With its working groups, debates and colloquiums, the COPIT-GPCI is forging links between the parties on either side of the border. It is building bridges between worlds which do not or only superficially know each other.

• It expands the perspective on the cross-border area and promotes the development of a common culture.
• It helps to identify common interests.
• It promotes mutual trust and consensus.
• It encourages policy makers, companies, planners and researchers to get to know each other better, to aim for complementarity and to express their own identity more effectively.

Cross-border working groups set up and coordinated in the context of the 
COPIT-GPCI

• The quality of industrial sites 
• Mobility: a dialogue on planning and the construction of road infrastructures
• Job creation
• Observation of the water
• Communication policy
• Joint promotion and marketing of the metropolis
  

The COPIT-GPCI helps cooperation with two, three or more partners

With respect for everyone's identity and competence, the COPIT-GPCI promotes the cross-border actions of its members and of all the parties, both public and private parties, which are cooperating on the development of the French-Belgian metropolis.

• It contributes to a better understanding of the cross-border area.
• It anticipates needs. It looks for opportunities and projects.
• It identifies the appropriate scale for the projects and brings competent people together.
• It finds the appropriate methods and levers for action

From strategy to project …
(projects carried out or supported by the COPIT-GPCI and/or its partners)

• Water purification
• Cross-border public transport
• Reconstruction of the canal from Deûle to the Scheldt
• Cross-border network of recreational cycle routes 
• Cross-border television
• Reconstruction of border posts at Camphin-Lamain and Rekkem-Ferrain
• Publications on the cross-border metropolis
• Language courses 
  

Projects

Annual summary of the activities

Report of the general meeting

A few dates

Image bank

Films