Współpraca zagraniczna samorządu województwa

The aim of this article is to depict the rules and procedures of conducting the foreign cooperation by self-governing voivodeships. The author presents national and international legal foundations of foreign cooperation, examines the concept itself and discusses the legal nature and the compulsory content of The priorities of the foreign cooperation. Moreover, this publication presents some of the most important forms of cooperation, for example party affiliation to international associations of local and regional communities or relatively new legal institution - European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation.