BorderLabs CE – Closing Workshop & Partner Meeting: Shaping Visions and Cooperation for Central Europe

In Person
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Date: 06.10.2026 - 07.10.2026
By: BorderLabs CE
 

FINAL PARTNER MEETING

6 October 2026
Venue: CESCI Office, 1137 Budapest, Újpesti rkp. 5.

Agenda

13:00

Arrivals

 

 

 

13:30

Welcome and introduction

Lead Partner

 

Introduction and agreement of the agenda

 

 

 

 

Reporting procedures – Status and outlook of activity reporting

Project secretariat, CESCI

 
  • ­  Pilot action final reports – further procedure and timing
  • ­  Final reports for solutions – approach and timing

 

 

 

13:45

Discussion and specification of solutions

All partners

 

What are the solutions developed in the result of pilots? What are their main features? How could they be transferred to other regions?

  • ­  Integrated cross-border strategy development
  • ­  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

 

 

 

15:30

Coffee break

 

 

 

 

16:00

Uptake of solutions (confirmed through written declarations) and preparation of regional final events

All partners

 

Who will be responsible for the uptake of solutions? Which events will finalise the implementation of pilots, and how do these events contribute to the uptake of solutions?

 

 

 

 

16:30

Cooperation of the partnership after the end of project implementation

CESCI, Lead Partner

 
  • ­  Follow-up of the Charter for participatory cross-border cooperation governance in CE (“action plan”)
  • ­  Cooperation concept for the cooperation of partners after the end of project implementation

 

 

 

 

17:15

Outlook on the continuation workshop and the launch of the BorderLabs online platform

CESCI

 

 

 

 

Any other business

All partners

 

 

 

17:30

End of the meeting

 

19:00

Joint dinner

 

 

BORDERLABS CE WORKSHOP

7 October 2026 

Venue: D50 Hotel and Event Centre, 1071 Budapest, Damjanich u. 50.

Agenda

9:00   Registration of the participants

9:30   Welcome addresses

  • Ms Viktória Lőrincz, Minister for Rural and Settlement Development, Hungary (tbc)
  • Mr Gyula Ocskay, Secretary General of CESCI

THE FRAMEWORK

9:45   Introduction of the Territorial Futures Forum process

  • Mr Nicolas Rossignol, Assistant Director, ESPON EGTC

10:10   Round-table: Challenges to the Central and Eastern European space in light of the next EU enlargement: Vision making and planning in the age of multiple uncertainties

Moderator: Mr Martin Reents (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg / IU)

Panellists:

  • Mr Erich Dallhammer, Executive Director (Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning, ÖIR)
  • Mr Andrzej Jakubowski, Assistant Professor (Maria Curie-Skłodowska Curie University)
  • Ms Romina Kocina, Director (EGTC GO)
  • Ms Alexandra Pintilie, PhD candidate (Technical University of Vienna)
  • Mr Nicolas Rossignol, Head of Unit (ESPON EGTC)
  • Ms Katarína Štefancová, Head of Department (Authority for Spatial Planning and Construction of the Slovak Republic)

11:40 Introduction and launching of the BorderLabs online platform

  • Ms Dubniczki Kitti, Director of CESCI

12:00 Lunch break

PERSPECTIVES

13:00   A new vision for Central and Eastern Europe? – World Café

The discussions are run in three groups with a 45-minute-long rotation system.

Topics:

  • identification of the biggest challenges before the enlargement
  • methodological background for a Central European spatial vision
  • design of the network of stakeholders supporting the vision making process.

15.30 Plenary session: wrap up and next steps

16.00 Closure of the event