Strengthening Multilevel Governance in the European Union: the Case of Project BRAINS
Strengthening Multilevel Governance in the European Union: the Case of Project BRAINS

Author(s): Mimi Kornazheva
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: Cross-Border Cooperation Programme; Multi-level Governance; MLG; Bulgaria; Romania; EU; Cohesion Policy
Summary/Abstract: Project BRAINS (Bulgarian-Romanian Area Identities: Neighbourhood Study) has been implemented from 2011 to 2013 by Bulgarian-Romanian Interuniversity Europe Center (BRIE), a structure for cross-border cooperation in higher education and research, established in 2002 by the Bucharest Aca demy of Economic Studies (Romania), University of Ruse (Bulgaria), German Rectors’ Conference and German universities. The project has been initiated within the Programme for Cross-Border Cooperation Romania-Bulgaria 2007- 2013 as part of the Territorial Cooperation objective of EU cohesion policy. It is consistent with the strategy of the Programme, which aims at the establishment of joint frameworks of the Bulgarian-Romanian Cross-border Region, where cooperation between stakeholders is being developed, so that regional identity of the cross-border area can be strengthened.

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