The seventh conference of the Oradea process

+ | 14 November 2020

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 border. The theme of this year’s workshop was the continuation of last year’s event: cross-border integrated planning and development.

In view of the epidemic situation, representatives of the Romanian-Hungarian border counties, settlements and development agencies took part in an online webinar this year. At the beginning of the trilingual event, the welcome letter of Anna-Monika Modzelewska, Program Manager of the European Commission, was read out by the organizers, followed by Gyula Ocskay, Secretary General of CESCI and José Osete, Director of IFECO who greeted the participants and outlined the background and past successes of the initiative.

  • Boris Ravignon and Aurélien Biscaut: The creation of a cross-border strategy for the Ardennes

    The first presentation was given by Boris Ravignon, President of the Ardennes Metropolis, Mayor of Charleville-Mézières, and Aurélien Biscaut, Secretary General of the Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière, on the creation of a cross-border strategy for the Ardennes. The content of the plan adopted in early 2020 is a Franco-Belgian cross-border strategy for the period 2021-2027 focusing on comprehensive and long-term goals using a local and operational approach. The lecture can be downloaded here.

  • Jean-Baptiste Cuzin: The “Great Region”

    Following this, Jean-Baptiste Cuzin, Director of Cross-Border European and International Cooperation for the Grand-Est Region, spoke about the “Great Region” (Wallonia, Luxembourg, Lorraine, the Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate) as a European laboratory, highlighting  the need for a common, balanced development strategy based on the benefits and functional complementarities of all the regions concerned. The presentation can be downloaded here.

  • Paul Dancu: The EPICAH project

    After questions from the audience, Paul Dancu, consultant of the Satu Mare County Municipal Development Association, presented the EPICAH project (presentation here), then Gyula Ocskay, Secretary-General of CESCI, took the floor and raised ideas for integrated development of the Romanian-Hungarian border region.

The event closed with a summary by José Osete.

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