360° of opportunities 2012 EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

360° of opportunities

2012

EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

What is Eurometropolis?


A territory…

by Eurostar

by TGV

by Thalys/TGV

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1.091.438

256.266


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What is Eurometropolis?


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


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


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


World’s largest metropolises


Europe’s largest metropolises



Multi-level organisation


Bottom up

Top

down

European Level

1

States

Etat Etat fédéral - Federale Staat

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RegionalRégion Nord-Pas de

Calais

Vlaamse overheid

Wallonie

Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

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ProvincialDépartement du Nord

Provincie West-Vlaanderen

Province de Hainaut

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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


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


A 3 STEPS STATEGY


Concrete projects


Domains

Economy –

Employment -

Education

Tourism

Spatial planning

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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

http://www.job-eurometropool.com/

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

http://www.vouseteslesbienvenus.eu/

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 /

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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)


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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Tourism website www.visiteurometropolis.eu

(1/11/12)

Eurometropolitan Pass

Visual Rich Media

Tourist Map


VISITEUROMETROPOLIS

http://www.visiteurometropolis.eu/

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)


Other cross-border initiatives


http://www.futurotextiel.be/

20 years of cross-border co-operation


History


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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Documents

360° of opportunities 2012 EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL