A cooperation agreement is signed between the University of Public Service and the Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives
The University of Public Service (UPS) and the Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives (CESCI) signed an inter-institutional agreement on March 25, 2024, in the premises of the University. The agreement was signed by Dr. Balázs Bartóki-Gönczy, associate professor, deputy ...
Watch the introductory short film of the ACCESS project!
The introductory short film of the ACCESS project can be viewed in three languages ...
CESCI’s director talked about cross-border legal accessibility at the EUSDR National Hearing
Mátyás Jaschitz, the director of the Central European Service for Cross-border Initiatives (CESCI) participated in this year’s EUSDR National Hearing, which took place on March 13, 2024, at the European Youth Centre Budapest. This year's event, inspired by the Danube ...
CESCI took part in the I3 2B call for capacity building
In 2024, CESCI expanded its portfolio to include the development of innovation capacity building, providing professional support in the February call for capacity building I3 2B of the Interregional Innovation Investment Facility ...
The mechanism addressing cross-border obstacles is back on the agenda
In 2015 the Luxembourg Presidency triggered the development of an EU mechanism which may facilitate the elimination of the legal and administrative obstacles experienced by the stakeholders of the border institutions and the citizens during their cross-border mobility. The tool ...
CESCI prepared the urban development concept for Šahy
As a result of nearly a year of joint design, on February 27, 2024, Šahy’s urban development concept, prepared by the Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives (CESCI), was presented to the public. The nearly 130 page document discusses in ...
The Programming Committee of the Slovenian-Hungarian Joint Fund held its meeting in Felsőszölnök in the presence of CESCI
With the presence of the press, on February 14, 2024 the bilateral Programming Committee, which is working on launching the programme belonging to the Slovenian-Hungarian joint fund launched by the two prime ministers agreement in 2022, held its meeting in ...
Introducing the European Cross-Border Platform
In order to further enhance cross-border cooperation and support the unique needs of border regions across Europe, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) has announced the establishment of the European Cross-Border Platform of which CESCI is an important ally ...
Brief report on the survey efforts of the #ACCESS project
The #ACCESS project aims to identify and eliminate legal and administrative barriers hindering cooperation across the Slovak-Hungarian border. To collect crucial data, residents of the border region are invited to participate in five thematic surveys tailored to those who moved ...
Cross-Border Review 2023
The 'Cross-Border Review 2023' is CESCI's tenth yearbook, which is published this year in collaboration with the UPS-CESCI Research Group of Cross-Border Cooperation. The study volume analyses the importance of cross-border cooperation, emphasising knowledge exchange and social innovation. The authors ...
We attended the ITEM annual conference
On November 17, 2023, the Maastricht-based ITEM held its annual conference in the Netherlands. In the framework of the day-long event organised in the South-Holland Provincial House in The Hague, legal and technical obstacles that traditionally stand in the way ...
EGTC-Workshop 2023/2 (Nógrádgárdony)
This year's second EGTC workshop was organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on December 7-8, 2023, at the Főnix Wellness Resort in Nógrádgárdony. The choice of location was born out of the desire to see the recently ...
Breaking down barriers: #ACCESS project’s interviews unveil key legal and administrative obstacles
The #ACCESS project is committed to help cross-border cooperation between the Slovak Republic and Hungary through identifying and solving the still persisting administrative and legal obstacles. In order to achieve this, apart from conducting surveys involving the general public living ...
The first winners of the #ACCESS lottery are selected
In compliance with the rules of the game and the GDPR regulation, the first five winners of the lottery published within the framework of the project #ACCESS were selected on 30 November, 2023 ...
Recent B-solutions projects on water tourism
CESCI has compiled a study and organised a conference within the framework of the B-Solutions project coordinated by the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR). As it is well known, the B-Solutions project, with the involvement of local actors, looks ...
EU integration of Ukraine across borders. International conference in Košice with the support of the International Visegrad Fund
Within the framework of the annual events of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), with the financial support of the International Visegrad Fund, CESCI organised an international conference on the role of cross-border cooperation in EU integration of Ukraine ...
Art of cooperation – A conference and a new platform for exchanges in Central and Eastern Europe
On 17 and 18 October, the Széchenyi Programme Office giving home to the Joint Secretariats of several cross-border programmes organised an extremely successful international conference convening the representatives of the Central and Eastern European Interreg CBC, IPA, NEXT and transnational ...
Report on the extraordinary general assembly of CESCI
The Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives (CESCI) held its extraordinary general meeting online on October 12, 2023, during which decisions were made primarily on membership and presidency matters ...
The UPS-CESCI Research Group was represented at the TEIN General Assembly
TEIN’s General Assembly was held on 2023 September 6th at the European University Viadrina, situated on the German-Polish border, where the UPS-CESCI Research Group of Cross-Border Cooperation, as a member of TEIN was represented by Dr. Zsuzsanna Fejes ...
#ACCESS: Survey
The main goal of the survey is to unfold those obstacles making the interactions at the Hungarian-Slovak border difficult ...
Borderlands facing a polycrisis in the 21st century, Resilience and future perspectives of cross-border relations
Within the framework of the Jean Monnet Network project ‘Borders, Human-to-Military Security Database’ led by the University of Victoria (Canada), the Centre for Regional and Borderlands Studies of the University of Wrocław, the University of Opole and the Saarland University ...
Report on CESCI’s study tour to Liberec in 2023
Following its now tradition, the Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives organised a study trip between September 12-15, 2023, this time with the Liberec center as part of its services to its members. The Czech city, which provided also the ...
Anniversary conference on territorial and inter-organisational cooperation
In 2023, the Research Institute on Territorial and Inter-Organizational Cooperation of the WSB University celebrated its 5th anniversary with a conference held in Brenna, Poland. CESCI was among the partners of the event and delegated a keynote speaker thereto ...
Report on the the kick-off conference of the #ACCESS project
The kick-off conference of the #ACCESS project took place in Košice on 14 September 2023. The event brought together more than 90 participants from the Slovak-Hungarian border region, including the representatives of local and regional municipalities, EGTCs, development agencies, universities, ...
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| The content is only available in Hungarian. A budapesti székhelyű CESCI PROJEKTMENEDZSER állást hirdet! Amennyiben, szívesen foglalkoznál határ menti és transznacionális projektek előkészítésével és adminisztratív koordinálásával, nemzetközi partnerségek építésével és koordinálásával, különböző pénzügyi források feltérképezésével: Szeretettel várunk a CESCI-nél, ...
EU integration of Ukraine across borders – with the help of the V4
Within the framework of the project 'EU integration of Ukraine across borders - with the help of the V4', funded by the International Visegrad Fund, the partners aimed to organise two events during the annual event of the Association of ...
#ACCESS project: Kick-off conference
The EU integration process that the independent Slovak Republic and Hungary has been going through together, made the state border symbolic and the cross-border flows lively between the two countries. At the same time, everyday commuting and the access to ...
A new EGTC is being formed on the Hungarian-Slovak border
So far, the largest number of European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation in the EU have been established on the Hungarian-Slovak border, 15 all in all. At the beginning of 2023, 22 Hungarian and 33 Slovak local government leaders declared their ...
