We are pleased to promote the newly built twin town center of Valga-Valka! A symbolic achievement in the field of cross-border cooperation! Exactly 100 years have passed since the tiny river Var...
The Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) and the European Commission's DG REGIO are happy to announce that 2021 will start with a new possibility for public bodies and cross-border...
The EU-funded project “ Spreek je buurtaal - Sprich deine Nachbarsprache ” (Speak your neighbour language) has been recently awarded with a first “Border-prize” by the...
DG Regio launched the study “Providing public transport in cross-border regions. Mapping of existing services and related legal obstacles”. Adequate cross-border transport infrastructures...
The "Critical Dictionary of Borders, Cross-Border Cooperation and European Integration" has just been published: a major publication that contains 209 articles written by 124 authors from different...
In 2021, the policy instrument of European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) turns its 15th anniversary that gives an opportunity to summarise the experiences and lessons learnt of the...
According to the Communication COM(2017) 534 final of the European Commission “ Boosting growth and cohesion in EU border regions “ labor mobility is the most important area directly...
The COM(2017) 534 final points out that the „access to available and reliable information and problem-solving services on life or work on the other side of the border is vital”,...
The European Commission’s Communication COM(2017) 534 final makes clear that “encouraging cooperation between the Member States to improve complementarity of their health services in...
Lacking, insufficient or low-quality public transport services still have a negative impact on the mobility of many citizens in EU border regions. Three are the main fields in which obstacles are...
In the history of b-solutions , obstacles identified under the thematic area of “Institutional cooperation” have always been the most numerous ones among the different thematic areas...
The Commission proposed, in March 2020, to make 2021 the European Year of Rail to support the delivery of its European Green Deal objectives in the transport field. A series of events, campaigns and...
The project submitted by the Galicia-Norte Portugal EGTC was among the awarded projects under the 3rd B-Solutions call by the Association of European Border Regions and the European Commission...
Join the Borders Forum online on nov 9 and 10th : https://bordersforum.eu/  ; More info : FR : http://www.espaces-transfrontaliers.org/actualites/news/news/show/rendez-vous-lundi-matin-a-9h30...
The Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) and the EU Commission’s DG REGIO have performed the quality assessment of the 27 applications received under the III call for proposals of the...
Dear border community, This announcement is to inform you that, due to the ongoing situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have agreed on the difficult decision to cancel the "b-solutions for Cross-...
This week, following the proposal of the European Commission, the Council has agreed on a coordinated approach to the restriction of free movement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Principle 19...
The third call for proposals opened in the framework of the b-solutions initiative has closed on 11 October 2020. The Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) has received 27 applications from...
Alice Engl and I are glad to inform you about the recent publication of a journal article dedicated to the emergence of the ECBM tool: Agenda-setting dynamics in the post-2020 cohesion policy reform...
As the European Commission announced in its SME strategy, it has launched a call for pioneer partnerships among border regions to enhance cooperation on the enforcement of the Single Market. The...