border cooperation within the South Bohemia Region

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (No. 6) ◽  
pp. 292-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Husák
Keyword(s):  
Regional Policy ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
The South ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Programming Period ◽  
Financial Allocation ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation ◽  
South Bohemia

The paper is focused on the problems of the cross-border cooperation and the regional policy of the European Communities and the implementation of theoretical issues in the South Bohemia Region. The main aim of this paper is to compare the cross-border cooperation and its influence on the regional development of the South Bohemia Region between the 2004–2006 programming period (after the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Communities) and the 2007–2013 programming period. The paper also provides the typology of the realised cross-border projects from the perspectives of the number of projects and also their financial allocation. The results document the increasing importance of the cross-border cooperation and its highly positive impact on the social and economic development of the South Bohemia Region.

Constructing Peripheral Cross-Border Regions in Planning: Territory—Network Interplay in the Barents Region

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 2718-2734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaj Zimmerbauer
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Region ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Spatial Symmetry ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Barents Region ◽  
Thick Region ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation ◽  
Planning Discourse

This paper studies how supranational regions are built through the interplay of borders and networks. The focus is on how territory and network become manifest in planning, and in particular on the actual contexts in planning where the territorial discourse is emphasized. Conceptually, territory–network interplay is linked to recent discussions on relational/territorial space, multidimensionality of sociospatial relations, and thin and thick region building. The Barents Euro-Arctic Region is used here as an example, and the region's recent geoeconomic turn is studied first. The paper concludes that, despite geoeconomization, network is not dominant over territory as a key category in supranational region building. Although the contemporary (new) regionalist planning discourse emphasizes the institutionalization of network-oriented regional (economic) spaces without definitive boundaries, processes such as representing the region in branding or (re)defining who is eligible to join the official structures of cross-border cooperation entail a degree of territorial thinking and make use of the notions of boundedness and spatial symmetry. In planning practices networks commonly create the territory effect and vice versa. However, due to their different ontologies, network and territory can appear as separate or even contradictory discourses as well.

scholarly journals EUROREGION AS THE HIGHEST ORGANIZATIONAL AND FUNCTIONAL LEVEL OF CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Tsekhanovych
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
National Policy ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Economic development is characterized by certain processes occurring in the economy and society. One of them is a transformation in the direction of forming a post-industrial society, the priority of which is a person with his creative and intellectual potential and the conditions of his life. In turn, ensuring the necessary freedom, meeting different needs, realizing the potential of the individual, creating its living space, which cannot be limited to the framework of one country, as well as eliminating signs of periphery, require the development of cross-border cooperation based on its simple and complex organizational forms.In recent years, Ukraine's cross-border cooperation with neighboring countries states pay a lot of attention, which is confirmed as at the highest level both at the state level and at the regional level. Euroregions are becoming a fairly common form of cooperation on the south-western border of Ukraine, representing the basis of cross-border cooperation between regional and district authorities and non-governmental organizations. They do not have an administrative nature, and their activities are based on the coordination of the work of the subjects of this euroregion, which operate in accordance with the legislation of this state. Euroregional policy is an organic component of the national policy politicians. The initial provisions for its formation are the degree of economic efficiency strength of border regions. Such a policy, on the one hand, it is aimed at ensuring the comprehensive development of the regions, and on the other hand, at ensuring the comprehensive development of the regions. preserving the territorial integrity of the state. It is implemented on the basis of developed programs of trade, economic, scientific and technical and cultural cooperation. Active development of Regions is considered as one of the elements of the pan-European priority system, which corresponds to fundamental integrations of states through the integration of Regions. Such activities it provides for the acceleration of socio-economic development of cross-border countries regions, personnel infrastructure training of Regions and the country as a whole for deepening cooperation with the EU, accelerating European processes integrations.

scholarly journals Transborder Cooperation in the Carpathian and Barents Regions: Optimization of Management through Comparative Sociological Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Olesia Benchak
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Region ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Barents Region ◽  
Carpathian Region ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

The article is devoted to analysis of the peculiarities of transborder cooperation in the Carpathian and Barents regions and optimization of its management through comparative sociological analysis. The institutional capacity of managing transborder cooperation, in the Barents region of northern Europe, its focus on increasing human capital and reorienting to cluster development can serve as an example for the development of cross-border cooperation in the Carpathian region. This is evidenced by the multifaceted activities of the Barents Euro-Arctic and Barents Regional Councils for the development of cooperation between the border regions and territorial communities, coordination of priorities and implementation of Barents Co-operation programs at the international, intergovernmental and interregional levels, synchronization of their activities in the Arctic region with EU institutions, cooperation leading international structures in Northern Europe, the Arctic and the Baltic. Such institutional experience in the Barents region indicates the feasibility and high potential impact of establishing a new multilateral international instrument for supporting cross-border cooperation in the Carpathian region. This experience should not be copied, but should be implemented taking into account the specifics of the Carpathian region. The author`s position on the methodological foundations of the sociological study of crossborder interactions as a differentiating and solidarizing factor is formulated. Perspective directions of research of cross-border interactions are seen first of all in: creation of international research collectives; elaboration and improvement of sociological tools for monitoring the state and dynamics of cross-border interactions; constructing a system of indicators that characterize the factors of micro, meso, macro and global levels that determine the content of cross-border interactions. The Ukrainian-Slovak, Ukrainian-Hungarian and Ukrainian-Romanian borders as a special space of social differentiation and integration remain extremely unexplored.

scholarly journals CROSS-BORDER ASPECTS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONVERGENCE OF REGIONS: THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION CONTEXT

2016 ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
К. Kutsab-Bonk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
Transboundary Cooperation ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation ◽  
The Eu

The current stage of European integration of Ukraine is determined by the intensification of partnership relations with the EU in the all planes of socio-economic interaction. In particular, it concerns development of cross-border cooperation and capacity of cross-border markets potential. Because of that the problems of cross-border cooperation between Ukraine and EU today becomes more urgent. One of the key criteria of successful cross-border cooperation between Ukraine and the EU is the alignment of proportions of economic development on different sides of the border. In this sense, an important indicator of the quality of transboundary cooperation is cross-border convergence of regions. It reflects the socio-economic effect from implementation of transboundary projects and plays an important role in the context of leveling the existing threats and challenges of cross-border economic, social and information security. Alignment the quality of life and standards of economic development on different sides of the border eliminates a number of risks associated with the spread of destructive forms of cross-border cooperation, such as smuggling at cross-border markets, illegal labor migration, corruption at the border crossing etc. The priority instrument of transboundary convergence spreading is the institutionalization of cross-border space. First of all it concerns the formation of the legal support, oriented to the deployment of convergent processes. In addition, institutionalization concern such key elements of transboundary cooperation as the functioning of cross-border institutions, the eradication of transboundary institutional dysfunction, and a decrease the level of transaction costs of participants of cross-border markets. Important way to stimulation of cross-border convergence is the formation of joint cross-border brands for each of cross-border regions between Ukraine and the EU. On this basis, should be developed appropriate strategies for development of cross-border markets. Such strategies should ensure the maximum use of socio-economic potential of corresponding cross-border regions, and also should form grounds for the spread of convergent processes within them.

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