Austė Tamulynaitė LSA patarėja Adviser on EU Issues, Association of Local Authorities in...
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International cooperation: new opportunities for Local Authorities
Austė TamulynaitėLSA patarėja
Adviser on EU Issues, Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania2007-10-18, Zarasai
Sponsorship of international cooperation for self-government:
• Search for partners through ALA’ contacts
• Projects of bilateral and multilateral cooperation
• EU programme “Europe for citizens” – meetings of citizens and thematic cooperation of cities
PROJECTS OF BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL COOPERATION: FLANDERS
• Support of the government of Flanders region (Belgium) to bilateral/trilateral cooperation with Flanders’ partners
• DOMAINS: tourism, culture, business, etc.
• MAX. SUPPORT: up to 300 thousand Euro, 50 per cent
• DURATION: up to 3 years
• Submission of projects: March
PROJECTS OF BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL COOPERATION: NORWAY, SWITZERLAND• Norwegian financial mechanism: scheme of subsidies “Locations
in Lithuania and Norway, exchange of experience among regional and Euro-regional partners and consolidation of mutual cooperation”
• Switzerland’s support mechanism: domain “support for initiatives of NGO, consolidating communal organizations and their cooperation with local authorities”
• Invitations to submit applications only for individual NFM projects
• http://www.finmin.lt/web/finmin/eeagrants/apie
PROJECTS OF BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL COOPERATION : DEVELOPING COOPERATION, TURKEY Projects of developing cooperation in Eastern Europe, South
Caucasus (1-100 th Lt)• Domains: democracy,development of human rights, good
management, security and stability, consolidation of eurointegration and administrative competences, activation of political, cultural, economic and social relations in LR
• Application are accepted all year round, till 31 October • Programme for years 2006-2010
Promotion of cooperation between municipalities of the EU and Turkey
• Domains: environment protection, tourism and culture, planning of cities.
• First announced in 2007, for one year, so far no info about the year 2008
EU Programme “Europe for citizens” 2007-2013
Meetings of citizens • Applicants: municipalities of the EU countries
(twins or intending to become twins). Only 1 application a year is allowed
• Duration of meetings: up to 21 days• Support: 2000-20000 Euro • Minimum 10 participants from 2 EU countries. If
more than 2 countries - min. 5 participants from each country
• Applications online!
EU Programme “Europe for citizens” 2007-2013
Thematic cooperation of twin towns • Applicants: municipalities (at least of 2 countries -
twins), institutions of regional authorities• Duration of meetings:1-3 days. In the project –
max. 2 seminars/conferences
• Simplified support: system of total allowances, not less than 3500 Euro
• Min. 20 participants from 3 municipalities,3 countries. 25 per cent of participants must be not from receiving country
STATISTICS
• First half of 2007 “Meetings of citizens” 799 applications submitted, 53% of applicants got financial support.
• Greater success of the projects intended to be implemented together with municipalities of “new” and ‘old” EU countries, rather than municipalities only of “new” or “old” EU countries.
• „Thematic networks“ 90 applications submitted • Lithuania submits too few applications...
USEFUL ADDRESSES
• Europe for citizens “Europe of active citizens” http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/citizenship/action1/towntwinning/funding_en.htm
• Projects of developing cooperation - www.urm.lt
• Norway’s and EEA’s support - www.finmin.lt/web/finmin/eeagrants
• Switzerland’s support - www.finmin.lt/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=PUB.1.206
• Lists of programmes funded by the European Commission -http://ec.europa.eu/grants/index_en.htm
• Search for partners, consultations www.lsa.lt
Thank you for attention
QUESTIONS?
Austė TamulynaitėLSA patarėja
Adviser on EU Issues, Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania2007-10-18, Zarasai