TRANSNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Abstract

Sustainable development has become the development paradigm of our new era. The present paper aims to offer some considerations regarding transnational partnerships for sustainable development, focusing on the European Union countries from the South-Eastern area. The research methodology is based on the literature review of the topic, as well as a quantitative and qualitative analysis. Working in transnational partnerships has been seen as a way of adrressing complex issues, such as sustainable development. These kind of partnerships are voluntary, multi-stakeholder initiatives specifically linked to the implementation of globally agreed commitments, facilitating and strengthening the process towards sustainable development. The investigated EU countries from the South-East Europe demonstrate strong commitment for being part in transnational partnerships for sustainable development from different perspectives: the significant number of transnational partnerships and the great number of partners in each partnership coming from widespread areas, the wide variety of the approached topics directly connected to sustainable development and the types of organizations involved as partners. The merit of this paper, in spite of some limitations, is to contribute with an original research regarding transnational partnership for sustainable development, setting a focus point on the way to further research.

Keywords

• sustainable development, transnational partnership, South-East European Countries