The Conference’s mission is to bring together many leading European and world researchers in the field of cross border cooperation and entrepreneurship to discuss and share their results and opinions in the context of the EU enlargement and the subsequent changes in the borders’ statutes.

• To analyse how the EU enlargement affects the statutes of the EU internal and external borders;

• To discuss the roles of the local actors (entrepreneurs, authorities, policy makers, citizens) in border regions in cross border cooperation and entrepreneurship development;

• To present the recent findings achieved in the frame of the 7FP CBCED Project;

• To discuss the possible recommendation to the EU, national, regional and local policies aimed at improving cross border cooperation and entrepreneurship development.

• Researchers

• Consultants

• Entrepreneurs

• Policy-makers