CESCI’s annual General Assembly in 2023
On 31 May 2023, CESCI held its annual General Assembly meeting in person, at the Hotel Thermal Balance in Lenti. Both the professional programme prior to the meeting and the General Assembly was attended by a high number of members ...
b-solutions: Online info session
The Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) will host an online info session on Wednesday 28 June (11:30-12:15, CEST) to present the b-solutions initiative addressing border regions ...
Publication of a book ‘Public Policies for Territorial Cohesion’ by Eduardo Medeiros and collective of authors
Eduardo Medeiros and a collective of authors published a very interesting and useful book with title, 'Public Policies for Territorial Cohesion' that analyses the issues around territorial cohesion. The book aims to offer a profound critical research of territorial cohesion ...
A day dedicated to local products
CESCI, together with the Mura Region EGTC and the Pannon EGTC, organised a professional event on the cross-border trade of local products in Lenti on 30 May 2023, with the support of the Association of European Border Regions and the ...
A day about local products
The final conference of B-Solutions' project "CrossMarkets 2.0 – Enhance cross-border selling at local farmers' markets" will take place on May 30, 2023, in Lenti ...
CESCI to prepare the development concept of Šahy
Following previous examples, CESCI will prepare a development concept for Šahy, located in southern Slovakia, based on the agreement signed between Pál Zachar, Mayor of the city, and Gyula Ocskay, Secretary General of the Budapest-based association, on 21 March 2023 ...
Local products, sustainable and flexible regional food systems & cross-border cooperation
The central theme of the 2023 milestone of the Oradea Process is local products, as well as sustainable and flexible regional food systems in cross-border cooperation. The relevance of the topic is not only due to the growing interest in ...
Close cooperation with the Ukrainian partners persists. A visit to Uzhhorod
On 19 April, the Secretary General of our association visited Uzhhorod, where several meetings were held to prepare the future cooperation between CESCI and its Ukrainian partners ...
Tackling cross-border challenges – seminar on legal and administrative obstacles at the Committee of the Regions
On 17 April 2023, together with the members of the European Cross-Border Citizens’ Alliance, the Committee of the Regions (CoR) organised a seminar dedicated to the legal and administrative obstacles hindering cross-border mobility and integration. The event formed part of ...
Határtalanul (Without borders) event in Nyíradony
On 9 March 2023, the Gate to Europe EGTC organised an event called “Without borders: the meeting of member settlements and traditional groups of the Gate to Europe EGTC” in the Forest Harmony Visitor Centre in Nyíradony ...
EGTC-Workshop 2023/1 (Budapest)
The first EGTC workshop of 2023 took place in Budapest, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFA) on 29 March 2023, jointly organised and financed by the MFA and CESCI ...
Report on the „Vibrant Cross-Border Labour Markets” conference
On 18 and 19 January 2023 the European Commission organised in Brussels a conference titled “Vibrant Cross-Border Labour Markets” to discuss the inherent potentials and challenges of cross-border employment ...
Via Carpatia development workshop
The Via Carpathia European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation organised a meeting in Košice on 9 February 2023, with the goal of developing tourism-related projects planned for the current programming period, and organising their regional-level management. The meeting focused on building ...
B-solutions promotion event
AEBR and CESCI jointly organised a workshop on 1st February 2023, in order to present the latest calls for proposals of the b-solutions project. First, Cinzia Dellagiacoma, the Project and Communication Manager of AEBR, welcomed the guests and provided an ...
Cross-Border Review 2022
This issue of the Cross-Border Review has been compiled during a rapidly changing geopolitical environment in Europe and the world in general. Nevertheless, as this edition of the Cross-Border Review demonstrates, cross-border cooperation and intercultural dialogue are alive and well ...
The founding document of the cross-border “Cross-border World Heritage Fertő-Neusiedler See Consultative Council” was signed
In the framework of the Common Heritage (ATHU0136) project, based on the feasibility study prepared by CESCI, the preparation of the cross-border cooperation agreement between the "Fertő-táj World Heritage Hungarian Council" in Hungary and the "Verein Welterbe Neusiedler See" in ...
Cross-border cooperation in crisis – international scientific workshop at the Andrássy University Budapest
The Andrássy University Budapest organised a two-day workshop on 21 and 22 October 2022 dedicated to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on cross-border cooperation within the EU, where the UPS-CESCI Research Group of CBC was also represented ...
Partnership building workshops of the Via Carpatia EGTC
On the 15th and 29th of November the Slovak-Hungarian Via Carpatia EGTC organised the first partnership building workshops designed to prepare the proposals for the next Interreg CBC calls. Several dozens of regional stakeholders attended the workshops and proposed project ...
The EGTC Award was handed in 2022 to the Italian-Slovenian EGTC GO and the Slovak-Hungarian Pons Danubii EGTC
The EGTC Platform established in 2011 by the Committee of the Regions held its annual meeting in Liberec, Czechia on 24 and 25 November this year. The meeting was hosted by Liberec Region and the tri-national Euroregion Neisse-Nisa-Nysa ...
Report on the Jean Monet Network’s Workshop
A two-day conference was held between 30th November and 1st December in Strasbourg, France in the frames of the EU-supported Jean Monet Network. This was the second workshop in relation to the Borders and Human Security to Military Security Database ...
Heal Now closing conference
The INTERREG V-A AT-HU 2014-2020 project HEAL NOW is the first cooperation initiative in the field of healthcare in this border region. The main objective of the project started in 2020 was to improve health care quality for citizen living ...
Workshops on regional development
A series of workshops with a long-term outlook on national regional development was organised in October and November 2022 ...
10th anniversary of Rába-Danube-Váh EGTC
The 5th Danube Conference was organised by the RDV EGTC at the Star Fortress (Csillagerőd) in Komárom on 21 October 2022, which was also the celebration of the grouping’s 10th anniversary ...
(Re-)Bordering Tendencies in (Post-)Pandemic Europe. Covid-19, Borderless Europe and Cross-border Governance in the EU
The joint Research Group of Cross-Border Cooperation of the University of Public Service and CESCI offers the opportunity for students to take part in a series of lectures held by Prof. dr Jarosław Jańczak on different border studies topics during ...
EGTC-Workshop 2022/2 (Ludányhalászi)
The second EGTC Workshop of 2022 took place in Ludányhalászi, at the invitation of the Ipoly-Valley EGTC. The workshop, apart from providing a venue for professional programmes, was also a celebration of the fifth birthday of the EGTC ...
The 20th anniversary of the Hungarian Regional Science Association’s conference
The 20th anniversary of the Hungarian Regional Science Association's annual meeting and conference was held in Budapest. At the event, the Research Group of Cross-Border Cooperation of the National University of Public Service and CESCI organized a special section entitled ...
CESCI’s “PET Cup”
Nowadays, the garbage is produced in ever greater quantities and with increasingly dangerous contents which is becoming an increasingly serious global problem, for which humanity is simply not prepared to manage. The garbage around us often floods fields, forests, and ...
Pálfi István Memorial Conference (2022)
On 29th September 2022, the Pálfi István Regional Development Foundation and the Edutus University jointly organized a memorial conference marked by the name of the late István Pálfi, who earned timeless merits for the promotion of cross-border cooperation, in the ...
