The "Congress of Europe's borders: smart cooperation", to be held on 25 and 26 June in A Coruña will be the first European Congress of borders and peripheral territories.CECICN (Conference of European Cross-Border and Inter-regional city networks) has developed over the last year a strategy paper on territorial cooperation, addressed to the Community institutions and national and regional authorities. In this text, called "Strategic Document on Smart Cooperation", CECICN defends some proposals to be integrated into the next programming period, in terms of territorial cooperation. During the celebration of the Congress contributions and reflections of the participants are is deemed the most important, especially in the discussions which will be maintained in the workshops that have been designed, precisely in order to give room and opportunity to all those who wish to express their positions, that will be subsequently submitted to the European institutions and political leaders. CECICN is composed of cross –border and interregional city networks which develop cooperation actions between cities and other territories, as part of its general or specific work. Actually, the CECICN is a platform which groups the networks of cities from the Atlantic, Baltic, Mediterranean, Adriatic, Iberian and MOT.