A regular meeting of the coordination group for the use of EU funds held and organised by European Affairs Fund of AP Vojvodina

A regular meeting of the coordination group for the use of EU funds aimed at the representatives of provincial secretariats, local self-governments and public enterprises has been held at the Assembly of AP Vojvodina. The meeting was attended by the representatives of Provincial Secretariat for Health Care, Social Policy and Demography, Provincial Secretariat for Economy, Employment and Gender Equality and Provincial Secretariat for Sports and Youth; moreover of municipalities of Bečej, Bački Petrovac, Beočin, Subotica, Bela Crkva, Srbobran, Žabalj, Kanjiža, Stara Pazova, Sremska Mitrovica, Sremski Karlovci and Pećinci; as well as of PUE “Informatika“ and PCTC “Novi Sad“.

The attendees were presented the ongoing EU programmes and calls for proposals, with a special emphasis on the Third Call for Proposals under the IPA Cross-Border Programme Croatia – Bosnia and Herzegovina 2007-2013; MEDIA sub-programme of the European Union; Visegrad+ Program Western Balkans (International Visegrad Fund), as well as of the call of the Central European Initiative (CEI KEP Austria).

The meeting was an occasion to strengthen the established cooperation with municipalities, secretariats and public-utility enterprises and establish new partnerships. Those interested obtained further information about the open EU calls for proposals available to institutions from Serbia and the representatives of the European Affairs Fund of AP Vojvodina offered additional assistance related to project development and application submission under relevant EU calls for proposals.

In the following months the plan is to visit local self-governments in AP Vojvodina in order to assess the possibility of developing joint projects aimed at increasing the EU funds absorption capacity of the province.