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Austė Tamulynaitė LSA patarėja Adviser on EU Issues, Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania

Tarptautinis bendradarbiavimas: naujos galimybės savivaldybėms International cooperation: new opportunities for Local Authorities. Austė Tamulynaitė LSA patarėja Adviser on EU Issues, Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania 2007-10-18, Zarasai.

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Austė Tamulynaitė LSA patarėja Adviser on EU Issues, Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania

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  1. Tarptautinis bendradarbiavimas:naujos galimybės savivaldybėmsInternational cooperation: new opportunities for Local Authorities Austė Tamulynaitė LSA patarėja Adviser on EU Issues, Association of Local Authoritiesin Lithuania 2007-10-18, Zarasai

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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 NFMprojects • http://www.finmin.lt/web/finmin/eeagrants/apie

  5. 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

  6. EU Programme “Europe for citizens” 2007-2013 Meetings of citizens • Applicants: municipalities of the EU countries (twins or intending to become twins). Only1 application a year is allowed • Duration of meetings: up to 21 days • Support: 2000-20000 Euro • Minimum 10 participants from2 EU countries. If more than 2 countries - min.5 participants from each country • Applications online!

  7. 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

  8. 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...

  9. 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, consultationswww.lsa.lt auste.tamulynaite@lsa.lt

  10. Thank you for attentionQUESTIONS? Austė Tamulynaitė LSA patarėja Adviser on EU Issues, Association of Local Authoritiesin Lithuania 2007-10-18, Zarasai

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