A two-day seminar “Training in Project Cycle Management” has started

Novi Sad, 28 May

The Provincial Secretariat for Labour, Employment and Gender Equality and the Office for European Affairs have organized a two-day seminar “Training in Project Cycle Management“ at the CePTOR Centre in Andrevlje, which is aimed at the representatives of rural women’s organizations in Vojvodina. The training is a part of the activities conducted within the project of the Provincial Secretariat for Labour, Employment and Gender Equality, “The year of rural women in Vojvodina”, whose aim is to contribute to strengthening and improving the position of women in rural areas through support and promotion of rural women’s organisations. Line Provincial Secretary, Miroslav Vasin said that the seminar aimed at teaching 40 women from all parts of Vojvodina how to write projects with which they would apply for pre-accession funds. “We want to enable women from our rural areas to participate independently in calls for proposals and provide European funds for their villages through cooperation based on the example of Hungary, Slovakia and other countries of the European Union”, said Miroslav Vasin.

“At the same time, we want to increase the knowledge, as well as to develop the skills of women in rural areas through the Provincial Government’s programme to improve the quality of life in rural areas. Therefore, we hope that a significant number of women attending today’s seminar will be employed within the employment programme for trainees, with specific tasks to create several projects related to the development of their environment, and then joint appearance before European funds”, said Vasin and announced that there will be a great event at the Novi Sad Fair on 15 October, where the creativity of rural women, as well as the projects resulting from the training will be presented. Vasin added that the Provincial Secretariat for Labour, Employment and Gender Equality, implements, in addition to the campaign “The year of rural women in Vojvodina”, other employment programmes, which are to the advantage of the unemployed people from rural areas. “We have continued with the employment programme for experts in undeveloped and less developed areas in Vojvodina and we will support the programmes related to the organisation of rural communities, removal of rural dump sites, afforestation through public work”, said Vasin and added that the realisation of the programme to encourage the registration of farms in rural areas is ongoing. 150 requests have been submitted in a month by those who want to register their farms with a financial subsidy of 160,000 dinars offered by the Provincial Secretariat for Labour, Employment and Gender Equality. The Director of the Office for European Affairs, Predrag Novikov emphasised that the strategic interest of the Office for European Affairs and all the secretariats of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is to use the opportunities that are ahead of us with reference to EU pre-accession funds. “At the time of economic challenge, it is particularly important to fight for every investment, every project and every workplace. Therefore, it is our aim to enable citizens to take advantage of the opportunity offered to us by the EU pre-accessing funds under the Cross-border Cooperation (CBC) Programme”, said Novikov and added that this year the allocated sum is €20 million. Andrija Aleksić, Sanja Čuturilov and Igor Bajić from the Office for European Affairs are the lecturers at the seminar.