Cross-border cooperation of Polish and Czech area-based partnerships supported by Rural Development Programmes: Genuinely international or solely national projects?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/mgr-2024-0012" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/mgr-2024-0012</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mgr-2024-0012" target="_blank" >10.2478/mgr-2024-0012</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cross-border cooperation of Polish and Czech area-based partnerships supported by Rural Development Programmes: Genuinely international or solely national projects?

Original language description

The literature on cross-border cooperation in Europe is predominated by the analysis of the European Union (EU) INTERREG Programmes&apos; results, while other support funds are often neglected. To fill this research gap, the authors undertook the research on cross-border cooperation of the area-based partnerships (Local Action Groups - LAGs) from Poland and the Czech Republic, financed by the Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) 2014-2020. The main purpose of our paper is to identify the rationales for cooperation, strategies to find partners, the scope of activities and obstacles in implementing the joint projects. The qualitative research involved a content analysis of LAG documents and interviews with LAG managers. The actions in twelve identified cooperation projects were mainly related to local traditions, inventory and the promotion of local products and services, the development of tourism and environmental issues. The respondents have emphasised that these actions required separate financing by national RDPs following different administrative rules, even though when constituting the components of a single project. The bureaucratic restrictions resulted in a clear asymmetry of LAGs activities, manifested in a lower involvement of the Czech LAGs. As a result, many projects can be considered as highly unilateral, solely national rather than genuinely international, which has not been the intention of the LAG managers, however.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Moravian geographical reports

ISSN

1210-8812

e-ISSN

2199-6202

Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

137-150

UT code for WoS article

001262639200003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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