Commissioned by the European Commission, the University of Strasbourg, the University of Artois, the University of Thessaloniki, CESCI, the MOT, the Euro-Institute and the TEIN Network have developed this online course, which is divided into four chapters which will provide you with an exhaustive overview on territorial cooperation in Europe:

• The first chapter will guide you through the foundations of territorial cooperation by questioning its origins, its evolution and its theoretical framework since its development after the end of the Second World War.
• A second chapter will depict the existing European policies in the field of territorial cooperation: Interreg, Neighbourhood Policy, Macro-regional strategies, etc., with the goal of analysing decision-making procedures, their implementation, their geographical dimensions and their impact.
• In the third one, a thematic approach is being proposed. For each of the 5 identified topics (health, spatial planning, environment, culture, mobility), you will be able discover how they have been tackled at the local level, to which cooperation needs they responded and how the different stakeholders intervened and interacted (multi-level-governance).
• Finally, a fourth chapter will explain how territorial cooperation is concretely implemented by local stakeholders, which difficulties they encounter and which means and tools were activated in order to overcome them.

If you want to know more, don’t hesitate, it’s here.