For the Europeanisation of Ukrainian borders
With cross-border cooperation for the Europeanisation of Ukrainian borders
In November 2020 the project called “With cross-border cooperation for the Europeanisation of Ukrainian borders” was launched with the support of the International Visegrad Fund. The project was led by CESCI in collaboration with the State University «Uzhgorod National University» (Faculty of Law), Institute of Economic and Legal Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IELR NASU), University of Presov, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Political Science, Stanisław Leszczycki Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences and the Technical University of Liberec.
The main objective of the project was to contribute to the Europeanisation of the Ukrainian borders by boosting cross-border cooperation. For this end a comparative analysis was elaborated which examined the legal framework governing the cross-border cooperation of the Visegrad countries, and which provided a basis for the formulation of some drafting recommendations for the amendments of existing legislation of Ukraine. Furthermore, in order to improve the capacity of local actors, a training material was also developed, which was planned to be also used in practice during the first training on CBC organised within the project. However, due to the pandemic and the war, the training and the planned international conference could not be organised. Instead almost 7 tons of food and 80 boxes of medical equipment were shipped within the frameworks of the project to help those living in the region.
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe. For more information please visit: www.visegradfund.org.
Kick-off seminar
With the support of the International Visegrad Fund, the six project partners representing National Academies of Sciences, Universities and CBC-drivers of the V4 countries and Ukraine got together to launch a project for the Europeanisation of Ukrainian borders. The online kick-off seminar – attended by more than 60 participants – offered a gap-filling platform for academics, CBC practitioners and young professionals to meet and share the most state of the art knowledge on driving cross-border cooperation.
The kick-off seminar’s aim was to place the project in the Europeanisation process of the Ukrainian cross-border cooperation. For this purpose, the speakers gave an overview on:
- the association agreement of Ukraine and its relevance for cross-border cooperation;
- the relevance of cross-border cooperation within the framework of the new Eastern partnership policy of the EU;
- the experiences of CBC of Poland, Slovakia and Hungary with Ukraine;
- the legal background of CBC in Ukraine, and
- the content and the objectives of the project.
The detailed agenda can be accessed here, from where also the presentations can be downloaded.
Technical meeting
Towards the half-time of the project, the partners organized an online meeting to discuss the experience gained so far during the implementation of the project and to organize the following tasks.
On the basis of the forthcoming training material, the organization of the training planned for the autumn has started and the development of the recommendations for Ukraine will be carried out. All results will be reported here.
Training
The war in Ukraine made it impossible to organize the planned training.
International conference
The war in Ukraine made it impossible to organize the planned conference.
Humanitarian Aid
As the planned training and international conference could not be organized due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then the Russian-Ukrainian war, in agreement with the International Visegrad Fund and the project partners, almost 7 tons of food and 80 boxes of medical equipment were shipped within the frameworks of the project to help those living in the region.
Comparative analysis on the competencies of regional and local authorities in the field of CBC of the 5 countries
With our partners we wrote a comparative analysis of the competencies of regional and local authorities in the Visegrad countries and Ukraine within the project "With cross-border cooperation for the Europeanisation of Ukrainian borders". The aim of the partners was to analyse the legal background of cross-border activities of local and regional authorities of the Visegrad Four countries (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary) and Ukraine with a view to identifying those V4 solutions and models which can be adapted to Ukraine.
Summary in Ukrainian of the Comparative analysis on the competencies of regional and local authorities in the field of CBC
Within the project "With cross-border cooperation for the Europeanisation of Ukrainian borders" a comparative analysis had been written on the competencies of regional and local authorities in the Visegrad countries and Ukraine. A summary of the main findings of this analysis is now published in Ukrainian.
Training material to improve the capacity of Ukrainian local actors
Our project, started in November 2020, called “With cross-border cooperation for the Europeanisation of Ukrainian borders” with the support of the International Visegrad Fund reached its next milestone: our training material to help build cross-border cooperation has been completed.
Key proposals, recommendations and commentaries regarding the Draft Law of Ukraine “On Transfrontier Co-operation”
The document systematically analyzes the Draft Law suggesting recommendations in connection with 14 articles all in all. The compilation can be read both in English and in Ukrainian.
Honlapunk a Külgazdasági és Külügyminisztérium támogatásával készült.
