Cross-border cooperation programmes for municipalities

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23.05.2023

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Cross-border cooperation programmes for municipalities

Attracting international funds for territorial development and restoration is of the utmost importance in martial law. The U-LEAD with Europe Programme provides municipalities expert support in preparing project applications and searching for existing international technical support programmes.

Cross-border cooperation is one of the tools for municipal development. Mykola Syusko, head of the U-LEAD with Europe regional office in the Zakarpattia Oblast, is convinced of this. According to him, municipalities in times of war need to find partners for joint applications to cross-border programmes, expand international cooperation and attract additional resources to implement large-scale projects.

The expert has prepared a selection of cross-border cooperation programmes for Ukrainian municipalities to participate in.

Interreg NEXT Poland-Ukraine 2021-2027 programme

Geography:

Poland: Podlaskie, Lubelskie, Podkarpackie Voivodeships, part of Mazowieckie Voivodeship;

Ukraine: Volyn, Lviv, Zakarpattia, Rivne, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblasts.

Programme budget: EUR 187.4 million.

Programme priorities:

Environment:

Objective 1: Promoting climate change adaptation, prevention of risks and enhancing resilience to natural disasters and catastrophes, using ecosystem-based approaches.

Objective 2: Promote access to water and sustainable water management.
Objective 3: Enhancing environmental protection and preservation, biodiversity of green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution.

Health:

Target: Ensure equitable access to health care and promote the sustainability of health systems, including primary health care, and facilitate the transition from institutional care to family medicine and municipality-based care.

Tourism:

Target: To enhance the role of culture and sustainable tourism in economic development, social inclusion and social innovation.

Cooperation:

Objective 1: To improve the efficiency of public administration by promoting legal and administrative cooperation and interaction between citizens, civil societies and institutions, in particular with a view to removing legal and other obstacles in the cross-border areas.
Objective 2: Building mutual trust by supporting measures that promote people-to-people interaction.

Borders:

Target: Secure and better protected Europe

More information about the programme: https://www.pbu2020.eu/ua

Interreg VI-A NEXT Hungary Slovakia Romania Ukraine 2021-2027 programme

Geography:

Hungary: Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén.

Slovakia: Košice region, Presov region.
Romania: Maramures, Satu Mare, Suceava.
Ukraine: Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi Oblasts.

Programme budget: EUR 66 million.

Programme priorities:

Sustainable green cross-border region:

promoting climate change adaptation, disaster risk prevention, and resilience, based on ecosystem approaches;

optimising the environmental protection and preservation, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution.

Healthy cross-border region:

ensure equal access to healthcare and develop sustainable healthcare systems (including primary healthcare and support for the transition from institutional to family and municipal care);

enhancing the role of culture and sustainable tourism in economic development, social inclusion and social innovation.

Interconnected cross-border region:

improving the efficiency of state and regional governance by facilitating legal and administrative coordination and interaction between citizens, representatives and institutions of the civil society, in particular with a view to removing legal and other obstacles in the cross-border areas.

More information about the programme: https://huskroua-cbc.eu/

Interreg NEXT Romania-Ukraine programme

Geography:

Romania: Maramures, Satu Mare, Botoshan, Suceava, Tulcea.
Ukraine: Odesa, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi Oblasts.

Programme budget: EUR 54 million.

Programme priorities:

Focus on the cross-border environment:

Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and sustainability, considering ecosystem-based approaches.

Improving the protection and conservation of natural biodiversity, and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution.

Social cross-border development:

Improving equitable access to inclusive and quality education, training and lifelong learning services through the development of accessible infrastructure, including by promoting distance and online education.

Ensure equitable access to health care and promote the accessibility of health care systems, including primary health care, and facilitate the transition from institutional care to family medicine and municipality-based care.
To enhance the role of culture and sustainable tourism in economic development, social inclusion and social innovation

Cross-border cooperation:

Secure and better protected Europe

More information about the programme: https://ro-ua.net/ua/

Danube Transnational programme 2021-2027

Geography:

Ukraine: Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia and Odesa Oblasts.

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia.

Programme budget: EUR 215 million.

Programme priorities:

Smart Danube Region:

Strengthening innovation and advanced technologies in the Danube Region.

Developing skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship.

Green and low-carbon Danube Region:

Promoting renewable energy.

Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster management.
Improving water and precipitation management.
Protecting biodiversity in ecological corridors and ecological areas.

Social Danube Region:

Accessible, inclusive and efficient labour markets.

Accessible and inclusive quality education, training and lifelong learning services.
Social and economic development through heritage, culture and tourism.