Upper Rhine Commission office plus Interreg process driver (Q4301513)
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Project Q4301513 in Switzerland, Germany
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Upper Rhine Commission office plus Interreg process driver |
Project Q4301513 in Switzerland, Germany |
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230,903.77 Euro
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412,328.16 Euro
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56.0 percent
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1 January 2015
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31 March 2021
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Hochrheinkommission
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47°36'52.96"N, 7°39'44.82"E
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47°37'18.23"N, 8°12'53.14"E
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47°37'26.58"N, 8°12'41.33"E
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47°23'24.50"N, 8°2'43.33"E
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47°41'42.76"N, 8°38'4.34"E
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The Upper Rhine Commission (HRK) office is pursuing the objective of increasingly bringing Interreg projects into the Upper Rhine region to increase the number of institutional partnerships and to promote the consolidation of the area across the external borders of the EU. HRK has therefore already made a corresponding temporary attempt to build up an Interreg process driver for a short period. Following the positive experiences from this test phase, an Interreg process driver is now to be established permanently. The Upper Rhine region is a dynamic border region right in the heart of Europe. More than a million people live and work here in the German-Swiss region. Dealing with the various challenges – a lack of specialists, development of the education infrastructure, demographic change, development of the employment market (cross-border commuters), traffic problems and environmental impact – cannot be limited by the national border but requires cross-border solutions, e.g. via the infrastructure and institutional partnerships. Good knowledge of both countries is required for this: of their public structures, their amenities and their political systems. Intensive contact between various parties across the national border has to be ensured. The Upper Rhine Commission (HRK), with its specialist and background knowledge and its networks, is an ideal platform for acting accordingly and jointly identifying challenges in the region, initiating constructive strategies and/or promoting them further, considering cross-border solutions, and bringing together partners from both countries for this purpose, or starting up their own model project according to their strategies. With a 50% CEO post in this area of responsibility, HRK wants to considerably improve and expand its range of services. The objective here is to intensify and extend institutional cooperation in the Upper Rhine region. This ranges from the level of trans-regional planning among the cantons and administrative districts to planning associations, as well as cooperation at a regional level between municipalities on both sides of the Rhine. This means that on the one hand, challenges should be addressed and solved in a project-related way. At the same time, one objective of HRK is to increasingly establish cross-border networks and to bring together the relevant target groups from politics, administration, business and science. HRK also wants to further build up a pivotal role between the Lake Constance and Upper Rhine areas and develop new networks and contacts in doing so. Redundancy is to be avoided and synergetic effects created through the transfer of information between the two regions. HRK will also provide a place for an Interreg process driver. This should help in the identification of projects, determining possible partners and giving support with applications. As problems and interests are often very similar on both sides of the Rhine, a common cross-Rhine solution or partnership can often be found, in order to be able to benefit from synergetic effects and to learn from others. It has also become evident that it is helpful for the project partners if an Interreg process driver can offer them support in the starting phase of the project idea up to the specific application. In the previous INTERREG IV promotional period, relatively few projects came from the Upper Rhine area. HRK is convinced that the Interreg process driver with its cross-border skills can push up the percentage. The number of institutional partnerships can be augmented and awareness of the cross-border EU funding programme can be raised via an increase in INTERREG projects from the region. (English)
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