Cross-border and European cooperation
Cooperation between authorities on either side of a border only lasts if it rests on the right legal structure, a workable governance model and a clear link to European funding.
What we do
- Compare the legal options for a cooperation body (agreement, association, EGTC, local cross-border grouping, treaty-based or contractual arrangements) and select the most suitable.
- Draft statutes, agreements and governance rules; support the creation procedure.
- Design, evaluate and monitor European cooperation programmes and projects (INTERREG).
- Identify the legal and administrative obstacles to cross-border projects and formulate recommendations, up to the European level.
- Support negotiations between States, regions and local authorities, and the preparation of operating contracts for cross-border public services.
- Coordinate technical stakeholders (design offices, operators, infrastructure managers) in multicultural, multilevel settings.
What you get
- A comparison of legal options, with advantages, limits and conditions.
- Draft statutes, agreements or contracts ready for negotiation.
- A governance model and a set-up roadmap.
- Recommendations to amend or clarify the applicable legal framework.
- A monitoring framework for projects or programmes.
Lead partner: Jonathan Boudry.
Institutional design and governance
Clarify who decides what, how, and with whom: between elected members and administration, between partners of different statuses, and between levels of government.
What we do
- Assess and redesign governance models and decision-making processes.
- Build or update a strategic roadmap or an administration project.
- Strengthen cooperation between elected members and administration: confidential diagnosis, seminars, cooperation charter.
- Coach elected members and senior managers individually and in confidence.
- Transfer the method to other joint structures (local public companies, public interest groupings, joint authorities).
What you get
- A diagnosis and priority axes.
- A cooperation charter or governance rules.
- Redefined bodies and decision circuits.
- Steering indicators for senior management.
- A coordination toolkit.
Lead partner: Jonathan Boudry.
Territorial strategy and development
Give a territory a shared direction: diagnosis, foresight, project, then translation into policies and documents.
What we do
- Carry out strategic diagnoses and territorial analyses.
- Co-design a territorial project with elected members, services, partners and residents.
- Design, negotiate and monitor structuring development projects.
- Support the definition of transport policies, including maritime links between islands.
- Develop economic cooperation across borders and between islands: business networks, logistics clusters.
- Run public participation and ecological transition processes.
What you get
- A strategic diagnosis and a forward-looking territorial narrative.
- A vision document and its strategic axes.
- A multi-criteria prioritisation grid and a multi-year roadmap.
- A monitoring and evaluation system.
Lead partner: Jonathan Boudry.
Public-sector organisation, workforce and financial recovery
Restore the financial and organisational footing of a public body without breaking its public service or its social dialogue.
What we do
- Carry out organisational and financial diagnoses.
- Build a multi-year payroll trajectory and, where unavoidable, a managed workforce reduction.
- Prepare the dialogue with audit bodies and with the State around a recovery plan.
- Design shared-services schemes between an inter-municipal authority and its members: HR, finance, legal, prevention, IT.
- Secure HR processes and implement national reforms on civil-servant pay structure and working time.
- Support change with staff representatives and staff.
What you get
- A diagnosis that separates facts, perceptions and analysis.
- Target-organisation scenarios, compared on explicit criteria.
- A multi-year recovery trajectory.
- A shared-services scheme.
- A transfer of skills to your teams.
Lead partners: Jonathan Boudry and Aurélie Peyrat-Viola.
