28 research outputs found
European border cities as cross-border cooperation engines
A general research on the works related to the European border cities reveals the fact that scholars do not so frequently approach this matter. One of these very rare sources, that of Decoville, Durand and Feltgen2 considers the border cities from a new and very intersting perspective for the former communist countries: that of de-marginalisation of the border urban areas, of an upgrading of the status of peripheral regions, and, in the end, of the dynamisation of their economic and cultural life by their very easy to establish external relations in the framework of the process of cross-border cooperation. In the context of the greater consideration allotted to the problem of borders and cross-border cooperation in the EU, consecrating an entire issue of Eurolimes to the role of the border cities could be considered as an act of reparation to these urban areas, to their ethnic diversity, multicultural sophistication, political role in key situations, or economical potential for their communities and even region or country
Romanian-Hungarian cross-border cooperation at various territorial levels, with a particular study of the Debrecen-Oradea Eurometropolis (European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation-EGTC)
The objective of the doctoral thesis âResearch on different territorial levels of Romanian-Hungarian Cross-Border Cooperation with special emphasis on Debrecen-Oradea Eurometropolis (European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation EGTC)â is to emphasize the importance of the cross border cooperation dimension, and has as the target area the Romanian-Hungarian cooperation, the counties of Bihor, Hajdu Bihar, and last but not least the communities of Debrecen and Oradea. For achieving this objective we studied the theories and concepts relevant to this field of study using methods and instruments of research on the basis of which we intend to bring forward and to emphasize an innovative and actual element of the thesis, and also a possible future European Group of Cross border cooperation Eurometropolis Debrece-Oradea (we analysed documents in order for us to be able to constructively defend our point of view). The chosen subject is strictly connected to the creation of the new legal instrument, officially applicable to the area of the European Union (EGTC), which function at the level of cross border cooperation, at the frontier of the states of the European Union1. This instrument is a new one, actual, and it is resources, economy in the border regions, transport, regional development, regionalism, regional difference, migration, cross-border law, development. Our doctoral thesis intends to combine in an efficient way the theoretical dimension and the practical dimension, so as through this domain to obtain new, innovative results which can be utilized by our decision making factors: local, county authorities, national, regional, euroregional and European actors. Our thesis is structured in 4 major chapters and annexes through which we will try to justify the theoretical dimension of the theories concerning the cross border cooperation and the concepts specific to the field, our basis for our enterprise research, our studies, and, in the end, we can debate the final result, which is actual and innovative in the same time at the level of Romanian-Hungarian boundary, especially for the cities Debrecen and Oradea. During the chapter âDifferent territorial levels of Hungaria-Romanian Cross-Border Cooperation CBCâ, we describe the conceptual and theoretical delimitations where we used concepts like regional, euroregional, regions of development, politics of regional development, institutions with an area of action in regional and euroregional field. A subchapter refers to a successful Eurometropolis at European level proposes the analyses of three such structures of success: Regio Basiliensis, Lille Kortrijk Tournai - LKT and Metropolis Maastricht which can represent efficient models for the future structures of cross border cooperation. We will detail the proposed subject at the level of communities Debrecen and Oradea âAgglomeration of the Communities Debrecen and Oradeaâ as a previous step, a project for strengthening cross border cooperation, which in time transformed itself proposing as a type of project a possible European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Debrecen-Oradea. The results of our research are detailed in Chapter III; it is the result obtained from the socio-geographical analysis run in the target area of Debrecen-Oradea and on the target groups selected for this purpose, as well as the analysis and interpretation of existing data bases from Romanian and Hungarian institutions. Finally, we will present the conclusions of the approached topics, trying to bring positive arguments in the favour of proposed innovation at the Hungarian-Romanian border, the utility of this cooperation under this umbrella based on the instrument of EGTC and last, but not least, the awareness of the authorised institutions, so that the model proposed and constructed by us, i.e. to transit from a project stage to a functional stage, offers a series of viable solutions for a common development of neighbouring cross border communities of Debrecen and Oradea
Different territorial levels of Romanian-Hungarian cross-border cooperation
The Romanian-Hungarian border has evolved in time from a closed, guarded
border to an open one after 1989, a period when the success of cross-border cooperation
models in Europe were taken on by the two nations, either as an Eurometropolis, or as
Euroregion, operating with a series of instruments and institutions that facilitated
cooperation within various areas of cross-border interest; these instruments have been
gradually adapted until the present days when new ones replaced the old ones, the latest
instrument being the EGTC
Promoting intercultural dialogue through lifelong learning policies
A dominant phenomenon in the last decades of the past century and the first
decades of the 21st century is that of globalisation. The European Union emphasises more and more
the role of education as a real element of reducing the distances between the member states, while