AEBR Annual Events (2022): “New solutions for the future of cross-border regions”
The AEBR Annual Events 2022 took place in Szeged and Novi Sad between 28 September and 2 October 2022, with a special focus on the European Year of Youth and its related aspects such as cross-border cooperation, cross-border public services, ...
5th Monošter Forum
In cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Budapest and the Embassy of Hungary in Ljubljana, CESCI organised the fifth edition of the Monošter (Szentgotthárd) Forum on 4 October 2022. The forum was organised after a four-year ...
The b-solutions 2.0 call for proposals is open until 21 October
b-solutions is an initiative of the European Commission’s DG REGIO and the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) addressing local actors in border regions. Eligible applicants are public bodies and cross-border structures ...
A Romania-Hungary Cross-Border Programming Conference was held in Jimbolia
Organized by the Banat-Triplex Confinium EGTC, a Romania-Hungary Programming Conference was held in Jimbolia on September 27, 2022 at the request of the Romanian member municipalities of the EGTC ...
Report on CESCI’s study tour to Gorizia in 2022
The Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives organised this year again its study tour for its members, which is slowly becoming a tradition. The study tour took place between the 6th and 9th of September 2022 in the Italian-Slovenian border ...
The Research Group of Cross-Border Cooperation had its next meeting
The Research Group of Cross-Border Cooperation, established on 24 March 2022 in cooperation with the National University of Public Service and the Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives (CESCI), held its next meeting on 27 June 2022 to schedule the ...
To put cross-border cooperation back into the heart of the European project. Joint declaration of AEBR, MOT and CESCI
Considering the unfavourable evolution of the European discourse on open borders, the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), the Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT) and the Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives (CESCI) adopted a joint political declaration with an aim ...
Cross-border territories: fatalism or resilience?
In cooperation with the European Committee of the Regions and the European Commission, under the umbrella of the French Presidency of the EU, the Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT) organised the pan-European Borders Forum second time. The event, attracting approximately 150 ...
Oradea Process in 2022
On the 9th of June 2022, together with the Initiatives France Central and Eastern Europe (IFECO), the French Institute in Budapest and Bucharest, CESCI organised a seminar within the framework of the Process of Oradea. The goal of initiative is ...
Focus Group on the Romanian-Hungarian border
The Jean Monnet network « Borders in motion » (Frontem) was launched on 18 November 2019. Under the leadership of Sciences Po Strasbourg, the project aims to benchmark of and to provide a tool-kit on different border management systems and ...
CESCI’s annual General Assembly
CESCI held this year’s annual General Assembly on 25 May at the French Institute in Budapest, this time with the members in person again following the online meetings during the pandemic. A high number of the members or their representatives ...
Conference on cross-border spatial monitoring
Statistics more often than not stop at the border and thus building comparable datasets which are essential for proper cross-border spatial planning is extremely difficult. This is why CESCI together with its partners, the MOT and the French Institute in ...
EGTC-Workshop 2022/1 (Budapest)
The first EGTC workshop was organised this year in Budapest. The main topics of the workshop were the new programming period and the role of the EGTCs in regional development ...
A new call for b-solutions 2.0 was released
The initiative of the European Commission and AEBR called b-solutions has entered a new phase. The current call is open to public institutions and cross-border structures (including EGTCs) facing legal and administrative obstacles to cross-border cooperation, on the following topics: ...
The Strasbourg 3’s Coalition meeting in Eupen
Following their Strasbourg declaration of October 7, 2021, AEBR, MOT and CESCI met in Eupen (BE) on April 5 and 6, 2022, at the invitation of Karl Heinz Lambertz, President of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community of Belgium, President ...
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 ...
Cooperation action plan in support of active aging
On March 23, 2022, an international online consultation was initiated by the Slovenian network "Central European Seniors eServices Guide 55+" to allow participants to develop their joint activities for the year 2022 on active aging ...
A joint Research Group of Cross-Border Cooperation between the National University of Public Service and CESCI has been established
On 24 March 2022, the joint Research Group of Cross-Border Cooperation between the National University of Public Service and CESCI has been established ...
Conference on cross-border spatial monitoring
An international conference on cross-border territorial monitoring, co-organized by CESCI, the MOT and the French Institute in Budapest taking place on 24-25 May 2022 at the French Institute in Budapest ...
Online course on European territorial cooperation
CESCI, together with its partners, the Strasbourg University, Artois University, Thessaloniki University, MOT, Euro-Institut and the TEIN Network, developed the first Massive Open Online Course devoted to European Territorial Cooperation on behalf of the European Commission. The curriculum covers topics ...
Preparations for a joint management organisation of the World Heritage Site were continued
The third workshop of the Local Support Group, which aims to prepare a joint management organisation for the World Heritage Site Fertő/Neusiedler See, was held on 2 March 2022 in Fertőszéplak ...
CESCI has submitted an application to Central
Together with several universities, think-tanks as well as local and regional stakeholders representing 8 countries, CESCI submitted a transnational project proposal to the call of the Central Europe Programme at the end of February ...
CESCI participated in the FRONT’IDENT event
Students at the University of Bayonne’s Master’s Degree in Cross-Border and International Cooperation organized a two-day event entitled “Better Knowledge for Better Cooperation” between March 4-5, 2022. The aim of the event was to make cross-border cooperation more attractive and ...
The ’Cross-border healthcare’ working group of EUREGHA network reloaded
The EUREGHA network uniting European local and regional health authorities and institutions involved in cross-border healthcare relaunched its working group dedicated to exchange of information and knowledge and the development of joint project ideas on cross-border healthcare. CESCI is one ...
CESCI and partners applied for the Horizon Twinning call
Together with the University of Public Services (Hungary) as Lead Partner on the one hand and the Karelian Institute (University of Eastern Finland), Lisbon University Institute (Portugal) and the European Academy in Bolzano (Italy) as project partners on the other, ...
A Hungarian-Slovenian economic and development agreement has been signed
A Hungarian-Slovenian economic and development agreement was signed by the Hungarian and Slovenian prime ministers on 21 February in Lendava. Under the agreement, the parties will provide 5-5 million EUR per year for the development of the Mura and Rába ...
Documents relating to the 6th milestones of the Legal accessibility initiative are available
CESCI has been implementing Legal accessibility projects since 2016 with the support of the Hungarian Ministry of Justice in order to identify the pertaining legal and administrative obstacles along the Hungarian borders and draft recommendations on the potential solutions thereof ...
ESPON TAP report
ESPON launched an extensive, multi-stage consultation process in 2021 on the four future thematic action plans (TAP) of the ESPON 2030 programme ...
OTKA application with the participation of CESCI experts
With the participation of CESCI experts, the Faculty of Law of the University of Szeged submitted a research application entitled “Perspectives and Obstacles to the Cohesion of the Visegrád Group in the Framework of Multilevel Governance” to the National Scientific ...
A new guide for seniors is published
A new guide for seniors on online opportunities for people over 55 has been published ...
