Kraslava municipality
4 July, 2012
Kraslava, LATVIA
Cross roads on 5 borders
of Latvia, Lithuania,
Belarus, Russia and
Estonia
Latvian office or Euroregion “Country
of lakes”
About us
Euroregion
“Country of
lakes”
Euroregion “Country of lakes”
2012
Belarus – 8
Latvia – 14
Lithuania - 7
Attracted financing
1999.-2006.gads
300 000
250 000
200 000
150 000
EUR
100 000
50 000
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Strategic priorities
2008-2013
• Social-economical
development
• Development of
infrastructure
• Tourism
• Evvironment protection
Co-operation partners
• Embassies and consulates
• Lithuanian ministry of Interior
• Latvian ministry of environment protection and
regional governments
• NGO "Peipsi project, Pskov" , Russian Federation
• Euroregion «Pskov-Livonia»
• Euroregion “Belovezskaja Puscha”
• Euroregion “Saule”
• Krasnogorodskij, Sebezskij, Nevelskij, Kunjinskij,
Strugo-Krasnenskij, Usvjatskij districts of Pskov
oblast, Rusian Federation
Short history I
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1998-first meetings
1999-first CBC project
2000-strategy
2001-culture, business development
2003-Culinary heritage
2005-Discover the Baltic Country of
lakes
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Short history and future II
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2007-Exciting cycling net
2009-LATLIT TRAFFIC
2010-GREEN INVESTMENTS
2011-CURED BY ANIMALS
2012-2014-ESTLATRUS TRAFFIC,
GREEN MAN, NEIGHBOURS ROAD,
3rd STEP
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Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus
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Project example
NEIGHBOURS
ROAD
4 project
partners
Lead Partner:
Kraslava municipality
Total Project
budget:
EUR 511 755,34
ENPI cofinancing:
EUR 460 579,80
Project Duration:
?? 07/2012 - 05/2013
Activities:
Border seminars, 79 info
points, reconstructed 2
stages or neighbours’ road
in LV and BY, parking place
in BY
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Latvia-Lithuania Programme
Latvia:
Kurzeme, Zemgale, Latgale
Covers 65% of the total territory of state
Effect on 42% of total state population
Lithuania:
Klaipėda, Telšiai, Šiauliai,
Panevėžys, Utena,
Kaunas (adjacent region)
Covers 63% of the total territory of state
Effect on 61% of total state population
BUDGET: EUR 60 mln. (2007–2013)
Shares 588 km of the border between two countries
Effect on 3 million people
Project example
CURED BY
ANIMALS
17 project
partners
Lead Partner:
Euroregion “Country of lakes”
Total Project
budget:
EUR 214 677,00
ERDF cofinancing:
EUR 182 475,45
Project Duration:
11/2010 - 12/2011
Direction:
Development of Active and
Sustainable Communities
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Where we are?
52 cross border cooperation programmes
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ENPI CBC Land border, Sea Crossing and Sea Basin
Programmes 2007 –2013
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Estonia-Latvia-Russia
Programme area
Estonia
Kirde-Eesti,
Lõuna-Eesti,
KeskEesti;adjoining:
Põhja-Eesti
Latvia
Latgale, Vidzeme;
adjoining: Riga
City and Pieriga
Russia
Leningrad Region,
Pskov Region and
Saint Petersburg
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Priority I
• Priority I: Socio-economic development
Priority is dedicated to strategic development of border region’s
competitiveness through support to business and labour market
development, improvements in communication networks and
exploring region’s potential for tourism as well as maintaining
efficient and safe borders.
• Measures:
• Measure 1.1 Fostering of socio-economic development and
encouraging business and entrepreneurship;
• Measure 1.2 Transport, logistics and communication
solutions;
• Measure 1.3 Tourism development.
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Priority II
• Priority II: Common challenges
Priority aims at addressing common problems and
initiating and continuing joint actions in the areas of
common interest on both sides of the border.
• Measures:
• Measure 2.1 Joint actions aimed at protection of
environment and natural resources;
• Measure 2.2 Preservation and promotion of cultural
and historical heritage and support of local traditional
skills;
• Measure 2.3 Improvement of energy efficiency and
promotion of renewable energy sources.
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Priority III
• Priority III: Promotion of people to people cooperation
Priority is focussing on small scale activities for
improving the cooperation of the border region
supporting wide range of activities to be performed by
regional and local municipalities and various actors of
the society, which have been identified as being of
crucial importance to a more integrated region.
• Measures:
• Measure 3.1 Development of local initiative, increasing
administrative capacities of local and regional
authorities;
• Measure 3.2 Cooperation in spheres of culture, sport,
education, social and health.
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Background of the project
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LATLIT TRAFFIC
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Project example
LATLIT TRAFFIC
16 project
partners
Approximate total
Project budget:
EUR 3 720 307.84
ERDF cofinancing:
EUR 3 162 261.66
Project Duration:
01/2009 - 01/2011
Direction:
Improvement of Internal
and External Accessibility of
the Border Region
EUSBSR:
Priority area 11
To improve internal and
external transport links
Lead Partner:
Euroregion “Country of lakes”
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ESTLATRUS TRAFFIC
• Increasing traffic system’s capability within EE-LVRU international importance transport corridors
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Project example
ESTLATRUS
TRAFFIC
~20 project
partners
Total Project
budget:
1 876 570,00EUR
ENPI cofinancing:
1 688 913,00 EUR (90%)
Project Duration:
04/2012 - 04/2014
Activities:
Traffic safety campaigns,
improvement of transit road
infrastructure
Lead Partner:
Latvian office or Euroregion “Country
of lakes”
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Partnership
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Conclusions I
CBC programmes are the succesful tool for the intergration/cooperation of border regions
CBC projects are bringing neighbours closer
CBC projects strengthenign the EU border because of
transparency across the border
Cross border communication helps to understand the
neighbours
Intervence across the border contributes to social – economic
development in spite of visa regimes, differences in legislations
etc.
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Conclusions II
«Hard» CBC projects contributes to the political
intergration/co-operation of border regions at the same time
for the sustainable development of border regions atractive for
living and visiting
Working on common challenges across the border (both
«hard» and «soft») gives a lot of unique common
opportunities to solve the problem with cross border aproach
«Soft» CBC projects strengthening the border regions on the
people-to people level, increasing the patriotism on local level,
strengthening the national border as well
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Thank You for attention!
Ilze Stabulniece
Manager of Latvian office of Euroregion “Country of lakes”
Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus
Manager of Estonia-Latvia-Russia project “ESTLATRUS TRAFFIC”
Brivibas 13, Kraslava
LV-5601, Latvia
Mob. Tel. +371 29472638
Email: ilze@kraslava.lv
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