European Territorial Cooperation (Cross-border cooperation of the South-Bohemian Region)

The submitting final thesis deals with the Regional and Structural Policy and focuses on the third objective "European Territorial Cooperation". This is the objective with the lowest financial allocation and very often it stays out of the main interest. According to this, the thesis try to clear up the programmes, it also introduces concrete projects. The largest attention in the thesis is payed to cross-border cooperation, esp. to cross-border programmes in the South-Bohemian Region (Austria and Germany). In this part, there are also evaluated previous achievements and outlined prospective ways of cooperation with german-speaking neighbours