In the Košice region, the goal is to extend the public transport fare system in eastern Slovakia to cross-border transport services. In order to remove the transport barrier identified in the reference group workshops, CESCI Carpathia asked legal experts from Pavol Jozef Šafárik University to compile a legal analysis of the VAT content of transport fares and wrote to the Slovak Ministry of Transport to discuss the regulatory options at a professional level at a meeting that took place in early September 2025. According to preliminary discussions, Hungarian service providers are open to the initiative.

In the Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark region, the process of establishing an EGTC was launched in 2024 on the initiative of the Bükki National Park Directorate with the aim of addressing the issue of joint geopark management. CESCI staff prepared draft versions of the EGTC’s founding documents. These were discussed and finalized during the reference group workshops. The approval and completion process in Hungary and the EU publication procedure could be completed by spring 2026.

Based on the lessons learned by the reference groups in the Bratislava metropolitan region, there is a clear need for a governance solution that systematically addresses the numerous challenges and obstacles experienced in the region. The winning bid submitted in response to the call for proposals by the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) and the French Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT) can be considered a direct result of the reference group workshops. The aim of the bid is to identify the cross-border development tasks of the Bratislava metropolitan area. Within the framework of this Resilient Borders project, CESCI, at the request of the baum_cityregion office, coordinated the organization and implementation of four professional workshops and developed an action plan summarizing governance frameworks and thematic development tasks by the end of August 2025.

On the initiative of CESCI, a working group on cross-border health cooperation was set up in 2023 within the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior, whose agenda included, among other things, the topic of the Hungarian-Slovak rescue agreement, which was added as a result of the #ACCESS project. The bilateral agreement could be signed as early as 2025. At the same time, the issue of cross-border outpatient and inpatient care was also discussed. At the reference group workshop in Šahy, representatives of the three hospitals present agreed to apply for funding under the 2025 Hungarian-Slovak Interreg program. In addition, with the involvement of CESCI, the first two consultations between the hospitals in Komárno and Esztergom took place, which also resulted in the intention to submit a joint application. The essence of this would be geographical compensation for care: the hospital in Komárno would accept Hungarian patients on a pilot basis, while the hospital in Esztergom would accept Slovak patients who do not have insurance with Dôvera (the latter can already use the services of the Esztergom hospital). The project would test the technical feasibility of the proposal with a view to submitting a proposal for the establishment of a cross-border healthcare system.