TEIN conferentie 2024

Welcome by the Mayor of Maastricht Wim Hillenaar 

Welcome remarks by hosts Anne Thevenet (TEIN), Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly (BIG), Anouk Bollen (ITEM) 

Ricardo Ferreira DG REGIO

Moderator: Martin Unfried, senior researcher, ITEM, Maastricht University 

The panel will discuss the future strategy and funding instruments for cohesion policy with a focus on in cross-border regions. In particular, the panel will discuss the future of Interreg programmes with respect to current deficiencies and strengths and the role of other EU funds.

Expected panellists:

1. Karl-Heinz Lambertz, High-level working group on future of cohesion policy
2. Ricardo Ferreira, DG REGIO
3. Bram de Kort, Director Interreg Flanders-The Netherlands

Moderator: Martin Unfried 

Panellists: 

1.  Joanna Kurowska, WSB  

1.  Gyula Ocskay, CESCI 

1. Clarisse Klauber, Euro-Institut  

1. Pim Mertens, ITEM 

A new instrument has been proposed to boost cross-border cooperation in Europe and to foster development in border regions: Facilitating Cross-Border Solutions. This panel will present insights from different border regions across Europe and assess what the impact would be. Insights from border regions in the Benelux territory, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, France and Austria by ITEM, CESCI, WSB, Euro-Institut, Faculty of Public Administration – University of Ljubljana, Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences.

Moderator: Math Noortmann

Cross-border cooperation: structural inhibitors and functional enablers

In this panel we discuss aspects that facilitate or impede cross-border cooperation. The panellist in this panel address (inter alia) such dogmas and sacred cows as national sovereignty and competitive advantage. But the panel also exhibit sectoral success in the fields of administration, education, entrepreneurship and crime control.

1. Vincent Pijnenburg, Professor in Cross-Border Regional Development Fontys Hogeschool (Venlo), President of the Business Club Maas Rhein,
2. Patrick Voss, Staff advisor International Affairs at Police Netherlands (Region Limburg), Lecturer Criminal Law Maastricht University,
3. Marcel Schumacher, Director of the Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Boardmember of Very Contemporary, the Network of Contemporary Art Venues in the Meuse-Rhine Region

Moderator: Birte Wassenberg, (Sciences Po Strasbourg) 

1. Bernard Reitel (University of Artois): Cross-border regions as laboratories for European integration in the perspective of the European elections 2024: a comparison of the Franco-German and Franco-Belgian borderlands
2. Birte Wassenberg (Sciences Po Strasbourg): European narratives at the Franco-German border (Upper Rhine and Greater Region) in the light of European Elections 2024
3. Fabienne Leloup (UCLouvain): What future in terms of cooperation for a pioneering cross-border region? A study at the Franco-Walloon border
4. Martin Unfried (ITEM – University Maastricht): The cross-border effects in political plans for European Parliament Elections 2024: quo vadis?

Sebastian Gröning- von Thüna, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Germany 

Moderator: Martin Unfried

1. Michael Frey (HS Kehl): Towards de-territorialised cross-border cooperation: Exceptional rules for cross-border situations without territorial differentiation criteria
2. Jean-Francois Clouzet (Savoie Mont-Blanc University) & Tamara Espineira-Guirao (Sciences Po Rennes): A self-centered approach of EU instruments: Active subsidiarity in cross-border cooperation
3. Zsuzsanna Fejes (University of Public Services): Evaluation and the Future of Cross-border Cooperation in Hungary
4. Facilitating Cross-Border Solutions: new instrument from a horizontal dimension – prof. Dr. Joachim Beck (FH Kehl), dr. Loth van der Auwermeulen (UHasselt), Pim Mertens & Martin Unfried (ITEM)

1. Jordi Cicres (University of Girona): Cross-border Cooperation and the Maintenance and Revitalization of Minority Languages
2. Dmitry Pakhomov The Role of Tourism in the Cross-Border Cooperation between the West Pomeranian Voivodship in Poland and Mecklenburg Pomerania in Germany
3. Max Klöters (Fontys Venlo): Adapting new horizons: Unravelling individual readiness in cross-border collaboration within the Dutch-German Borderland
4. Ahmed Bakry (Kassel University): Measuring the cross-border integration level through the cross-border cultural powers. The case studies of the Basque, Flemish, and Upper Rhine cross-border regions in the EU

panelists:

1. Pim Mertens (ITEM, Maastricht University): Cross-border Cooperation & Crisis Management: Results related to Floods and Pandemic
2. Joanna Kurowska-Pysz (AWSB): Managing cross-border projects towards more resilient cooperation in borderlands. The post-pandemic perspective
3. Ruslan Zhechkov (Technopolis): Strengthening the Resilience of EU Border Regions
4. Marian Ramakers (EMRIC): Crisis Management from a practitioner’s view

1. Caroline Fischer & Le Anh Long (University Twente): Pooling Cross-border Human Resources in the Healthcare Sector
2. Oskar J. Bronsgeest & Sofie Moresi (Fontys Venlo): Learning organizations in a cross-border context: What are the leadership challenges of cross-border business development in the Dutch-German borderland?
3. Margot Bonnafous & Fabienne Schimek (Euro-Institut): Grasping crises as a whole – About current challenges and perspectives in light of the labour market transformation in the Upper Rhine Region

1. Svetlana Buko (SASS FUDS) & Giustina Selvelli (University of Ljubljana): Exploring the Value of Cross-Border Business Curricula: A Case Study of the Collaborative Design on the Slovenian-Italian Border for MA Level Program in Intercultural Management
2. Susanne Sivonen (ITEM): Towards a European degree for cross-border mobility?
3. Experiences from the Project EMRLingua, Euregio Meuse-Rhine