Since its foundation in 2004, the Euroregional Association for Comparative Public Law and European Law has been promoting legal research in the field of the European region of Tyrol, South Tyrol and Trentino, with special emphasis on comparative public law and European law. The exchange between academics and practitioners aims at a contribution of the legal community to the strengthening of the legal culture in the cross-border area in order to improve the interconnection between the respective national legal systems, but also to the international level. In this way, the obstacles resulting from the different legal languages in the area - German and Italian - are also tackled.

In the context of cross-border cooperation, working out the manifold legal issues that arise against the background of both the respective national legal systems and European law plays a significant role. This has been clearly demonstrated in recent years, in which the need to work out viable legal solutions for dealing with common problems has increasingly come to the fore. Against this background, the European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation Euregio Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino was founded in 2011 as an institutional framework for multifaceted cooperation. The importance of a regular exchange of information between administrations on the one hand and an in-depth consideration of legal issues of the most diverse nature on the other, from cooperation between universities to the health sector to questions of mobility, has not only been demonstrated by the pandemic since 2020. Cross-border cooperation, as cultivated in the Euroregional Association for Comparative Public Law and European Law between academia and practice, can make a significant contribution here.