EGTC
TRITIA
EGTC
TRITIA
Opole Voivodeship (PL)
Opole Voivodeship (PL)
Silesian Voivodeship (PL)
Opole Voivodeship (PL)
Silesian Voivodeship (PL)
Moravian – Silesian Region (CZ)
Opole Voivodeship (PL)
Silesian Voivodeship (PL)
Moravian – Silesian Region (CZ)
Žilina Self – Governing Region (SK)
Area: 9 411,67 km2 Population: 1 016 2000 Capital: Opole
Area: 12 333 km2 Population: 4 654 115 Capital: Katowice
Area: 5 427 km2 Population: 1 243 220 Capital: Ostrava
Area: 6 788 km2 Population: 694 129 Capital: Žilina
EGTC TRITIA – basic facts
Area:
34 069 km²
Inhabitants:
7 855 000
Seat of secretariat
Cieszyn
EGTC TRITIA – challenges we face
• All TRITIA regions have undergone restructuring
its economies traditionally based on heavy
industries.
• New investments make new interregional ties.
• Mountainous border area creates opportunities
for the development of tourism
• EGTC situated on a Baltic – Adriatic transport
corridor
• Emmissions of greenhouse gasses are too high.
• Regions suffer from record mortality caused by
traffic accidents
EGTC TRITIA – general objective
to facilitate and support cooperation among
members; support social and economic
cohesion of the regions mainly through
intelligent implementation of
programmes and projects of
territorial cooperation
EGTC TRITIA – main areas of
cooperation
Transport and infrastructure
connectivity and accessibility of the member
regions
Economic co-operation
innovative and competitive environment;
support of SMEs cooperation and cross-border
clusters creation and cooperation; applied
R&D support; joint business missions and
networking of the chambers of commerce
EGTC TRITIA – main areas of
cooperation
Tourism
joint promotion campaigns; support of
effective destination management institutions
operation; creation of supra-regional products
and brandmark of EGTC as a competitive
destination
Energy and environment
joint energy policy, renewable sources of
energy, actions to limit air pollution
EGTC TRITIA – other areas of
cooperation
• Emergency management
• Culture
• Human resources development including cooperation of lifelong education providers
• Co-operation of public institutions
• Sports
EGTC TRITIA – history
• 06/2009 – decision to
establish EGTC made;
working group established
• 12/2010 – regional
assemblies approve
convention and statutes
• 01/2011 – notifications of the
regions’ intention to
participate in the EGTC sent
to national authorities
• 03/2013 – TRITIA registration
EGTC TRITIA – agreed structure
Assembley
4 members
Supervisory board
4 members
Director
4 working
groups
Office
staff
EGTC TRITIA – building its strategy
with the support of INTERREG 4A
programmes
• “Strategy of systemic cooperation”
(Moravian-Silesian Region, Silesian
Voivodeship and Opole Voivodeship)
• “Cooperation” (Moravian-Silesian Region and
Žilina Self-Governing Region)
• “Innovative cooperation” (Žilina SelfGoverning Region and Silesian Voivodeship)
Thank you
Branislav Zacharides
bzacharides@zask.sk
www.egtctritia.eu