Cross-Border Review 2021
The ‘Cross-Border Review 2021’ is the eighth edition of the yearbook published by CESCI. Unavoidably, this 2021 Cross-Border Review Yearbook is marked by the profoundly complex experience of living with a global and borderless pandemic ...
Report on the ESPON Week
The ESPON Week was held this year between 30th November and 2nd December. Due to the pandemic, it was entirely broadcasted online, and only partly was held in presence in Bled, Slovenia ...
CESCI Balkans organised a Leadership Academy
The Leadership Academy Programme for Cross-Border Cooperation is an action-learning course for practitioners in cross-border cooperation aiming to improve the leadership capacity of mayors and senior officials involved in cross-border cooperation ...
Preparations for a joint management organisation of the cross-border Fertő/Neusiedler See World Heritage Site continued in Fertőszéplak
The second meeting of the local support group for the establishment of a joint management organisation for the cross-border World Heritage Site Fertő/Neusiedler See took place on 10 November 2021 in Fertőszéplak. CESCI staff presented the results of the benchmarking ...
Progress in creating a MOOC on European Territorial Cooperation
Together with its partners, the Strasbourg University, Artois University, Thessaloniki University, MOT, Euro-Institut and the TEIN Network, CESCI is currently developing the first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) devoted to European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) on behalf of the European Commission ...
Planet Budapest (2021)
The Planet Budapest 2021 World Sustainability Summit, the most prestigious international diplomatic summit on sustainability in the Central European region, took place from 30 November to 3 December 2021 ...
Report on CESCI’s General Assembly
CESCI held an extraordinary general assembly on 29 November, online due to the pandemic emergency. A large number of private members and representatives of legal entity members attended the meeting and all votes were valid ...
We organized rescue seminars and a study trip to facilitate the cooperation of cross-border ambulance services
CESCI has been working for years to help cross-border cooperation between ambulance services. This year, we facilitated the development of cooperation by organizing seminars and a study tour ...
Conference on the Treaty of Trianon at the French Institute of Budapest
Together with CESCI and the Initiatives France – Central and Eastern Europe (IFECO) the French Embassy and the French Institute of Budapest organised a conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Trianon from the perspective of cross-border cooperation, ...
CESCI participated at the 50th anniversary of the AEBR
The Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) was established in 1971, 50 years ago. The AEBR family (including CESCI) celebrated the anniversary in Arnhem, the Netherlands between 20 and 22 October 2021 ...
The 11th EGTC Platform was held in Innsbruck
The annual meeting of the EGTCs took place in Innsbruck, Austria, between 30 September to 1 October, organized by the Committee of the Regions in cooperation with the Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino EGTC and the Province of Tyrol in the Austrian-Italian border ...
Professional visit at the Euro-Institut in Kehl
On 5 October 2021, the Secretary General of CESCI participated in professional visit at the Euro-Institut in Kehl, Germany. The representatives of the two organisations expressed their willingness to enhance their cooperation ...
An even closer alliance is being built, the Strasbourg Declaration was signed
On 7 October 2021, the Strasbourg Declaration was signed by Zsuzsanna Fejes, Vice President of CESCI, Karl-Heinz Lambertz, President of AEBR and Christian Dupessey, President of MOT, in the presence of Andreas Kiefer, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of ...
The Frontem project continues on the French-German border
On 6 and 7 October 2021, Strasbourg and Kehl hosted the subsequent seminar of the Frontem: Frontiers in Motion network project, supported by the Jean Monnet programme. The event was also used by the initiators to adopt a manifesto for ...
EUSDR Thematic Event on Climate Change & Water Management
The Slovak Presidency of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region organised a conference on climate change and water management, entitled 'EUSDR Thematic Event on Climate Change & Water Management', on 27 September 2021. The CESCI staff also attended the ...
Seminar: Trianon, 100 years after
On Wednesday October 27, 2021 in the auditorium of the French Institute in Budapest, a seminar will be organized with the title "Trianon, 100 years after. Cross-border cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe" ...
A local support group has been set up for the joint management organization of the Fertő / Neusiedler See cross-border World Heritage Site
The first meeting of the local support group for the establishment of a joint management organization for the Fertő / Neusiedler See cross-border World Heritage Site was held on 28 September in Eisenstadt, in the Palm House of the Esterházy ...
A report on CESCI’s study tour to Salzburg in 2021
The Central European Service for Cross-border Initiatives organised a study tour for its members to Salzburg and its neighbouring cities between the 23 and 25 September 2021, with the aim of presenting good practices from abroad and expanding the professional ...
Civitas Sapiens ’21 Smart City Conference + V4 Summit
The Digital Welfare Program organized for the third time the “Civitas Sapiens ’21 Smart City Conference, which was supplemented with the “ V4 Summit” in the framework of the Hungarian V4 Presidency ...
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 ...
Report on the Conference on Cross-Border Cooperation and Development
Within the framework of the Hungarian presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, a conference on cross-border cooperation was held in the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade in Budapest on 9-10 September 2021 ...
Report on the „EUSDR PA 10 – Hungarian National Hearing 2021” event
This year’s National Hearing, concerning Danube Region Strategy’s Priority Area 10, took place on 31 August, 2021 in the building of the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade in Budapest, where our association was also present. The event focused on ...
Forum and conference within the framework of the Hungarian V4 Presidency
Within the framework of the 2021 Legal accessibility project, CESCI organises a forum and international conference on 14-15 September 2021, under the umbrella of the Hungarian V4 presidency. The main aim of the event is to popularise both the systematic ...
The European Parliament has adopted the cohesion package for the period 2021-2027
The European Parliament adopted the political agreements on the Cohesion policy legislative package 2021-2027 of €373 billion which marks the final step of the legislative procedure and allowed for an entry into force of the Cohesion legislation on 1 July ...
The Pálfi István Scholarships have been awarded
The Pálfi István Scholarship Program was announced again last year by the Pálfi István Regional Development Foundation in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade ...
With a large partnership for better visibility of European Territorial Cooperation
As a member of an international consortium, CESCI takes part in the development of a so-called ’Massive Open Online Course’ (MOOC) aimed at popularising the European Territorial Cooperation policy of the European Union. The tender was published by the European ...
CESCI expands the networking through the application for membership in international organisations
In compliance with the decision of the General Assembly held on 31 May 2021, CESCI applies for membership to four acknowledged international organisations. The objective of the decision is to broaden the professional networking of the association at the international ...
For the joint management of the Fertő/Neusiedler See Cultural Landscape cross-border World Heritage Site
Within the framework of the ’Common Heritage’ project co-financed by the EU through the Interreg V-A Austria-Hungary Programme, CESCI has been selected for delivering consultancy for the establishment of a joint management organisation of the cross-border World Heritage Site Fertő/Neusiedler ...
The design of the cross-border programmes for 2021-2027 is underway
In 2020 the preparation of the territorial analyses of three cross-border cooperation programmes played a prominent role among the planning activities of CESCI. The programme’s design process continued in 2021 based on the finalised documents with the contribution of CESCI ...
CESCI organised an Austrian-Hungarian rescue services workshop as part of our Legal accessibility project
CESCI's long-running Legal accessibility project continues with this year’s topic on expanding the ambulance mobility to the Austrian-Hungarian and the Hungarian-Slovak border regions. To this end, we organised an Austrian-Hungarian rescue services workshop on 2 July 2021 in Sopron, where ...
