Tarptautinis bendradarbiavimas:naujos galimybės savivaldybėms

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

auste.tamulynaite@lsa.lt

Thank you for attention

QUESTIONS?

Austė TamulynaitėLSA patarėja

Adviser on EU Issues, Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania2007-10-18, Zarasai