Overall objective:Optimization of transborder cooperation management of neighboring regions of Ukraine, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary.Specific objectives:1) Formation of the system of international monitoring of transborder cooperation 2) Establishment of the International Institute of Transborder Cooperation and Security of Borders (IICS) as an organizational mechanism of coordination of main aims, forms and methods of transborder activities of national subjects Main activities:Work package 1. Project management and dissemination of findings. Work package 2. Establishment of organizational structures.Work package 3. Development of the Concept «Effective transborder cooperation through international monitoring and coordination of activities of national subjects» Achievements: 1. Developed methodology of international monitoring of transborder cooperation which will contribute to obtainment of maximally full and objective information about the actual status of transborder cooperation and its scientific forecasting 2. Based on accumulated experiences of neighboring countries, an established and efficiently functional international scientific–consulting institution – the International Institute of Transborder Cooperation and Security of Borders (IICS)3. Identified optimal ways of synchronization of activities of transborder activity subjects and on that basis, increased efficiency of their interrelation.