Cooperation in the Upper Rhine
The trinational cooperation in the Upper Rhine region in its current form dates back to the 1960s when associations dedicated to ongoing cross-border cooperation were founded in Germany, France and Switzerland. The Franco-German-Swiss Conference of the Upper Rhine (ORK) evolved in 1991 from the structures that had emerged in the 1970s and 1980s.
A wide range of projects are currently the subject of cooperation in the Upper Rhine region. These centre primarily around the fields of traffic and regional planning, education, energy and the environment, health, business and culture. With the support of the INTERREG-Upper Rhine programme, numerous projects have been completed in these and other sectors since 1990. A flagship project is the Joint European Campus where the Universities of Basel, Freiburg im Breisgau, Strasbourg, the University of Haute-Alsace (Mulhouse and Colmar) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology work closely together.
