12:30 Arrivals, light lunch
13:00 Welcome and introduction
- Introduction and agreement of the agenda
- Management and documentation of pilots
- Requirements and templates for pilot & solution reports
- Indicative schedule for final steps of pilot implementation
13:15 Pilot reports: Discussion and specification of solutions What are the solutions developed in the result of pilots? How will they be continued? How could they possibly be transferred to other regions? Which risks still need to be tackled?
- Integrated cross-border strategy development in the Three-Country Area
- Participatory governance for transition management in cross-border twin-cities
- Cross-border marketing and promotion of local products
- Cross-border development of sustainable and slow tourism
- Facilitation of joint management of border obstacles
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Pilot reports: Discussion and specification of final events All partners Which events are currently planned to finalise the implementation of pilots? How do these events contribute to the uptake of pilot results?
15:30 Outlook on the final event and the final phase of project implementation
- Multimedia learning platform and Charter for participatory cross-border cooperation governance in CE
- Final event in Brussels on 10 June 2026, realised back-to-back to the ECBP annual conference
- Discussion on the follow-up of the final event – how will it look like? Should there be additional events or meetings?
16:30 Study tours – practical preparation
- Update on practical aspects of upcoming study tours
16:45 Administrative and management issues
- Reporting procedures and communication activities
- Outlook on the expert workshop on obstacle management and the conference on cross-border cooperation
- Any other business
17:00 End of the meeting
19:00 Joint dinner
Tuesday, 3rd March 2026, Thematic Expert Workshop Venue: Instytut Rozwoju Terytorialnego (IRT), ul. Dawida 1a, 50-527 Wrocław
09:30 Welcome coffee
10:00 Welcome and introduction
Keynote: Towards a Central European Territorial Agenda – what might be the contribution of the management of legal and administrative obstacles? Dirk Peters, Senior Expert in European Cross-Border Cooperation (AEBR)
10:30 Theoretical framework and research on obstacle management Martin Unfried/Pim Mertens, Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility (ITEM): Learnings and experiences from the Schakelpunt at the Flemish-Dutch border
11:30 Coffee break
11:45 Good practices and promising approaches of obstacle management
- Dirk Gebhardt, Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR): Learnings and experiences from German-Polish “Demonstration Projects of Spatial Planning” (MORO)
- Carsten Jacob & Joanna Czasnojc, Euroregion Spree-Neiße-Bober: Towards a system of Border Information Points (BIP) along the German-Polish border
- Martin Hanf, Kommunalgemeinschaft Europaregion Pomerania e.V.: Information and consulting offers for business and citizens in the POMERANIA Euroregion (tbc)
- Gyula Ocskay (CESCI): The #ACCESS project – Promoting legal accessibility across the Slovak-Hungarian border
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Reports from the PILOT partners
- Provincial Government of Upper Austria
- Euroregion Nisa
- City of Frankfurt (Oder)
- EGTC GO
- EGTC Ister-Granum
15:15 Coffee break
15:30 Concluding discussion: How can successful management of obstacles contribute to the further integration of the Central European space?
16:00 End of the meeting
19:00 Joint dinner
Wednesday, 4 th March 2026 Conference „Cross-border cooperation in the era of challenges and transformation – space, energy, climate, culture”