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European Territorial Cooperation WHY?
Rainer Rohesalu Regional Development Department
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Wider context
The overall objective of all cross-border
cooperation programmes is to strengthen
cross-border cooperation through joint local and
regional initiatives.
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Cohesion for growth and employment


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Transnational cooperation 78 meek

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Cross-border cooperation 595 meek
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Trans-border cooperation 147 meek
Total 820 meek foreseen for Estonia ETC
programmes 12.86 billion EEK Participation in
ETC programmes!
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Music In The Region (Austria-Italy)

• Aim to create new impulses and initiatives for
  the Gustav Mahler Music Weeks on both sides of
  the regions national borders
• Innovative musical projects have been started as
  a direct result of the INTERREG project and the
  network that has developed
• Project Contemporary Music In the Tyrol promotes
  musicians and their work in the historical
  cross-border region of the Tyrol
• Youth orchestra, Puschtrawind consists of
  musicians from both sides of the border
• The project organised press conferences, defined
  steps of cooperation etc
• The result of the project is that the Gustav
  Mahler Music Weeks event has grown and turned
  into a festival including additional regions.
  This means a greater audience, more media
  attention, new ideas and new partnerships
• www.gustav-mahler.it

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Museum Photographic studio Seidel (Czech
Republic-Austria-Germany)

• A cultural inheritance consisting of thousands of
  photographs taken by photographer Josef Seidel
  and his son, from the end of the 19th century up
  until the middle of the 20th century has been
  developed into a cooperation project
• The house, studio and pictures will be preserved,
  digitalised and archived.
• An exhibition of images by Josef and Franz Seidel
  has already been displayed in different locations
  and there are further exhibitions in the pipeline
• The house will be converted into a museum with
  furniture and another interior
• The actual studio and dark room will be put into
  order with their original equipment
• Fotoatelier Seidel

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SIBLARCH (Sweden-Norway-Finland-Iceland)
In Scandinavia, the need for timber with a high
resistance to rot is great and therefore 800 000
m3 of pine trees are impregnated every year in
Sweden alone. The impregnation required to
protect the timber against decomposition of
fungus and bacteria also contains large amounts
of heavy metals that harm animals and nature. The
three goals that the project wishes to achieve
are to develop Siberian larch outdoors, find
methods for the development of larch forests and
evaluate tests carried out in trial areas where
larch trees have been transplanted
http//www.siblarch.net/
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• Be creative
• You can learn from each other
• Good ideas can be copied, enhanced and copied
  back
• Even small municipalities can inspire and set an
  example for many others

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INTERACT

• Project examples
• http//www.interact-eu.net/604900/672265/0/0

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Thank You! Additional informationwww.siseminis
teerium.ee/interregQuestionsetc_at_siseministeeri
um.ee Rainer Rohesalu
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