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Baranya County Police Headquarters (Baranya Megyei Rendőr-főkapitányság) as the Beneficiary 1, in co-operation with the Lead Beneficiary - Croatian Mine Action Centre (CROMAC/HCR) and the Beneficiary 2 (Duna–Dráva Nemzeti Park/ National Park) organised on the 25 May 2018 in Villány (Hungary) the closing conference marking the end of the project entitled „De-contamination of war-affected territories“ (De-mine HU-HR II) on the territory of the Croatian-Hungarian border. 

“EU in my Region”, the EU-wide communication campaign, coordinated by the European Commission (DG REGIO) and implemented in co-operation with local partners, aims to encourage citizens to discover EU-funded projects near them. 

The Campaign includes Photo Contest, Blog Contest, Quiz as well as the Open EU Project Days.  Around 1500 events are organised during this week all around Europe, European Union (EU) and the EU outermost regions, promoting outcomes of the EU projects and the benefits of the EU Cohesion Policy and EU funds. 

2nd Call for Light Concepts within “B Light Scheme” is opened from 17 April 2018 until 18 June 2018. Details you can find here. 

The local events (B LIGHT INFORMATION DAY) of the „B Light“ Grant Scheme are scheduled on 19 April 2018 in Barcs at the address: Hősök tere 1, on 26 April 2018 in Pécs at the address: Szent István tér 12 (Pezsgőház Étterem),  on 9 May 2018 in Zalaegerszeg at the address: Köztársaság útja 17 (II. emeleti oktatóterem/ Zala Megyei Vállalkozásfejlesztési Alapítvány), on 10 May 2018 in Koprivnica at the address: Frankopanska 3 (HGK- Županijska komora Koprivnica), on 10 May 2018 in Čakovec at the address: Bana J. Jelačića 22 B (Tehnološko-inovacijski centar Međimurje, Informatička dvorana, 1. kat), on 16 May 2018 in Botykapeterd at the address:  Szigetvári u. 12 (Pálma Restaurant);  on 17 May 2018 in Mohács at the address: Eötvös u. 17-19.(Busóudvar Restaurant). on 22 May 2018 at Velika županijska vijećnica, Županijska 4, Osijek and on 29 May 2018 in Virovitica at the address: Ulica Poduzetnička zona II 18 (Poduzetnički inkubator Virovitica). 

Lead Beneficiary workshops for the Lead Beneficiaries of the 1st Call for Proposals were held on 24  April in Čakovec (HR) and on 26 April Pécs (HU).

Representatives of Lead Beneficiary organisations were introduced to the project-level reporting part of the IMIS system and were given all the information necessary for the preparation of the Project Report and the Application for Reimbursement.

Dear Lead Beneficiaries,

The Agency for Regional Development of the Republic of Croatia, in co-operation with the Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds and the Joint Secretariat and other bodies of the Interreg V-A Hungary-Croatia Co-operation Programme 2014-2020, organised in Čakovec and Osijek workshops on "Eligibility of costs and reporting" for Croatian project partners included in the 1st Call for proposals of the Interreg VA Hungary - Croatia Co-operation Program.

The Agency for Regional Development of the Republic of Croatia, in Co-operation with the Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds and the bodies of the Interreg V-A Hungary-Croatia Co-operation Programme 2014-2020, is organizing workshops on "Eligibility of costs and reporting" for Croatian project partners included in the 1st Call for proposals of the Interreg VA Hungary - Croatia Co-operation Program.

The European Commission launched on 10 January a public consultation on, inter alia, the future of cohesion policy to help design its proposals for the post 2020 Multiannual Financial Framework and for the next generation of financial programmes. 

Warm holiday greetings from everyone at Hungary-Croatia Joint Secretariat of the Interreg V-A Hungary-Croatia Co-operation Programme!

