Organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the last EGTC workshop of 2025 took place between November 4 and 5 in Villánykövesd. The host of the EGTC workshop was Pannon EGTC, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year and, in addition to its successful international projects, has been increasingly active in the Western Balkans in recent years.

The professional program was opened by dr. Gabriella Solymosi-Dobi, head of the Regional and Cross-Border Development Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. After her welcoming remarks, the director of the host, Pannon EGTC, dr. Péter Merza, gave a presentation on the current activities of the EGTC, with a special focus on the four universities that recently joined the grouping, three of which are located outside of the European Union, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dr. Ágnes Tóthné Gróf joined the discussion on EGTC members from third countries and presented the new b-solutions pilot project of the Banat-Triplex Confinium EGTC, which aims to include Serbian members in an EGTC. In connection with the Pannon EGTC’s project implemented as part of the Resilient Borders initiative, Kitti Dubniczki and Mátyás Jaschitz, directors of CESCI, moderated a short discussion on the scope of action available to EGTCs in areas of development where national authorities have primary jurisdiction. To conclude the first professional block, Dániel Ablonczy, director, presented the newly formed BOTILA EGTC. He also briefly introduced two future EGTCs currently in the process of being established, one in the Slovak and one in the Romanian border region.