Description
A two-day conference is set to begin on the theme‘Autonomy as a tool for promoting territorial cooperation’, organised by the Euregio EGTC in collaboration with the Department for the Promotion of Knowledge of Autonomy, with the aim of bringing the concept of autonomy into the European context as a tool for promoting cross-border territorial cooperation. The event will provide an opportunity for experts in international law, scholars of federal systems and representatives of various European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation to exchange views and share best practices.
Admission is free subject to availability: please register via the following link.
The event will be simultaneously interpreted into Italian, English and Spanish.
For those unable to attend in person, the conference can also be followed remotely via the following Zoom link. In this case, registration is not required.
Day 1 Programme:
14.00–14.30: Opening remarks by Simone Marchiori, Provincial Councillor for the Promotion of Awareness of Autonomy, and Elisa Bertò, Director of Euregio Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino
14.30–15.00: Opening address ‘Towards a Law of Cross-Border Cooperation’ by Francesco Palermo, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Verona and Director of the Institute for Comparative Federal Studies at Eurac Research
15.00–16.00: First panel discussion moderated by Sara Parolari, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federal Studies at Eurac Research
Governance and cross-border cooperation: the case of Euregio Senza Confini with Chiara Fabbro, Project Coordinator at Euregio Senza Confini
Autonomy and Strategic Projects: the case of GECT GO as a laboratory for cross-border cooperation with Romina Kocina, Director of GECT GO
From a bridge of peace to a driving force for integration: the 80-year legacy of the De Gasperi–Gruber Agreement in the EGTC cooperative model with Elisa Bertò, Director of Euregio Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino
16.00–16.45: Second panel moderated by Alice Valdesalici, Research Group Leader at the Institute for Comparative Federal Studies at Eurac Research
A rather special EGTC for a rather unique region with Xavier Conill, Director-General of the EGTC Hospital of Cerdanya
Euroregions: key players in an effective European cohesion policy at the borders: a specific case of continental and island territories, the Pyrenees–Mediterranean Euroregion, with Xavier Bernard Sans, Secretary-General of the EGTC Pyrenees–Mediterranean
16.45: buffet
Day 2 Programme:
8.45–9.45: Opening session: Dialogue on cross-border cooperation withMartín Guillermo Ramírez, Secretary-General of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), andEsther Happacher, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Innsbruck
9.45–10.30:Third panel moderated byRaffaella Coletti, researcher at CNR-ISTeG, the ‘Massimo Severo Giannini’ Institute on Territorial and Governance Systems
Implementing cross-border cooperation: the experience of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Euskadi, Navarra Euroregion withLeyre Azcona Sanz de Galdeano, Director of the EGTC Euroregion Nouvelle-Aquitaine Euskadi Navarra
35 years of cross-border cooperation: the IACOBUS and NORTEAR programmes of the Galicia–Northern Portugal EGTC, withNuno Almeida, Director of the Galicia–Northern Portugal EGTC
10.30–11.00: Coffee break
11.00–12.15: Round-table discussion : ‘The future of territorial cooperation in the Autonomous Regions’, moderated by Jens Woelk, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Trento
with the EGTC Euregio Senza Confini (IT–AT), the EGTC Euregio Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino (IT–AT), the EGTC Euroregion Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Euskadi and Navarre (FR–ES), EGTC Galicia-Norte Portugal (ES – PT), EGTC GO (IT – SI), EGTC Hospital of Cerdanya (FR – ES), EGTC Pyrenees–Mediterranean (FR – ES)
12.15–12.45: Closing session: ‘What if the concept of hybridisation allowed us to rethink the cross-border issue?’ with Gabrielle Halpern, PhD in Philosophy and senior researcher at the Fondation Jean Jaurès
12.45: Lunch
