After two years of collaborative work with local authorities, consular chambers, natural parks, and universities on both sides of the border, the Metropolis and the City of Nice have just had the first twelve cross-border cooperation projects approved by the monitoring committee of the European Alcotra program.
Twelve million euros, including 1.3 million for the metropolitan territory, will be allocated over three years to experiment with new policies, following a logic of urban-rural solidarity to benefit the economy, culture, tourism, digital technology, health, and biodiversity preservation.
For Christian Estrosi, President of the Metropolis, “Nice Côte d’Azur is more than ever asserting itself as a driving metropolis of Europe and as a leader in cross-border cooperation.”
More specifically, it is important to highlight the approval of the initial projects of the ALPIMED Territorial Integrated Plan, which will be coordinated by the Metropolis Nice Côte d’Azur: the “PATRIM” project on sustainable itinerancy led by the European Park EGTC (Mercantour/Alpi Marittime), the “INNOV” project on innovation labs by the Chamber of Commerce of Cuneo, and the governance project of the plan led by the Metropolis.
These projects are built in cooperation with stakeholders from the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region and the regions of Liguria, Piedmont, Aosta Valley, and Auvergne Rhône Alpes. They will bolster the action plan set out by the Transfrontier Cooperation Scheme of the Metropolis Nice Côte d’Azur.
