Discussion panel 1, moderated by Mónika Simon, continued with presentation of the project by the lead partner Mr Peter Just (Saxon State Ministry of for Regional Development) and Mr Martin Reents. It was followed by the presentation of pilot areas and pilots of the project partners: Mr Pavel Branda (Project Manager of the Euroregion Nisa) and Mr Maciej Zathey (Director of the Institute for Territorial Development) presented Pilot 1 on integrated cross-border strategy development in the Three Country Area (CZ-PL-DE), and emphasized: one of the biggest challenges is changing the border-consciousness of the people living in the region. The development of a governance model is also part of the plans. Ms Romina Kocina (Director of the EGTC GO) presented Pilot 3 on cross-border development of sustainable and slow tourism at the Italian-Slovenian border, Mr Sören Bollmann (Coordinator of the Frankfurt-Slubice Cooperation Centre) gave a presentation on Pilot 2 – Participatory governance for transition management in cross-border twin-cities. They plan to realise twin city dialogue forums to address the needs of cross-border communities and serve as a best practice example for other cross-border twin cities in Europe. Ms Katja Rosner (Programme Coordinator, State Government of Upper Austria) addressed the facilitation of joint management of border obstacles connected to Pilot 2. Their aim is to identify legal objectives in the border area and introduce solutions to tackle these obstacles. Mr Péter Nagy (Director of Ister-Granum EGTC) provided a presentation of Pilot 4 on cross-border marketing and promotion of local products, where emphasised the importance to promote support mechanism for cross-border sales and distribution of local/agricultural products in the Ister Granum region as well as reduce the administrative and legal obstacles and facilitate the establishment of cross-border supply chains.