A new Europe-wide portal has just been launched, with all Interreg programmes (including Interreg V-A Hungary-Croatia Co-operation Programme 2014-2020) in one place. You can search the portal to find all the funding possibilities available in your region and find out all about applying!

https://interreg.eu/

To mark the sixth edition of European Cooperation Day (ECDay), Beneficiaries of the projects selected within the First Call for Proposals of the Interreg V-A Hungary-Croatia Co-operation Programme 2014-2020 have been organising, in co-operation with the Joint Secretariat of the Programme, various events and showcasing their current outcomes and future plans to the public. The list of the events you can find here:

HUHR ECDay project events 2017

Beneficiary Light (B Light), special strategic project of the Interreg V-A Hungary-Croatia Co-operation Programme 2014-2020 has been organising a series of Awareness Raising Events in the border area. 

More details with the contacts you can find here on the web: www.b2match.eu/blight/pages/19283-calendar

List of the Awareness Raising Events on the B Light project:

Pécs, Papnövelde utca 5 (Assembly Hall of Baranya County) / 6 June 2017; 15:00
Kaposvár, Ond vezér u. 1 (Somogy-Flandria Incub. House) / 13 June 2017; 14:00
Čakovec, Bana Josipa Jelačića 22b (TIC Međimurje) / 14 June 2017 10:00
Barcs, Hősök tere 1 (BARCS és TÉRSÉGE VÁLL. EGYES.) / 14 June 2017 14:00 
Csurgó, Széchenyi tér 1 (Közösségi Ház)  /  15 June 2017 / 14:00 
Zalaegerszeg, Gasparich Márk utca 18/a / 2^nd floor (Conference room - Infocentrum) / 20  June 2017 / 14:00
Koprivnica, Florijanski trg 4 (PORA- Razvojna agencija Podravine i Prigorja) / 28 June 2017 10:00
Virovitica, Ulica Poduzetnička zona II 18 (Poduzetnički inkubator Virovitica) / 21 July 12:00
Osijek, Županijska 4 (Mala vijećnica) / 28 July 10:00
Vinkovci, Glagoljaška 27 (Velika županijska vijećnica u Vinkovcima) / 24 August 10:00

OPENING CONFERENCE and MATCHMAKING EVENT with the Introduction to the B Light project for small and medium sized enterprises and meetings with potential project partners took place in Virovitica on 26 June 2017 at 11 a.m. at the Pannonian Competence Centre for Wood, Poduzetnička zona II 16, HR-33000 Virovitica, Croatia. 

A notice from the Croatian FLC Body, regarding the obligation of keeping separate project accounting for Croatian scientific institutions, was published today on the Programme website.

Beneficiary Light Grant Scheme, Programme's strategic project, was presented as best practice example at the kick-off event of Interreg Europe's KISS ME Project last week in Kleve, Germany.

Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovations and Investments (HAMAG-BICRO), as Lead Beneficiary of the project “Fostering value added business cooperation between SMEs operating on different sides of the Hungary-Croatia border” (“B Light”) implemented under the Interreg V-A Hungary-Croatia Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2014-2020 launches the 1st Call for Light Concepts for cooperating SMEs of Hungary and Croatia. 

Documents for the implementation of the projects, selected within the First Call for Proposals, for the Lead Beneficiaries (LBs) and the Beneficiaries (Bs) have been published on the official website of the Interreg V-A Hungary-Croatia Co-operation Programme 2014-2020: http://www.huhr-cbc.com/en/project-implementation-documents

We are celebrating this day by sharing with you the good news coming from the Programme. Just several weeks ago, the Monitoring Committee (MC) of the Interreg V-A Hungary-Croatia Cooperation Programme made the decision on the award of funding to the projects within the First Call for Proposals.

This means that now additional projects will join the two strategic projects already under implementation within the Programme and that we will soon be able to witness different joint developments in the field of sustainable tourism, education and inter-institutional cooperation all over the programme area.

To find out more, read our Newsletter!

The Managing Authority of the Programme sent out the official Letters on Award of Subsidy to the Lead Beneficiaries of the projects selected for funding within the First Call for Proposals, according to the Decision of the Monitoring Committee of 2 and 3 March 2017.

More than 50 joint Hungarian-Croatian development projects were awarded 23.4 M EUR for investments into tourism development, inter-institutional cooperation and improvement of educational facilities within the First Call for Proposals in the new financial perspective.