Abstract Nowadays also with the new legal organization of EGTC (Euopean Grouping of Territorial Cooperation).  Border regions, towns and districts promote cooperation as a tool for growth and change through policy development and strategic orientation within territorial cooperation and beyond regional development. Regional disparities in Slovakia are actually the highest among EU countries. The aim of the study is to measure the success rate of project and economic growth in the EGTC of Pons Danubii, geographically the region of Southwestern Slovakia (North-Western Hungary) mostly in the 2007-2013 programming period and focusing on prognosis and trend of the current new 2014-2020 period....