CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION ELEMENTS ALONG ROMANIAN-UKRAINIAN BORDER – EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES
CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION ELEMENTS ALONG ROMANIAN-UKRAINIAN BORDER – EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES

Summary/Abstract: The study aims to identify several elements that influence the cooperation between Romania and Ukraine, also paths or fields for cooperation, as the local and regional stakeholders perceive. The field research had as subjects the potential applicants for cross-border projects in the eligible area of Romania-Ukraine Joint Operational Programme 2014-2020. The main research questions were related to the factors that encourage and block the cross-border cooperation, partnership aspects (partners, weaknesses or strengths, envisaged fields of cooperation), strategic ideas for the cross-border area development, universities involvement in the area. Comparing data from field researches applied at different times and groups we realized that in some aspects different groups give a different importance to the factors that encourage or block the cooperation, also, in the last research the relevance that the cross-border programmes have in the area to promote cooperation and partnership.

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