Growing together – along the FehmarnBelt and the Jutland Axes Stefan Seidler Commissioner for Cooperation with Denmark Ministry of Justice and European Affairs State of Schleswig-Holstein #GrowingNorth Welcome to the workshop

Flensburg Growing together – along the FehmarnBelt and the Jutland Axes Two strategic development axes to complement each other – FehmarnBelt and Jutland corridor Joint awareness of connections and potentials – instead of only living on our own Keeping-in those located „in between“ Selected focus themes to be based on each partnerʼs individual potentials, strentghts and interests Food Bio Economics Medicine Tourism Transport / Logistics R&D Energy Life Sciences Education & Labour Knowledge (R&D) Tourism Transport / Logistics Culture

State of Schleswig-Holstein – Nordic Cooperation The driver: not only our own interests, but relationship for the benefit of both sides

Frame Plan for Danish-German Cooperation Cluster Cooperation: Energy; Life Science, Technology, Food, Tourism, Knowledge, Culture and Creative Business. Coordinating infrastructure Enlarge cooperation R&D / education Enlarge mobility in working and everyday life Promote cultural cooperation (people-to-people) Ministers Declaration Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein Facilitate cross-border labour and recruitment (administration / taxes) Cooperation in vocational education (cross-border trainees) Transport and logistics (i.e. windmill escort, public-transportation and e- charge-stations for electric cars) New Declaration in 2016 (R&D, infrastructure, culture and Nordic Cooperation) (Trans-)Regional Cooperation Partnership Agreement: - Southern Denmark - Sealand FehmarnBelt (STRING, FemernBelt Development) Jutland Route (Consortium Jutland Corridor) Metropolregion Hamburg Region Sønderjylland-Schleswig Economic Growth, Innovation, Labour, Investments Schleswig- Holstein part of Northern Europe Minorities Several sub regional and local initiatives and projects EU-Programs ”INTERREG 5A” + ”INTERREG 5B Baltic Sea and North Sea Quality of Life Infrastructure Knowledge Cross- border integration

All of us have experience with cross-border mapping / strength-analysis Common fine-tuning of terminology Kill (some) of your darlings Common strategies Do not implement them by cross-border development agencies Animate central stakeholders to implement them Build a brand and tell your stories Don’t talk about the problems – you can’t remove all cross-border barriers. But you can handle them one by one. Some lessons learned