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CENTROPE is the Central European Region
CENTROPE is growing together – for two decades already, increasing social, economic and cultural interdependencies are an everyday reality in this border region between the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria. It is only natural to transform this space into a prospering European region that makes effective use of the available economic and social assets as well as of its linguistic and cultural variety for the benefit of coordinated, dynamic development. In 2003, leading political decision-makers thus agreed to initiate and support the building of the Central European Region CENTROPE. Since then, 16 cities and regions in four countries have been committed to forging a common future.
CENTROPE CAPACITY is the lead project funded under the EU programme CENTRAL EUROPE. In the period until 2012, it will create a multilateral, binding and sustainable framework for the cooperation of local and regional authorities, enterprises and public institutions in the Central European Region. It builds on the results of two INTERREG IIIA projects concluded in 2007, which provided the necessary preparatory work and development steps to establish the Central European Region CENTROPE. Under its programme priority “Competitiveness” CENTRAL EUROPE supports the project CENTROPE CAPACITY with a co-funding of 80%.
Impulse for intensified cooperation
CENTROPE CAPACITY stands for the conviction that the dynamic development of this transnational region can only be advanced if efficient structures are created in all four partner countries – regional CENTROPE offices that, catalyst-style, continuously generate impulses for intensified cooperation, develop concepts and promote the idea behind CENTROPE in the partner regions. With this level playing field, the cooperation of the CENTROPE partner cities and regions acquires a new quality standard.
To render CENTROPE more tangible, the main focus of CENTROPE CAPACITY will be on the introduction of practice-oriented cooperation activities, which may be cooperative business ventures, joint projects of research institutions and innovation centres, the development of common tourism services or cross-border agreements on spatial and traffic planning. The circle of stakeholders taking initiatives in or on behalf of CENTROPE is to be gradually widened.
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