GIZ Retz - Idea

By the extension of the European Union, regions in previous peripheral locations now move more in the centre of Europe. Therefore, transnational co-operation becomes a key question for the future. The "Transnational Impulse Centres" (GIZes) are a showpiece project of European border regions and are concerned to overcome the borders frequently still existing in the heads of some people.

Altogether 11 GIZes along the border of Lower Austria to Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary offer suggestions and support performances for the transnational development of euinfo and everyday activities. Prejudices should be diminished in the respective small regions by close economic, social and cultural co-operations and the local population will be motivated to a more transnational collaboration.

Support of financial nature is provided by the European Union (program Interactive IIIa) as well as from regional conveyor means ecoplus and the "borderland promotion society" (NÖG) of Lower Austria.