All Austrian TEPs consider the integration of districts and municipalities into the partnerships important in order to better manage their measures to local needs. Very soon after establishing the TEPs on provincial level, the question of development of sub-regional components of pacts (creation of new TEPs under the provincial level) arose. Therefore, the TEPs created several co-operation models. Local actors are integrated in steering committees or working groups of TEPs. Some TEPs on provincial level act as overall roof and strategic board for TEP structures on local level. Existing local structures, such as e.g. Regional Management Associations serve as co-operation partners. Actors of both, the regional and local level co-ordinate their strategies and implement measures. Though all TEPs are working together with the local level, the intensity of co-operation varies within Austria.
The reconcilement of topics between the regional and local levels is regarded as tasks of the TEPs and, therefore, funded by the Austrian Operational Programme 2007-2013, priority 5 (co-funded by ESF).
Additional information is available in German at TEPs & Regionalisierung.