V4+ Kick-off seminar
Knowledge sharing | 24 November 2020
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.
Agenda:
Greetings
- Jerzy Bański director of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Prof. Volodymyr Ustymenko, member of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, director of the V. Mamutov Institute of Economic and Legal Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Martín Guillermo-Ramírez, secretary general of the Association of European Border Regions
Presentations – Panel 1.
- Alla Kinshchak (Ministry of Communities and Territories of Ukraine): Challenges and prospects of the cross-border cooperation in 2021-2027
- Simona Pohlová (DG REGIO, European Commission): The relevance of cross-border cooperation within the framework of the new Eastern partnership policy of the EU
- Hynek Böhm (Technical University of Liberec): Europeanisation of Visegrad countries through cross-border cooperation – experiences of the last 15 years
Coffee break
Presentations – Panel 2.
- Dr. Łukasz Lewkowicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Institute of Central Europe): Cross-border cooperation in Central Europe after 1989: a critical assessment
- Magdalena Fotek-Kułak (Marshal’s Office of Lubelskie Voivodeship): Experiences and characteristics of cross-border cooperation between Poland and Ukraine
- Alexander Duleba (Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, University of Presov): Experiences and characteristics of cross-border cooperation between Slovakia and Ukraine
- Gyula Ocskay (CESCI): Experiences and characteristics of cross-border cooperation between Hungary and Ukraine
- Yaroslav Lazur (State University “Uzhhorod National University”): Brief introduction to the legal background of CBC in Ukraine
- Melinda Benczi (CESCI): Introduction of the project
