This report is a synthesis of examples of, recommendations to and solution proposals for future efforts to improve well-functioning borderless labour markets. The report synthesises the results of the cooperation on exchange of experiences and solution proposals, which the parties behind the GOLIN project (Cross-border Regional Optimal Solutions in Scandinavia) have executed in 2003-2005, supported financially by the Nordic Council of Ministers via the Regional Sector, the Labour Market Sector and the Strategic Pool. The main activities include three seminars and a final conference.

GOLIN shall be regarded as both a catalogue of ideas and a process. During the final debate on the final seminar of the project in March 2005, attention was paid to the learning gained from the GOLIN project:

• that it is necessary to start from practice and not always merely from rules and regulations
  
• that the nature of bureaucracy is slow and reactive and therefore must be challenged actively, creatively and specifically
  
• that we must enhance our ability to make the problems political by means of strategic lobby work