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Working Better Together in a Team Europe Approach

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Last Updated: 05 December 2025
A tool to help EU Delegations work better together with Member States as Team Europe and with like-minded partners and country stakeholders, through Team Europe Initiatives, joint programming and joint implementation.

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2.2.3. South-South or Triangular cooperation

When it comes to joint implementation, there is much potential to open up and include from the very beginning the expertise, resources and solutions from the Global South. However, this opportunity has not yet been used much by the EU, other than for regional projects. Joint implementation approaches should consider more and more systematically South-South and triangular dimensions, also beyond regional settings.

South-South Cooperation and Triangular Cooperation are models that promote collaboration among developed countries, developing countries, and international organisations. Governments, civil society organisations, private sector entities, academia, and international institutions all have important parts to play. Their active engagement, knowledge-sharing, and innovative approaches are essential to realise the full potential of SSC and Triangular Cooperation.

EUROsocial : Programme for social cohesion in Latin America

The quality of the policy dialogues powered by EUROsociAL+, on the basis of the trust generated between peer institutions along the years, contributes to sharing values, approaching positions and building long-lasting partnerships both regionally and biregionally. Policy dialogues have been supported by Mesas país (methodology being used under EU technical cooperation regional programmes Eurosocial, Euroclima and EL PacCTO), which bring together, in a roundtable, the partner country’s authorities, the EU and its Member States involved in the implementation of the given EU programme, led by the EUD.

EUROsociAL+ is a regional programme with a mandate to work at national level in accordance with the regional agenda, and inversely, feeding the regional agenda with lessons learnt in each country. Due to the specificities of the Latin American region, EUROsociAL+ has been a forerunner of triangular cooperation, facilitating numerous exchanges between administrations from regional institutions. This has been possible thanks to a deep knowledge of the realities in the region, the identification of best practices both in Latin America and in Europe, accurate needs analysis and prioritising, and excellent dialogue with partner administrations, based on trust.

There is also an opportunity to leverage Structured permanent Team Europe dialogue mechanisms with Partner Countries already in place under EU regional public technical cooperation programmes in LAC region (EUROsociAL+, Euroclima+ EL PacCTO):and AL Invest Verde):Mesas país (Team Europe country roundtables.