Cross-border Regional Optimal Solutions in Scandinavia

This report is a synthesis of examples of, recommendations to and solution proposals for future efforts to improve well-functioning borderless labour markets. The report synthesises the results of the cooperation on exchange of experiences and solution proposals, which the parties behind the GOLIN project (Cross-border Regional Optimal Solutions in Scandinavia) have executed in 2003-2005, supported financially by the Nordic Council of Ministers via the Regional Sector, the Labour Market Sector and the Strategic Pool. The main activities include three seminars and a final conference. GOLIN shall be regarded as both a catalogue of ideas and a process. During the final debate on the final seminar of the project in March 2005, attention was paid to the learning gained from the GOLIN project: that it is necessary to start from practice and not always merely from rules and regulations that the nature of bureaucracy is slow and reactive and therefore must be challenged actively, creatively and specifically that we must enhance our ability to make the problems political by means of strategic lobby work