Interreg – European Territorial Cooperation

One week
Novice

Course details

Are you planning to work in the field of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) and you would like to learn more about it and to hear about successful experiences from elsewhere in Europe? Or maybe you are already active in this field but you have always wished to dive deeper into this topic? Are you a student or a researcher working on this topic, or on topics linked to the territorial development in Europe across borders?

More than 30 years after the creation of the INTERREG programme, the European Commission has teamed up with some of the most renowned experts in the field of ETC to produce the very first MOOC* entirely dedicated to European Territorial Cooperation!

Target audience

Anyone interrested in European Territorial Cooperation!

Disclaimer: this MOOC was developed in 2020 and addresses topics and issues related to cooperation in the 2014-2020 programming period. Updates will soon be released with the latest insights about Interreg in 2021-2027.

Learning objectives

This online course 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 
  • A second chapter will depict the existing European policies in the field of territorial cooperation
  • 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
  • Finally, a fourth chapter will explain how territorial cooperation is concretely implemented by local stakeholders

Offered by

This content is offered by the European Commission. The European Commission is the European Union's politically independent executive arm. It is alone responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.

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Schedule

  1. Introduction
  2. General framework
  3. Main Policies
  4. Thematic Approach
  5. Tools of a cross-border cooperation

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