EUSAIR - Final Report

October
November
12 – 15 October
European Week of Regions
and Cities
EUSAIR has presented itself as
"the only Macro-regional Strategy
managed by all countries in the
region, regardless of their political
status, which is a unique European
integration tool." It also differs in
the way the four thematic pillars
are managed. Two coordinators
are responsible for each pillar:
a representative of an EU Member
State and a representative of a
non-Member State. They also boast
a growing membership, unique
management support and a strong
political will to make joint commitments.
All EUSAIR participating
countries have national Project
Partners in EUSAIR Facility Point
strategic project. Non-EU countries
thus also have their own groups
with developed institutional capacity
to act in line with EU policies and
to manage even the most demanding
projects, such as the EUSAIR
Presidency.
Monitoring inclusion of macroregional
projects. »Agreement on priority
projects is an important step, but
only the first. This time, we are timely
in providing appropriate guidance
for the integration process of Macroregional
Strategies. It is now of key
importance to monitor the inclusion
process,” said Andreja Jerina.
EUSAIR as a laboratory for a
New Europe: Macro-regional
Strategies pushing European
Integration. The MRS governance
structure is generic; contexts are
specific. We therefore have within
the 4 MRS a large portion of
common core, and mainly the same
specificities due to the territories we
cover. The four MRS provide us with
functioning networks in the wider
European (beyond EU) space, which,
based on mutual trust and mutual
understanding, are able to agree
on common actions.
15 and 16 October
Interreg 30 th anniversary annual
meeting. Building on our complementarities,
we need to open up
silos between the programmes,
we need regular cross programme
exchange to find synergies and
to act in a coordinated and
harmonised manner. Since they
are financing programmes, only
then we will truly provide value
for public money.
6 November
Virtual conference »Past,
Present, Future of Interreg MED
programme and governance in
the Mediterranean«. Exploring
contributions of the Interreg MED
Programme 2021-2027 to different
EUSAIR pillars and exploring
concrete ways of mainstreaming
transnational (at MED level) results
towards EUSAIR priorities.
16 | EUSAIR Slovene Presidency