What future for cross-border cooperation? A conference of the European Cross-Border Citizens’ Alliance
In accordance with the main objectives of the European Cross-Border Citizens’ Alliance (ECCA) established in 2020 by the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), the Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT), the Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives (CESCI) and the Committee ...
EGTC-Workshop 2021/1 (Tata)
The first EGTC workshop organised this year in Tata was a celebratory occasion for several reasons. On the one hand, thanks to the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, experts interested in cross-border cooperation could finally meet again face to face to ...
Report on CESCI’s General Assembly
This year again CESCI's General Assembly meeting took place on 31 May in an online form due to the pandemic. Several members and their representatives participated in the meeting and all votes were vaild ...
Technical meeting organised in the V4+ Project
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 ...
b-solutions nominated to the European Ombudsman award
B-solutions was also nominated for the European Ombudsman's Good Governance Award. The project, designed to remove legal and administrative barriers in border regions, is competing for the prize alongside 36 other initiatives. Please visit the following page and vote in ...
Webinar on the National Energy and Climate Plans of Danube Region Countries
In May the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary and REKK jointly organised two webinars dedicated to the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) of Danube Region Countries, focusing on renewable heating and transportation. CESCI’s expert participated on ...
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 ...
Report published by CoR on the Public Consultations on the Future of CBC
As CESCI reported before, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) launched a public consultation on the joint vision of the long-term future of cross-border cooperation in the European Union. The consultation has been open between December 2020 and the ...
Experts of CESCI held a presentation at the 3rd Smart Communities Academy
The 3rd Smart Communities Academy, the international conference called ‘Smart opportunities for rural communities between 2021-2027’ was organised within the framework of the Smart Communities 2.0 project on 15-16 April 2021 with active involvement of CESCI. The experts of CESCI ...
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 ...
EGTC monitor – Analysis, information, support
Our organisation, the Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives has been providing professional support for establishing and developing EGTCs (European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation). We are now expanding this supporting activity with another tool, the information platform of European Grouping ...
Three projects of the Via Carpatia EGTC have reached milestones
The first tender of the Beautiful Cserehát Cross-border Action Plan for Employment (Through renovation to the education) was successfully completed, and two educational centres were renewed within the framework of it. Within the I-CARE SMART tender, the Via Carpatia EGTC ...
Substantial progress in the 2021-2027 Croatian-Hungarian joint development strategy
The Pannon EGTC has been participating in the creation of the 2021-2027 Croatian-Hungarian joint development strategy for over a year and a half, as the lead beneficiary of a winning Interreg programme. The analysis of the current situation and the ...
European study on the impacts of border restrictions on citizens
After a year of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is yet again facing fresh border closures and lockdown restrictions. Now it is all the more important to take a step back and analyse the first phase ...
The BTC EGTC E-Transport project has arrived at a new (charging) station
Significant progress has been made on the ROHU422 E-Transport project managed by the Banat-Triplex Confinium EGTC. For the first time in the region, electric charging stations were established and handed over in Mórahalom, which now are available for electric vehicles ...
Within the framework of the “Green Arrabona” project, the Herb Garden in Győr was renewed
The Herb Garden in Győr has become even more attractive with the cooperation of the Győr County Municipality, the Green Strength Environmental Protection and Beautification Association and the Arrabona EGTC, within the framework of the “Green Arrabona” project ...
CESCI team has plotted an online map with 777 special locations in Hungary!
Last year, the Scolar Publishing House published Noémi Kocsis's book called ‘Bucket List Hungary’, for which CESCI team have now created an informative online map ...
The RDV EGTC organised thematic workshops
Within the framework of the regional action plan for employment called ‘Food industry’, the Rába-Danube-Váh EGTC organised 4 online thematic workshops in the topics of ‘wheat’, ‘wine’, ‘meat’ and ‘vegetable – fruit’ ...
CESCI’s new website is ready!
After a long preparatory work, CESCI's website has been renewed! The website, available in English and Hungarian, contains a number of new features, as well as a comprehensive overview of the association's previous activities ...
CESCI’s planning work related to the Danube Transnational Programme is completed
The Territorial Strategy of the Danube Transnational Programme developed by CESCI in 2020 was essentially adopted at the end of last year, leaving only the comments made by experts delegated by the Member States to be dealt with by the ...
A treasury of the Porabje region was established
As a result of the cooperation of 6 municipalities and the active participation of the Muraba EGTC, a gap-filling treasury was established at the beginning of February 2021, including all municipal governments of the Porabje ...
Cross-Border Review 2020
The 'Cross-Border Review 2020' is the seventh edition of the yearbook published by CESCI. The current issue contains essays reflecting „on the multilevel and everyday significance of borders by engaging in border thinking exercises ...
University for Pensioners, this time differently
During the implementation of the Motivage project, the Muraba EGTC initiated a close and reciprocal dialogue with NGOs in the region working for retired people. One of the results of this collaboration can be seen in the recently launched University ...
Muraba EGTC Family Friendly Workplace Award
For the third time, the Vas County Local Government announced a call for applications, in the framework of which organizations and workplace managers could be nominated for the title of Family-Friendly Workplace in Vas County. The purpose of awarding the ...
The territorial analysis of the Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine NEXT Programme has been closed
As previously reported, the nearly one year work-cycle at CESCI dedicated for the elaboration of the territorial analyses, concerning three cross-border cooperation programmes is finishing in 2020. Both the analysis for the Interreg Slovakia-Hungary Cross-border Cooperation Programme and the Interreg-IPA ...
The kick-off seminar of the project “With cross-border cooperation for the Europeanisation of Ukrainian borders” had been organised
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 ...
Public consultation on the future of cross-border cooperation
The CoR, in cooperation with the European Cross-Border Citizens' Alliance members, is launching Public consultations on the Future of Cross-Border Cooperation. The results of these consultations will serve as a basis for the Resolution on the Future of Cross-Border Cooperation ...
The Hungary-Croatia Cooperation Program 2021-2027 is being prepared
The preparation of the joint Hungarian-Croatian (Interreg) tender framework for the next European Union development cycle has reached its halfway point. The preparatory and strategy work with a total budget of 290 thousand euros is carried out by the Pannon ...
We have prepared the Institutional Development Strategy of the Via Carpatia EGTC
In connection with one of the planning tasks of CESCI this year, the territorial and institutional strategy of the Via Carpatia EGTC, prepared by our colleagues, was presented and discussed on 25 November in Miskolc. At the event, Gyula Ocskay, ...
AEBR Balkans and CESCI Balkans celebrate 5 years anniversary
On the 16th of December 2020 AEBR Balkans and CESCI Balkans celebrated the 5th anniversary of their collaboration. To honour their fruitful story of cooperation, they met online with friends and partners from all over Europe to discuss on the ...
The first Borders Forum to be organised
On 9-10 November 2020, Mission Transfrontalière Opérationnelle (MOT), the European Commission and the Committee of the Regions jointly organized the first Borders Forum in Paris. The aim of the conference was to provide a platform where local, national and European ...
