Networking
Creating networks built on the uniqueness of the territory, local knowledge, heritage and traditions, is an added value of MaNet. It is also a resource for innovation and services development that allows economic, cultural and social aspects of the project to converge, interlock and interlink. Transborder cooperation is understood to mean not only cooperation between neighbouring countries, but also regions and communities within Greece with different or common features. According to the Territorial Agenda of the European Union 2020, regional interdependencies are becoming more important. As a result, networking, cooperation at different levels is increasingly needed in order to cope with and to recover from different ‘external shocks’. Furthermore, networking impedes underutilization of human, cultural, economic and ecological resources of the border regions of the network and their peripheral position (COE 2014; Eurada 2014b; COPTA 2011:4; COE 2008:74).

