360° of opportunities 2012 eurometropole - eurometropool
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360° of opportunities
2012
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What is Eurometropolis?
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A territory…
by Eurostar
by TGV
by Thalys/TGV
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EU
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614.196
1.091.438
256.266
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3 Territories - 147 communes
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What is Eurometropolis?
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An EGTC...to erase borders.
Objectives of the EGTC
Realising cross-border consistency throughout the entire territory
Ensuring consultation, dialogue and political debate
Encouraging en planning cross border projects
Facilitating daily life of the inhabitants
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To build Europe from the bottom up by removing borders between countries and regions The borders between BE and FR gradually disappeared, but in their daily lives, citizens still encounter obstacles!
Bus connections stop at the border
A call on a mobile phone between Mouscron and Roubaix costs as much as a call between Paris and Brussels
Hardly any information about cultural activities organised just a few kilometers away on the other side of the border
Students who live in Kortrijk often study in Ghent, Leuven, Brussels or Antwerp, but they rarely go to Lille
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To create a real cross-border metropolis on a European and international scale
Metropolises: engines of social and economic development
Charles Gachelin: 10 conditions for metropolisation :
1. Reach treshold levels (number of inhabitants, hotels,...)2. Quality– excellence3. New urban image4. Accessibility5. New town and country planning6. Capacity to organise large international events7. Consensus between stakeholders8. International function9. A range of dynamics10. Management of metropolisation
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World’s largest metropolises
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Europe’s largest metropolises
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Multi-level organisation
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Bottom up
Top
down
European Level
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States
Etat Etat fédéral - Federale Staat
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RegionalRégion Nord-Pas de
Calais
Vlaamse overheid
Wallonie
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
3
ProvincialDépartement du Nord
Provincie West-Vlaanderen
Province de Hainaut
4
Intermunicipal
organisations
Lille Métropole Communauté Urbaine
Intercommunale Leiedal
Intercommunale Wvi
Intercommunale IDETA
Intercommunale IEG
Mayors & Forum
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28 January 2008 - First EGTC in Europe
ORGANISATION of the EGTC
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Rudy Demotte/Stefaan de Clerck/Martine Aubry/Gilles Pargneaux
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RegionNat/Int Politics
Operators
Market
Civil Society
Local Politics
FUNCTIONING EGTC: THREE BASIC PRINCIPLES
• 1. Unanimity
2. Double parity France - Belgium Flanders - Wallonia
3.bilingualism French - Dutch
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A 3 STEPS STATEGY
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Concrete projects
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Domains
Economy –
Employment -
Education
Tourism
Spatial planning
& sustaina
ble develop-
ment
Culture Mobility Health
A cross-border labour market
Cross-border job fair:
• Meeting place for companies and job-seekers from the region
• Information about tax status, trainings
• Next edition: 27 november 2012, Lille
WORKINEUROMETROPOLIS
Traineeships/jobs on the other side of the border
• Plateforme d’insertion par la mobilité européenne:
traineeships for vocational education students in a Dutch-, English- or German-speaking environment
• www.vouseteslesbienvenus.eu:
Inform French & Walloon job-seekers about job offers in West-Flanders & facilitate contacts with Flemish companies
WORKINEUROMETROPOLIS
Youth/student mobility
• Interactive map of higher education institutions:to facilitate access to information about trainings offered by higher education institutions in Eurometropolis
• Joint degrees:
- enable students to spend part of their studies at another institution
- study programme = automatically recognized by home institution
- upon completion of study programme: national degrees from both institutions or joint degree
- tool aimed at promoting student & teaching staff mobility, strengthening the international dimension of study programmes
STUDY’NEUROMETROPOLIS
Cross-border co-operation in primary – secondary education
• To promote exchanges of children in primary schools & high schools
• (LT) Examine the feasability of a cross-border school (cf. Franco-German school Saarbrücken: French & German pupils & teachers)
Eurometropolis innovation platform
• Lille : “pôles de compétitivité” – poles of competitiveness
partnerships between companies, research centres and higher education institutions aimed at developing innovative projects
Aim: to facilitate cross-border networks between clusters
4 clusters
4 Desks
A gathering of experts workingfor the development ofinnovative industries.
INNOV’EUROMETROPOLISEconomy /
INV
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EU
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IS Communication tools:
International events (MIPIM, EXPO REAL…)
Website, Films, Layouts
Focus…
Around 1 000 000 active people
10 Motorways– 2 TGV stations – 7 Sea Ports
80 Millions of consumers ( <300km)
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INVESTINEUROMETROPOLIS
Internal mobility and external accessibility
of crucial importance for students –
employees – tourists – economic
development Study on the potential of cross-border
public transport Optimize cross-border public transport
networks Develop homogeneous fare structures –
ticket systems Eurometropolitan business plan of public
transport (begin 2013) Blue network Green links (bike)
MOVEINEUROMETROPOLIS
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VIS
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Tourism website www.visiteurometropolis.eu
(1/11/12)
Eurometropolitan Pass
Visual Rich Media
Tourist Map
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VISITEUROMETROPOLIS
Culture
• To create a network of cultural centres
• Develop adapted communication tools in order to inform inhabitants about cultural activities within the cross-border region
• Lille 3000
• Partnerships (NEXT,…)
Europe
• EGTC network: share expertise, best practices + make our voice heard
• Preparation of next programming period & new generation of Interreg programmes
Other cross-border initiatives
Other cross-border initiatives (TV)
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20 years of cross-border co-operation
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History
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The “COPIT”
• 5 intermunicipal agencies work together on a structural basis- LMCU (Lille)- Leiedal (Kortrijk)- Wvi (Roeselare/Ieper)- Ideta (Tournai)- IEG (Mouscron)
• Platform for debates and exchanges => co-operation on a structural basis
• Strategy for a cross-border metropolis
The French-Belgian parliamentary working group
• To identify the main legal obstacles to an effective cross-border co-operation
• To come up with a proposal for a cross-border political co-operation structure
Eén van de grondleggers: Pierre Mauroy
• 1973-2001: burgemeester van Lille
• 1989-2008: voorzitter LMCU
• 1981-1984: eerste minister Frankrijk
• Visie op stadsvernieuwing van Rijsel (HST-station)
• Grondlegger van de grensoverschrijdende samenwerking
One of the founding fathers: Pierre Mauroy
• 1973-2001: Mayor of Lille
• 1989-2008: President LMCU
• 1981-1984: Prime Minister France
• Key role in regeneration of city of Lille
• High-speed train Lille-Paris
• Channel tunnel – Eurostar
Founding father of cross-border co-operation
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