The seventh conference of the Oradea process
The Association of French-Hungarian Initiatives (now: the Association of French Central and Eastern European Initiatives) and the Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives organized for the sixth time in 2020 its professional event to promote cross-border cooperation in the Hungarian-Romanian ...
Preparatory meeting for the Danube Transnational Program’s Task Force
A meeting of the Task Force preparing the next Danube Transnational Program for 2021-2027 took place on 4 November. One of the main topics of which was the presentation and discussion of the Territorial Strategy prepared by CESCI to guide ...
Presenting at AEBR Annual Conference 2020
On the 5th and 6th November 2020 one of our close ally organisations, the AEBR held its Annual Conference where various stakeholders exchanged on two main topics: the future of the EU from the perspective of border regions, and the ...
European Week of Regions and Cities – reviewable content
The European Week of Regions and Cities, the biggest annual event, which normally takes place in Brussels, and which examines the European Union’s regional policy, this year was held online, having regard to the epidemiological situation. The three consecutive weeks ...
Mura Region EGTC organised a conference
The Mura Region EGTC organised a conference on October 6-7, 2020 called "Why do we need domestic OP funds in cross-border cooperation?". The purpose of the meeting was to identify the European Union funds that could be used to finance ...
Successful project proposals of Ister-Granum EGTC
Ister-Granum EGTC won another tender to build a network of cycling roads, the plans will be implemented with the support of INTERREG V-A Hungray-Slovakia Cooperation Programme. The building of the cycle lanes between Párkány and Helemba and between Ipolydamásd and ...
Cross-border rescue cooperation between Austria and the Czech Republic
It entered into force in 2016 and is still a pioneer in Europe - the state treaty that allows cross-border cooperation between Austrian and Czech ambulance services. Siegfried Weinert from NOTRUF NIEDERÖSTERREICH answers questions about exemplary cooperation and shows how ...
EGTC-Workshop 2020/2 (Kóspallag)
Organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the second EGTC workshop this year was held in Kóspallag, with the participation of our director of planning, Mátyás Jaschitz, who made a presentation about the thematic preparation of INTERREG programmes ...
Territorial analyses for the CBC Programmes completed
The nearly one year work-cycle at CESCI dedicated for the elaboration of the territorial analyses, concerning three cross-border cooperation programmes is coming to an end. Firstly, the process of opininon-forming for the territorial analysis of the Interreg Slovakia-Hungary Cross-border Cooperation ...
A new pedestrian and bicycle bridge between Hungary and Slovakia is being built
A new, 137 meters long and 4,9 meters wide, pedestrian and bicycle bridge is being constructed to connect Hungarian Dunakiliti and Slovak Dobrohošť. The Hungarian part of the execution is carried out by Strabag Általános Építő Ltd., for 621 million ...
Successful application to the International Visegrad Fund
During this summer, our project proposal entitled ,,With cross-border cooperation for the Europeanisation of Ukranian borders” was approved. This project, led by CESCI, is managed with the collaboration of the State University «Uzhgorod National University» (Faculty of Law), Institute of ...
A Ukrainian handbook on cross-border cooperation has been published
In February 2020, our association signed a cooperation agreement with the Institute of Economics and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Faculty of Law of the National University of Uzhgorod. As part of the cooperation, ...
We organise a webinar for the anniversary of the Trianon treaty
The CESCI, the Embassy of France in Budapest, Hungary, the Institut français de Budapest, the Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière, and the Initiatives France-Europe Centrale et Orientale are together organising a webinar, on the 28th October 2020, from 17.00, with the title ...
CESCI General Assembly 2020
CESCI held its Annual General Assembly Meeting on the 14th September 2020, which had been delayed due to the epidemic emergency situation. Taking into consideration the preferences of the members, the Assembly was held online, for which the application of ...
Arrabona EGTC continues to build the tourism of Žitný ostrov and Szigetköz
Arrabona EGTC, seated in Győr, and the Regional Tourism Association of Žitný ostrov in Slovakia held a press conference on the launching of a joint project on 12th August 2020, in Dunajská Streda. The objective of the tender realised within ...
Muraba EGTC promotes #egyvanbelőle campaign
The Muraba EGTC encourages people to use free reusable bags for fruit, vegetable and bakery products. Bags like these are currently available in shops, but as a community effort, they could be free for everyone ...
The first phase of the Wave project has been completed
As part of the WAVE (WAter-linked heritage Valorization by developing an Ecosystem approach) project supported by the European Union's INTERREG EUROPE program, CESCI prepared a Regional Status Quo analysis at the request of the Ister-Granum EGTC. The aim of this ...
European Cross-Border Citizens’ Alliance
On 16 June 2020, the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), the Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT) and the Central European Support Service for Cross-Border Initiatives (CESCI) established the European Border Citizens' Alliance to promote cross-border cooperation along all European borders ...
Gate to Europe EGTC
The Gate to Europe EGTC conducted a survey in May 2020 among the mayors of member municipalities to assess the direct and indirect effects of coronavirus. More than 70% of the 35 member municipalities took part in the survey. When ...
Progress regarding the CBC Programmes
CESCI has continued the work regarding the thematic preparation of the cross-border cooperation programmes. We finished updating the territorial analysis of the Slovakia-Hungary INTERREG Cross-border Cooperation Programme in the middle of June and we sent it to the Managing Authority ...
COVID-19 Platform
The COVID-19 epidemic has required special responses worldwide, especially from local and regional authorities, which have been tasked with organizing emergency services, providing accurate and up-to-date information, coordinating different actions and minimizing negative economic impacts. In these exceptional circumstances, the ...
The BTC EGTC donated a package of protective equipment to its member municipalities in Romania
The exceptional situation that occurred in the last few months due to the pandemic did not stop at national borders, therefore the BTC EGTC tried to help its members as soon as possible. Chairman-director Zoltán Nógrádi, representing the organization, donated ...
” Extensive cooperation resulting in application to the Visegrad Fund”
Under CESCI’s leadership an international cooperation resulted in a submitted application to the Visegrad Fund’s call. The project proposal is called “With cross-border cooperation for the Europeanisation of Ukrainian borders” and the project partners are, apart from CESCI, the Institute ...
The Arrabona EGTC has successfully applied to the Small Project Fund
In cooperation with many organizations from Slovakia and Hungary, the Arrabona EGTC has successfully applied to the Small Project Fund under the Interreg V-A Slovakia-Hungary Cooperation Programme ...
Training of cross-border development desk officers at the EDUTUS University
The EDUTUS University has compiled and accredited its training of cross-border development desk officers with the professional assistance of CESCI. The training contributes to the preparation of the local experts of cross-border cooperation in a practice-oriented manner ...
EGTC-Workshop 2020/1 (Budapest)
The first EGTC workshop of the year took place in Budapest on 8 June 2020 ...
Milestones in Danube Transnational Programme preparation
The next Danube Transnational Programme is being prepared. The Managing Authority and the Joint Secretariat (MA/JS) set out tasks during the programming process for our Association again in 2020. These tasks are going to be financed by the annual operating ...
