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:
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Poland: Podlaskie, Lubelskie, Podkarpackie Voivodeships, part of Mazowieckie Voivodeship;
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Ukraine: Volyn, Lviv, Zakarpattia, Rivne, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblasts.
Programme budget: EUR 187.4 million.
Programme priorities:
Environment:
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Objective 1: Promoting climate change adaptation, prevention of risks and enhancing resilience to natural disasters and catastrophes, using ecosystem-based approaches.
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Objective 2: Promote access to water and sustainable water management.
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Objective 3: Enhancing environmental protection and preservation, biodiversity of green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution.
Health:
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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:
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Target: To enhance the role of culture and sustainable tourism in economic development, social inclusion and social innovation.
Cooperation:
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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.
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Objective 2: Building mutual trust by supporting measures that promote people-to-people interaction.
Borders:
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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:
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Hungary: Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén.
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Slovakia: Košice region, Presov region.
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Romania: Maramures, Satu Mare, Suceava.
- Ukraine: Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi Oblasts.
Programme budget: EUR 66 million.
Programme priorities:
Sustainable green cross-border region:
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promoting climate change adaptation, disaster risk prevention, and resilience, based on ecosystem approaches;
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optimising the environmental protection and preservation, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution.
Healthy cross-border region:
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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);
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enhancing the role of culture and sustainable tourism in economic development, social inclusion and social innovation.
Interconnected cross-border region:
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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:
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Romania: Maramures, Satu Mare, Botoshan, Suceava, Tulcea.
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Ukraine: Odesa, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi Oblasts.
Programme budget: EUR 54 million.
Programme priorities:
Focus on the cross-border environment:
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Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and sustainability, considering ecosystem-based approaches.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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To enhance the role of culture and sustainable tourism in economic development, social inclusion and social innovation
Cross-border cooperation:
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Secure and better protected Europe
More information about the programme: https://ro-ua.net/ua/
Danube Transnational programme 2021-2027
Geography:
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Ukraine: Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia and Odesa Oblasts.
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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:
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Strengthening innovation and advanced technologies in the Danube Region.
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Developing skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship.
Green and low-carbon Danube Region:
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Promoting renewable energy.
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Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster management.
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Improving water and precipitation management.
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Protecting biodiversity in ecological corridors and ecological areas.
Social Danube Region:
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Accessible, inclusive and efficient labour markets.
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Accessible and inclusive quality education, training and lifelong learning services.
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Social and economic development through heritage, culture and tourism.
Improved territorial and macro-regional governance in the Danube Region:
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Increased institutional capacity for territorial and macro-regional governance.
More information about the programme: https://www.interreg-danube.eu/
