Frontier Value magazine (HU-SK)

As the title of the project (HUSK 1001/2.5.2/0057: Frontier Value) represents, the project partners regard cross-border cooperation as an additional opportunity or added value in the field of regional development. Since 1999 nearly 250 million euros have been absorbed in the Hungarian-Slovakian border region, within the confines of the Phare CBC, Interreg European Territorial Cooperation programmes. As expected, during the next budgetary period, starting in 2014, further significant amount of money will be allocated in the above region. The aim of the project is facilitating the efficient and successful use of these funds by supporting the realisation of long term sustainable projects.

The Frontier-Value Magazine was published in December 2012 thanks to the partnership composed by CESCI and Forum Institute. It introduces the 10 most successful initiatives of the Hungarian-Slovakian border region (in Hungarian and Slovak). The editors personally visited the concerned project sites . The 52-page publication, came out in 1000 examples was posted to the local actors involved in cross-border cooperation by April 2013.

List of the presented initiatives:

• Šamorín– “We are all in the same boat”
• Environment and Water Management of Northern Hungary– Cooperation in field of water management and environmental protection
• Pálháza – Sárospatak–Building up a cross- border, continuous cycle path with signposts by linking the extant ones
• Füzér – Slanec– Tourist destination around the Nagy-Milic
• Komárom– Komárno Touch land on two sides
• Forum Institute– The third sector on the two sides of the border
• Aggteleki Nation Park– The Gömör-Torna karst
• Duna-Ipoly National Park – Ipel’ Union– Value focused development of the Ipoly Valley
• Abaúj in Abaúj– Tourism without borders
• Fiľakovo– Exemplary regional development in Nógrád – Novohrad