MAnagement Tools and Relations for Interregional Organisation to Strengthening Co-operation in AAP
Regions on the fringes of long established, new or forthcoming EU Member States, in particular, are in need of transnational collaborations and development. The co-operation area of the MATRIOSCA-AAP project, the "Adria-Alpe-Pannonia" (AAP) space, comprises old and new EU Member States as well as candidate countries. It is characterised by strong regional and cultural diversity. The MATRIOSCA-AAP project concentrates on territories located at the interface of these countries and involves regions from Austria, Italy, Hungary, and Slovenia as well as the candidate country Croatia. In recent years the amount of co-operation on the project level in the AAP region has increased considerably and many new, but yet fragmented contacts have been established. The aim of the project is to promote an integrated and co-ordinated development of the AAP region by overcoming the problem of the numerous, but unorganised contacts on political, administrative and expert level. The project should also help to intensify collaboration efforts regarding development matters in the AAP co-operation area. Also other administrations of the region, like the Varazdin County (Croatia) and the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serbia) contribute to the successful project implementation