Continuous preparation of the CBC Programmes
In summer 2019, CESCI began the thematic preparation of two cross-border cooperation programmes for the Serbian-Hungarian and the Slovakian-Hungarian border regions. In the first months of 2020 the preparatory work for the two programmes continued as well as the preparation ...
Interreg 30
European Territorial Cooperation, better known as Interreg, celebrates its 30-year anniversary during 2020 ...
TAPE realizations are underway
The SK-HU CBC programme initiated the tool of “territorial action plans for employment” (TAPE) during the 2014-2020 programming period. Its aim is to promote sustainable, high quality employment and labour mobility in the border area. Many EGTCs have submitted action ...
Construction work has finished at the thermal bath
The above mentioned Cultacross project has reached another milestone. The lead partner of the project is the Arrabona EGTC, other project partners are the town Dunajská Streda and Győr Municipality. Dunajská Streda, one of the project partners, has finished construction ...
The MURABA EGTC has become an age-friendly region
The MURABA EGTC had a successful application in the INTERREG Slovenia-Hungary Cooperation Programme. The project called “MOTIVAGE” has a budget of EUR 338,960 and it is going to be executed between March 2020 and September 2022. The overall aim of ...
Žitný ostrov and Szigetköz are constructing joint tourism with the help of the Arrabona EGTC
The http://www.cultractive.eu website was inspired by the desire for connectivity and free accessibility of cultural and recreational programs. Managed by the Arrabona EGTC, Győr and Dunajská Streda 11 Hungarian and 6 Slovak cultural and touristic institutions came together from both ...
The Kolo Serbian Cultural Center is celebrating its first birthday
The Kolo Serbian Cultural Center is celebrating its first birthday ...
The BTC EGTC is managing another winning project
The BTC EGTC is managing another winning project ...
The WAVE project has been launched
The WAVE project (WAter-linked heritage Validation by developing an Ecosystemic approach), supported by the European Union INTERREG EUROPE programme, is based on extensive international cooperation. The project is led by the city of Breda (Netherlands) and the project partners are ...
EGTC Award 2020
The 2020 edition of the call for application for the award "Building Europe across borders" – Award for EGTCs is open. The award aims to recognize the concrete achievements of the existing EGTCs, showing the EU added value of this ...
Strategic alliance set along the external borders of the EU
On 10 February, the National University of Uzhhorod (Ukraine) hosted a ceremonial event including a scientific meeting where the representatives of the three partners, the Institute of Economic and Legal Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the ...
Cross-Border Review 2019
The 'Cross-Border Review 2019' is the sixth edition of the yearbook published by CESCI. The volume contains articles with wide spectrum of border approaches, including scientific, as well as policy-oriented perspectives, and it aims to explore how border studies can ...
EGTC-Workshop 2019/3 (Hollókő)
The third EGTC workshop in 2019 took place on 28-29 November in a Hungarian palóc village, Hollókő, which is a UNESCO world heritage site. The host of the workshop was the Ipoly Valley EGTC. The director of the EGTC and ...
International conference on the 10th anniversary of CESCI
CESCI celebrated its 10th birthday with a two-day international conference. The cross-border family with nearly 150 participants from 20 countries had the chance to listen to over 30 exciting lectures and greetings followed by a series of inspiring discussions. The ...
EGTC-Workshop 2019/2 (Budapest)
This year's second EGTC workshop was held on 24 June 2019 at the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade in Budapest. This time, the Department for Regional and Cross-border Development of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade focused on ...
V4 Closing conference
V4 Closing conference | On 20 June, we organised the closing conference of our project Legal accessibility among the V4 countries in Košice. Within the framework of the project supported by the International Visegrad Fund the partners have drafted three ...
The Pálfi István Regional Development Foundation 2019
The Pálfi István Regional Development Foundation - with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade - is again announcing the Pálfi István Scholarship Program this year ...
CESCI’s EIAH project will be completed in July
The European Investment Advisory Hub has entrusted the French MOT (Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière) with the identification of challenges and obstacles arising in the case of cross-border cooperation and to prepare a proposal to solve these problems. Together with our partner ...
SECCo2 as exemplary initiative
Our SECCo2 project funded by the Danube Strategic Project Fund and the PA10 "Institutional Capacity" of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region was selected by the Danube Strategy Point as an exemplary initiative of the Danube Region ...
CESCI General Assembly meeting 2019
The CESCI Annual General Assembly in 2019 was held on May 29 at the Falk1 Event Centre in Budapest. The members of the General Assembly adopted the agenda that was set in the invitation following the election of the keeper ...
V4 Closing conference
We are delighted to be able to announce that our V4 Legal accessibility project is coming to an end. Hereby we would like to kindly invite you to the event, which will take place on the 20th of June at ...
EGTC-Workshop 2019/1 (Szentgotthárd)
This year's first national EGTC workshop and professional conference was held on 28-29 March in Szentgotthárd. This two-day conference provided an opportunity for exchanging professional experiences between EGTCs as well as explore the possibilities for development. Our organization, the CESCI ...
9 th Meeting of the Danube Local Actors Platform
Our colleague participated at the 9th meeting of the Danube Local Actors Platform which was held on 5 and 6 March in Vienna with the participation of 35 representatives from civil society, municipalities, international organisations, public administration and research ...
V4 legal accessibility
Within the framework of the project, funded by the Visegrad Fund, we met the Czech, Polish and Slovakian partners in Brno on February 20-21, 2019 ...
CESCI is 10 years old!
The Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives celebrates its 10th anniversary on 25th and 26th April 2019. Let us cordially invite you to this event gathering border people and friends of borderlands and cross-border cooperation from all over Europe! ...
B-Solutions professional meeting
On 31 January, as invited expert, we participated at the professional meeting of the B- Solutions programme dealing with cross-border legal accessibility, organised by DG Regio and AEBR in Brussels ...
We participated at the workshop of ECMI
| The ‘National Minorites and their influence on Regional Development’ workshop was organized in Flensburg from 7-8 February organised by ECMI (European Centre for Minority Issues), to which CESCI's director of planning, Mátyás Jaschitz was also invited. The aim of ...
Proposal on the V4 Mobility Council
Proposal on a Visegrad Four level mechanism designed to eliminate cross-border obstacles is now available. The proposal has been drafted within the framework of the project titled 'Legal Accessibility among the Visegrad Countries' supported by the International Visegrad Fund ...
JOGa – 3rd milestone
| The third milestone of CESCI’s Legal Accessibility initiative was closed in December 2018, the documents of which can be already found on-line on the website of the project. In parallel with the third milestone, we continued the implementation of ...
The SECCo2 project was completed
The ‘SECCo2 – Youth for cross-border partnership and cohesion of EUSDR and EUSAIR’ project of CESCI was completed on 31 January, which was implemented together with the AEBR (Association of European Border Regions), the ISIG (Istituto di Sociologia Internazionale di ...
Working group meeting to dismantle cross-border obstacles
The 9th meeting of the working group on innovative solutions for cross-border obstacles, was held in the building of the Committee of the Regions in Brussels on December 18, 2018, with the participation of our colleague ...
The SECCo2 platform was launched
We would like to inform you that the SECCo2 online platform, helping cross-border cooperation in the Danube Region, has been launched ...
