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Symposium: Euroregion in the Alps-Adriatic Context - Expectations, Arrangements and Obstacles.
Alps-Adriatic University Klagenfurt, 29.-30.9. 2005, z-129 (Oman-Saal)
‘Opening of the East’, transformation of the communist countries and membership in the European Union produce new opportunities but also new risks for the societies in the Alps-Adriatic region. A special topic in this context is cross-border cooperation. A lot has developed in the last decades in this respect, but many questions are still open or remain ambiguous. This is true for organizational paradigms as well as for social orientations. Impression: Expansion took place first of all in the cross-border economy. In the fields of culture, politics and social relations much less development is visible. Here, stagnation and even decrease is imaginable. Can economic developments remain untouched from such developments?
The symposium intends to discuss this broadly outlined situation in a wider societal context. For this, sociological theories concerning regional (trans-national) integration will provide a theoretical perspective (“Theory of Europe”)*. On its way from an “economic community” to a “union” in the aftermath of the breakdown of the Soviet system (cue: Iron Curtain) the European Union (EU) has produced numerous instruments for cross-border cooperation. The contributions to the symposium should on the one hand explain and interpret the background of this development (theoretical papers on regional integration) and on the other hand provide information about the current situation and future perspectives in the Alps-Adriatic region (special contributions).
This symposium is part of a cooperation between the Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt and the University of Trieste in the frame of the International University Institute for European Studies as the purpose of the symposium is amongst others to provide a scientific training environment for graduate students from the Joint Study MA in “Methods of European Policy Making” and the programme PhD “Transborder Policies for the Daily Life”.
* For information in advance see http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/val/sosio/vk/nieminen/
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 29 September
09:15 - 09:30 Welcome
Josef LANGER (Head of Department of Sociology)
Heinrich C. MAYR (Dean of Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Informatics)
09:30 - 10:15 Ari NIEMINEN (Helsinki): Dynamics of European Integration - What About the Regional Level?
11:00 - 11:45 Max HALLER (Graz): Euroregion - Rhetoric and Reality. Why Don’t Regions Count in the European Union?
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch ( Sponsored by Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank AG)
14:00 - 14:30 Martin SEGER (Klagenfurt): The Alps-Adriatic Region as Seen From Space
14:45 - 15:15 Daniele Del BIANCO (Gorizia/Trieste): The Euregio Concept and its Feasibility in the Alps-Adriatic Region
16:00 - 16:30 Hellwig VALENTIN (Klagenfurt): Strategien und Perspektiven der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Alpen Adria
16:45 - 17:15 Wolfgang PLATZER (Klagenfurt): Euregio: Carinthian Perspectives and Strategies
17:45 - 18:15 Bojan SUVOROV (Ljubljana): Slovenia and Cross-Border Cooperation
Friday, 30 September
09:00 - 9:45 Georg VOBRUBA (Leipzig): Cross-Border Regions in the Course of EU Expansion
10:00 - 10:30 Doris HATTENBERGER (Klagenfurt): Constitutional Aspects of Transborder Cooperation
11:00 - 10:30 Eugenio AMBROSI: From Alps-Adria working community to Euregio Alps-Adria
11:45 - 12:15 Giulio TARLAO: Contents and monitoring of Interreg cooperation - contributions from the protagonists
14:00 - 14:30 Paolo PASI (Treviso): Euroregions as micro-models of European integration
14:45 - 15:15 Serena FEDEL (Gorizia/Trieste): Working Women in Carinthia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Slovenia. A Comparison
16:00 - 16:30 Milan JAZBEC (Ljubljana): Security Dimensions of Cross-Border Cooperation in the Alps-Adriatic Region
16:45 - 17:15 Hannes SLAMANIG (Klagenfurt): Tourism - Networking in the Alps-Adriatic Region
17:30 - 18:30 IUIES Graduate Students
Prospective Conclusions
MORE INFORMATION:
Prof. Josef Langer,
‘Phone: ##43 463 2700 3414
Fax: ##43 463 2700 3499
E-Mail: josef.langer@uni-klu.ac.at
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