9th Annual meeting of the EGTC Platform Hotel Gran Meliá Victoria, Avinguda de Joan Miró 21, Palma, Spain

27 September 2019

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26 September | Casal Solleric, Passeig del Born 27

20:00 Cocktail reception

27 September | Hotel Gran Meliá Victoria, Avinguda de Joan Miró 21

08:00 Registration opens | Please bring your National ID/Passport with you

09:00 Welcome address

Markku Markkula, First Vice President of the European Committee of the Regions

Francina Armengol, President of the Government of the Balearic Islands and President of the

EGTC Euroregion Pyrenees Mediterranean

09:30 Future of European Territorial Cooperation and the role of EGTCs Chair of the session: Antoni Vicens i Vicens, General Director for External Relations, Government

of the Balearic Islands

Dirk Peters, DG REGIO, European Commission

Guillaume Cros, Vice President of the Region of Occitanie (France), Alternate member of the CoR

Alfonso González Bondía, General Director European and Mediterranean Relations of the

Generalitat of Catalonia

Debate

10:45 Coffee break | Served in front of the conference room.

11:10 European Cross-Border Mechanism – state of play & future Chair of the session: Adam Karacsony, Rapporteur on "Boosting growth and

cohesion in EU border regions", CoR

Jean Peyrony, Director of the MOT – Mission Operationelle Transfrontalière

Dirk Peters, DG REGIO, European Commission

Thiemo W. Eser, Head of Division International Affairs and European Territorial Cooperation,

The Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Natalia Las Heras, Deputy Director General for European and International relations, Ministry of

Territorial Policy and Public Function, Spain

Debate

12:10 EGTC Platform welcomes new members Chair of the session: Kieran McCarthy, Member of the CoR, Cork City Council (IE)

Uxío Benitez, Director of EGTC Rio Mino (PT-ES)

Michael Dejozé, Director of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (DE-NL-BE)

12:30 Presentations of a study: Cross border public services

Martin Guillermo-Ramírez, Secretary General of the Association of European Border Regions

13:00 Buffet lunch | Served on the ground floor.

14:30 Best practices of EGTCs & Euroregions across Europe

Chair of the session & Presentation of the project E-health Eurocampus

Xavier Bernard-Sans, General Director of the EGTC Eurorégion Pyrénées-Méditerranée (FR-ES)

Project Fit4Co

Matthias Fink, EGTC Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino (IT-AT)

Project KISS ME

Sjaak Kamps, Director of Euregio Rhein-Waal (NL-DE)

Historical, Cultural and Natural Cycling Route around the Tatras mountains

Agnieszka Pyzowska, Director of EGTC Tatry (PL-SK) * Winner of the 2018 EGTC Awards *

15:45 EGTC Work Programme for 2020 and any other business Chair of the session: Marie-Claire Neill-Cowper, Head of Unit, EGTC Platform Secretariat, COTER

16:15 Closing

Pavel Branda, Rapporteur on "Small People to people projects" and President of CoR'

Interregional group on cross-border cooperation

Rosario Sánchez, Ministry of Finances and External Relations, Government of the Balearic Islands

16:30 End of the conference.

// End of the official programme //

18:30 Tour of Palma city center (approximately 1.5h)

Meeting point in front of Cathedral de Palma de Mallorca, Plaça de la Seu.

This guided tour is courtesy of Fundació Turisme Palma 365.