EGTC-Workshop 2018/3 (Esztergom)
The EGTC workshop took place for the third time this year, organised by the Department for Regional and Cross-border Development of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Ister-Granum EGTC, supported by the 3.3.3-15-2016-00002 project of the Public ...
The fifth conference of the Oradea process
| The French-Hungarian Initiative Association (INFH), the Metropolitan Region of Oradea (ZMO) and CESCI organized the program dedicated to aid the Hungarian-Romanian cross-border cooperation for the fifth time in Oradea on October 18, 2018. The "Oradea Process" launched in 2012 ...
AEBR General Assembly and Conference (2018)
The annual General Assembly of AEBR was held on September 20-22, 2018 in Oulu, Finland, with relating professional conferences and field programmes ...
Our study on the Nordic Council has been published
The first study of our project entitled ‘Legal accessibility among the V4 countries’ had been published. The English analysis on the cross-border accessibility structure and concept of the Nordic Council can be read here ...
ABS picnic
The World Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) was held this year for the second time, this time hosted jointly by Vienna and Budapest. During the trip from Vienna to Budapest, CESCI organised a study tour on 11 ...
EGTC-Workshop 2018/2 (Budapest)
This year, the second meeting of the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation was held on June 21st, 2018 at the Regional and Cross-Border Development Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade ...
EGTC-Workshop 2018/1 (Tótszerdahely)
The next EGTC workshop was organized by the Mura Region EGTC, in its headquarters, the Fedák Country house, in Tótszerdahely, on 8-9 March 2018 ...
Boosting EU Border Regions
The European Commission published its Communication on ‘Boosting growth and cohesion in EU border regions’ in September 2017, which identified specific steps to eliminate the obstacles existing along the internal borders of the EU ...
EGTC-Workshop 2017/4 (Tatabánya)
The EGTC workshop took place for the fourth time this year, organised by the Department for Cross-border Development and Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Rába-Danube-Váh EGTC, supported by the 3.3.3-15-2016-00002 project of the Public ...
EGTC-Workshop 2017/3 (Győr)
The EGTC workshop took place for the third time this year, organised by the Department for Cross-border Development and Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Arrabona EGTC, supported by the 3.3.3-15-2016-00002 project of the Public ...
EGTC-Workshop 2017/2 (Budapest)
Unlike usual, the latest workshop of the Hungarian EGTCs was held in Budapest, in the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The meeting, held on 7 June, was closed by a reception on the Ministry’s terrace, which ...
EGTC-Workshop 2017/1 (Esztergom)
The first EGTC workshop of 2017 was held on 7–8 May in Esztergom with the joint organisation of the Ister-Granum EGTC and the Department for Cross-border Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary. The participants ...
EGTC-Workshop 2016/3 (Košice)
Managers from 13 European Territorial Associations took part in the workshop which was organized in Košice on 28-29 September by the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade ...
EGTC-Workshop 2016/2 (Mórahalom)
On the 8th-9th of June 2016, the Cross-border Economic Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in co-organization with Banat-Triplex Confinium EGTC and CESCI, held the current EGTC workshop in Mórahalom. The event was realized with the ...
The second Szentgotthárd – Monošter Seminar
The Second Seminar on Cooperation took place on 11 and 12 of April 2016 in the City of Szentgotthárd. The two-days event provided opportunity to meet for more than 120 Hungarian and Slovenian participants from both public and private sectors ...
EGTC-Workshop 2016/1 (Komarno)
The next in line Hungarian EGTC workshop was held in Komárno, co-organised by CESCI and the local Pons Danubii EGTC. Within the framework of the two-day programme on March 31 and April 1, the EGTC itself also presented its success ...
EGTC-Workshop 2015/3 (Zsámbék)
The next in line meeting of European Groupings for Territorial Cooperation (EGTCs) to which Hungary is participating, was held on 18-19 November 2015. The most important part of the meeting was the presentation of cross-border programmes to be opened in ...
EGTC-Workshop 2015/2 (Budakeszi)
One of the guests at the workshop was the State Secretary of the National Policy of the Prime Minister’s Office, Árpád János Potápi, who explained the national policy role of cross-border cooperation. The second guest was a researcher of CEU, ...
EGTC-Workshop 2015/1 (Kisvárda)
New perspectives for Hungarian EGTCs (European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation) – to become the key actors of cross-border economic development The representatives of cross-border European Groupings for Territorial Cooperation (EGTCs) had a meeting with the Minister of National Development in ...
Second seminar on cross-border territorial observation
Following the Nancy initiative taken by the French Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière, CESCI organised the second European seminar on cross-border territorial monitoring in Budapest ...
EGTC-Workshop 2014/4 (Ráckeve)
The 8th EGTC workshop was organised on 18-19 November in Ráckeve. Besides the active EGTCs with Hungarian interests and CESCI, representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Ministry of National Development also attended the event ...
EGTC-Workshop 2014/3 (Ráckeve)
On 15-16th of October, 2014 the seventh EGTC workshop was held in Ráckeve. Besides CESCI and the active EGTCs with Hungarian interests, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Prime Minister’s Office and West Pannon Nonprofit Kft. were also ...
EGTC-Workshop 2014/2 (Ráckeve)
The second EGTC workshop of year 2014 was organized on 3th-4th June in Ráckeve, at the Savoya Castle. Within the framework of the event the participants conciliated on the future of the EGTCs and heard presentations on an educational partnership ...
EGTC-Workshop 2014/1 (Budapest)
The next EGTC workshop was held on 12th-13th of March 2014 in Budapest. Besides the EGTCs with Hungarian participants, the representatives of the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration, the Prime Minister’s Office and the organizations responsible for the planning ...
EGTC-Workshop 2013/4 (Alsóörs)
The fourth workshop of the EGTCs with Hungarian participation took place in Alsóörs on 27-28 November 2013, organised by CESCI. 11 EGTCs, the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, the Széchenyi Programme Office and the representatives of two expert firms ...
EGTC-Workshop 2013/3 (Veľký Meder)
CESCI organized the next EGTC workshop in Veľký Meder for the EGTCs with Hungarian participation. Eight EGTCs were represented at the workshop held on 27th-28th August ...
EGTC-Workshop 2013/2 (Piliscsaba)
The third workshop of the Europen Groupings of Territorial cooperation with Hungarian participants was held on 22nd-23rd May 2013, in Piliscsaba. The forum established in order to provide better information flow and the success of the organizations' joint presence was ...
EGTC-Workshop 2013/1 (Budapest)
The representatives of EGTCs with Hungarian participation had a meeting exceptionally in Budapest. The particpants of the forum, established and operated by CESCI, could hear reports on the events of the period passed since the last general meeting, the introduction ...
EGTC-Workshop 2012/2 (Lovasberény)
The 2nd EGTC workshop, organised by CESCI, took place on 28th-29th August 2012 in Lovasberény ...
EGTC-Workshop 2012/1 (Salgóbánya)
CESCI initiated the formation of a regularly organised workshop toward the EGTCs with Hungarian participants for better information flow and providing the succes of their joint presence. The first meeting took place on 3rd-4th July 2012 in Salgóbánya, with the ...
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