360° of opportunities 2012 EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

What is Eurometropolis? EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL A territory…

by Eurostar by TGV by Thalys/TGV THE HEART OF EUROPE EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

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3 Territories communes EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

Our territory EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

What is Eurometropolis? EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL 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 EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

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 EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

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– excellence 3. New urban image 4. Accessibility 5. New town and country planning 6. Capacity to organise large international events 7. Consensus between stakeholders 8. International function 9. A range of dynamics 10. Management of metropolisation EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

World’s largest metropolises EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

Europe’s largest metropolises EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

Multi-level organisation EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

Bottom upBottom up Bottom upBottom up Top downTop down Top downTop down European Level Mayors & Forum EUROMETROPOlE - EUROMETROPOOL A MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCY Proximity Europe 28 January First EGTC in Europe

ORGANISATION of the EGTC EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

Rudy Demotte/Stefaan de Clerck/Martine Aubry/Gilles Pargneaux

CONNECTIONS EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

FUNCTIONING EGTC: THREE BASIC PRINCIPLES 1. Unanimity 2. Double parity France - Belgium Flanders - Wallonia 3.bilingualism French - Dutch EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

A 3 STEPS STATEGY EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

Concrete projects EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

Domains Econom y – Employme nt - Educatio n Tourism Spatial planning & sustainab le develop- ment CultureMobility 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

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 Inform French & Walloon job-seekers about job offers in West- Flanders & facilitate contacts with Flemish companies WORKINEUROMETROPOLIS

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 working for the development of innovative industries. INNOV’EUROMETROPOLIS Economy /

INVEST IN EURO METROPOLIS Communication tools: International events (MIPIM, EXPO REAL…) Website, Films, Layouts Focus… Around active people 10 Motorways– 2 TGV stations – 7 Sea Ports 80 Millions of consumers ( <300km) EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL 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 EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

VISIT EURO METROPOLIS Tourism website (1/11/12) Eurometropolitan Pass Visual Rich Media Tourist Map EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL VISITEUROMETROPOLIS

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) EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

Other cross-border initiatives EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

20 years of cross-border co-operation EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL History

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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 : burgemeester van Lille : voorzitter LMCU : eerste minister Frankrijk Visie op stadsvernieuwing van Rijsel (HST-station) Grondlegger van de grensoverschrijdende samenwerking

One of the founding fathers: Pierre Mauroy : Mayor of Lille : President LMCU : 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

Lille métropole EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

Lille métropole EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

Kortrijk EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL

Tournai EUROMETROPOLE - EUROMETROPOOL