stimulating the economic, social and cultural development of the community states. At the European
Unionsâ policies, the universities are called to prepare the students for an independent life in a multicultural
environment, to support the improvement of knowledge, skills and competences that are
necessary for an efficient functioning in a pluralist and democratic society, to interact, negotiate and
communicate with people from different groups in order to create a civil society functioning on moral
principles and common values. The instrument, put at the disposal of the national education systems
by the European Committee, is the initiation of action programmes in this domain. The actions that
take place in these programmes are based on collaboration relationships between the member states
of the European Union. They are also extended to non-community states or even to non-European
ones. Among these programmes, emphasis is placed upon those designated to learning during oneâs
entire lifespan (LLP), the most popular being the Socrates-Erasmus Programme. In these 52 higher
education institutions from Romania, which take part to this programme, the University of Oradea has
constantly occupied, in the last five years, on the 7th place, and this is due to the number of mobilities
put at the studentsâ and teachersâ disposal every academic year. The objectives proposed by the
European Committee, once starting this programmes, were successfully accomplished, as conditions
have been created for building a real intercultural dialogue between the 27 countries of the European
Union and not only
European/EU economic studies curricula
This paper is analysing one of the most dynamic fields of EU studies, the Economic Studies, which is, in the same time, a classic and a permanently new and changeable domain, offering a comprehensive coverage of European economic integration. This assertion is also confirmed by the fact that the EU Economic Studies come in second position in point of projects funded by Jean Monnet Action.
The study takes into consideration three subfields of EU Economic Studies: European Economy, European Management, and Europe and Global Economy, tracing their evolution in twelve European countries.
The curricular database of these subfields has been the support needed to seize the development of curricula in EU Economic Studies through internal elements contributing to its development - the dynamics of specializations, the role of mobility in various ways for crossing the disciplinary/transdisciplinary and national /transnational borders, or the role of NTIC in developing the curricula. Finally, it is the same curricular database that has helped us follow the EU Economic Studies curricula development depending on external stimuli: evolution of curricula according to the European agenda and its level of knowledge, and the impact of Jean Monnet Programme in developing the European Studies curricula in the field
Romanian-Hungarian cross-border cultural and educational relations
The work aims at capturing the cultural dimension of education in the Romanian-Hungarian border and the priority of the Bihor - Hajdu Bihar Euro-region, through the exchange of teachers, students, facilitated by the funding of the European projects, cooperation at institutional level and euro regional cross-border projects implemented by the local authorities, passing in this task by a foray into the history of cooperation at the level of the communities in study
Romanian-Hungarian cross-border cooperation through a possible EGTC Oradea-Debrecen
A border region is an area consisting of a number of human communities and a network of relationships that link between communities and the space they are found, but are disturbed by the legal constraints of the border. Irrespective of political systems in which circumscribes, border regions have to deal with specific problems at spatial, social, economic, cultural or political level. The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) is also like the Euro regions a border entity, but unlike the latter, the group has legal personality recognized both at EU Member State and EU level. In this respect, as a result of the analysis presented in this research, we believe that the Hajdu Bihar and Bihor space should, in future as soon as possible (one or two years), to set up an EGTC. In this respect, at the Metropolitan Area of Oradea level was made a first step towards creating the group, setting up Oradea Metropolitan Development Committee
Romanian-Hungarian cross-border cooperation at various territorial levels, with a particular study of the Debrecen-Oradea Eurometropolis (European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation-EGTC)
The objective of the doctoral thesis âResearch on different territorial levels of Romanian-Hungarian Cross-Border Cooperation with special emphasis on Debrecen â Oradea Eurometropolis (European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation EGTC)â is to emphasize the importance of the cross border cooperation dimension, and has as the target area the Romanian â Hungarian cooperation, the counties of Bihor, Hajdu Bihar, and last but not least the communities of Debrecen and Oradea. For achieving this objective
we studied the theories and concepts relevant to this field of study using methods and instruments of research on the basis of which we intend to bring forward and to emphasize an innovative and actual element of the thesis, and also a possible future European Group of Cross border cooperation Eurometropolis Debrecen â Oradea (we analysed documents in
order for us to be able to constructively defend our point of view).
The chosen subject is strictly connected to the creation of the new legal instrument, officially applicable to the area of the European Union (EGTC), which function at the level of cross border cooperation, at the frontier of the states of the European Union1. This instrument is a new one, actual, and it is especially interesting for the European states because of the elements that can be put to good use (the first Eurometropolis which functions on the basis of EGTC is Eurometropolis Lille âKortrijk-Tournai, LKT) created in January 28 2008).
