Workshop | 8 October 2015 | 11.15 am – 1 pm | Room JDE 51 |Rue Belliard 99-101
Interpretation: EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, EL, HR active and passive.
The workshop of the EGTC Platform during the Open Days 2014 will take place in Brussels on 8 October 2014 in the morning, chaired by the political coordinator of the Platform, Mr Herwig Van Staa (AT/EPP).
The workshop will focus on the opportunities and potential of the EGTC in the distant cooperation, without involving border neighbourhood. The programme will include EGTC of non-neighbouring cities, the programme Interreg in its role of exchange of experience concerning the identification, transfer and dissemination of good practices and innovative approaches in relation to the implementation of cooperation programmes and actions as well as to the use of EGTCs as established in Regulation (EU) 1299/2013, and the possibility of building Interreg projects with different EGTC as partners.
AGENDA
Chair: Mr Herwig Van Staa (AT/EPP) President of the Parliament of Tirol and Coordinator of the EGTC Platform of the Committee of the Regions
Speakers:
Dr Nikolaos Krimnianiotis, General Secretary of Acharnes Municipality, General Director of the EGTC Efxini Poli
Ms Isabel Sánchez, Mayor of Totana, EGTC European Association of Cities of Ceramics
Mr Nicolas Singer, Programme Interreg Europe
Draft program:
11:15 – 11:30 Opening by the political coordinator
11:30 – 11:50 Presentation of EGTCs associations of cities
11:50 – 12:10 Presentation of the programme Interreg Europe
12:10 – 12:40 Presentation of project ideas
12:40 – 13:00 Open discussion and closing
Additional information:
Networking event at JDE Atrium 5, will take place directly after the meeting