On the other hand, another dimension of this instrument importance is represented by the possibility of the development of the communities situated on both sides of the border, thus a field of interest of the involved communities in such a structure of cross border cooperation.
At the margins of the interest of our study there is a series of other authors which made research oriented in different fields of interests which has as target the Romanian â Hungarian cross border cooperation: IstvĂĄn
SĂŒli-Zakar, Ioan Horga, Kozma GĂĄbor, Zsolt Radics, Alexandru IlieĆ, KlĂĄra Czimre, KĂĄroly Teperics, JĂĄnos PĂ©nzes, ErnĆ MolnĂĄr, LuminiĆŁa Ćoproni,Adrian-Claudiu Popoviciu, Attila Ambrus, Mircea Brie, CsĂŒlög GĂĄbor (
Eurolimes, vol. I-XII; Analele RISE, vol. I-II; SĂŒli-Zakar I., 2003a, b, c, d; SĂŒli-Zakar I., 2004; SĂŒli-Zakar I., 2005; SĂŒli-Zakar I. â Horga I., 2006; Horga I. - SĂŒli-Zakar IstvĂĄn, 2006; SĂŒli-Zakar I., 2008; Horga I. - SĂŒli-Zakar
I., 2010; Horga I. - BÄrbulescu I. Gh. - Ivan A. - Palinchak M. - SĂŒli-Zakar I., 2010; SĂŒli-Zakar I., 2010; SĂŒli-Zakar I.,2011; Ćoproni L. - Horga I., 2010;
IlieĆ A., 2010; IlieĆ A. - Wendt J., 2001).
Among major domains approached by the studies of the above
mentioned researchers we nominate: objectives and regional development in border regions, cooperation of towns on the two sides of the border, interethnic connections, Euroregions along the Eastern borders of the EU,cultural âpathwaysâ, cross-border cooperation of educational institutions, borders and tourism, common infrastructure, cross-border cooperation, human resources, economy in the border regions, transport, regional development,
regionalism, regional difference, migration, cross-border law, development.
Our doctoral thesis intends to combine in an efficient way the theoretical dimension and the practical dimension, so as through this domain to obtain new, innovative results which can be utilized by our decision making factors: local,
county authorities, national, regional, euroregional and European actors.
Our thesis is structured in 4 major chapters and annexes through which we will try to justify the theoretical dimension of the theories concerning the cross border cooperation and the concepts specific to the field, our basis for our enterprise research, our studies, and, in the end, we can debate the final result, which is actual and innovative in the same time at the level of Romanian â
Hungarian boundary, especially for the cities Debrecen and Oradea.
During the chapter âDifferent territorial levels of Hungarian â Romanian Cross-Border Cooperation CBCâ, we describe the conceptual and theoretical delimitations where we used concepts like regional, euroregional,
regions of development, politics of regional development, institutions with an area of action in regional and euroregional field.
A subchapter refers to a successful Eurometropolis at European level proposes the analyses of three such structures of success: Regio Basiliensis, Lille Kortrijk Tournai - LKT and Metropolis Maastricht which can represent
efficient models for the future structures of cross border cooperation.
We will detail the proposed subject at the level of communities Debrecen and Oradea âAgglomeration of the Communities Debrecen and Oradeaâ as a previous step, a project for strengthening cross border cooperation, which in time transformed itself proposing as a type of project a
possible European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Debrecen â Oradea.
The results of our research are detailed in Chapter III; it is the result obtained from the socio-geographical analysis run in the target area of Debrecen âOradea and on the target groups selected for this purpose, as well as the analysis and interpretation of existing data bases from Romanian and Hungarian institutions.
Finally, we will present the conclusions of the approached topics,trying to bring positive arguments in the favour of proposed innovation at the Hungarian-Romanian border, the utility of this cooperation under this umbrella based on the instrument of EGTC and last, but not least, the
awareness of the authorised institutions, so that the model proposed and constructed by us, i.e. to transit from a project stage to a functional stage, offers a series of viable solutions for a common development of neighbouring cross border communities of Debrecen and Oradea
Evaluation of the regional cooperation at the Romanian-Hungarian border
The Romanian-Hungarian border is a facilitator for the various NUTS forms, which, through the wide range of instruments and forms of cross-border cooperation facilitated by the European Union's programs and policies, develops various forms of cross-border cooperation with beneficial results on both sides of the border. In this direction we will carry out an evaluation of the Romanian-Hungarian border regions, trying to identify the various forms of cooperation, such as Euroregions or cross-border cooperation programs which are instruments that can add value to this region and provide sustainable development in the target region