GRADe (ROBG–126)
Joint risk prevention and management system for Gradinari – Malu - Byala communities for a safe and developed cross-border region
What’s the goal?
| The project is aiming at achieving a better joint management of the risk situation in cross border area Byala (Ruse, Bulgaria) - Grădinari, Malu (Giurgiu, România) |
What’s the budget?
705,521.22 euro, out of which 599,693.04 euro ERDF
Who?
Lead Beneficiary (LB): Territorial Administrative Grădinari, Commune
Beneficiary 2 (B2): Territorial Administrative Unit- Malu Commune
Beneficiary 3 (B3): Municipality of Byala
When?
Start date: 31.12.2016
End date: 30.03.2019
Duration: 27 months
Where?
Ruse in Bulgaria
Giurgiu in Romania
How?
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Results (what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
Programme outputs: 18.179 people benefiting from actions of risk management, 18.179 people benefiting from flood protection measures, 18.179 people benefiting from forest fire protection measures, 1 joint partnership in the field of joint early warning and emergency response
Programme results: improved quality of risk management
Project status
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The project is finalized. Activities were carried out and the project results are currently being analyzed at Programme level (final report is being verified). Guidelines for common management of natural hazards and other emergency situations in Byala, Gradinari, Malu have been elaborated. Equipment for all project partners (2 Backhoes, 2 motor pumps, 3 electric power generators, tractor with trailer and snow blade, water and foam truck, portable radio stations and mobile phones tanker) was procured. The tractor and electrical power generator delivered to the LB, however, were not compliant with the technical specifications and the related contracts were terminated. The procurement procedures were relaunched and are ongoing. A training of the Joint Coordinating Committee members was delivered (Giurgiu) in cooperation with the Cross Border Center for Management and Coordination of the Interventions. Two working groups in Malu (22.06.2017) and Byala (25.07.2017) were organized as well. A broad awareness campaign on risk management, including 12 seminars in schools and 4 public debates with public institutions, was implemented in Byala, Gradinari, Malu. The joint applications „Floods” and “Fire” were also organized in Byala (03.05.2018) and Malu (05.06.2018). You can learn more from the project website: www.graderobg.eu. |
JEROME (ROBG-121)
Capabilities and interoperability for joint Romanian-Bulgarian cross-border first responder intervention to chemical-biological-radiological-nuclear-high yield explosive
What’s the goal?
| To improve specific field activities conducted by specialized Police structures immediately after an event implying chemical-biological-radiological-nuclear-high yield explosives (CBRNe). |
What’s the budget?
5,999,095.98 euro, out of which 5,099,231.59 euro ERDF
Who?
Lead beneficiary (LB): National Research-Development Institute for Materials Physics – NIMP (Romania)
Beneficiary 2 (B2): General Inspectorate of Romanian Police (Romania)
Beneficiary 3 (B3): Ministry of Interior (Bulgaria)
When?
Start date: 30.12.2016
End date: 29.06.2018
Duration: 18 months
Where?
Mehedinti, Calafat, Dolj, Oltin Romania
Montana, Vidin, Vraca in Bulgaria
How?
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Results (what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
Programme outputs: 1 joint partnership in the field of joint early warning and emergency response
Programme results: raising the quality of response and recovery in case of CBRNe events in the CBC area
Project status
The project is finalized.
The main project output - CBRNe mobile units for the Romanian and Bulgarian special intervention teams - was procured via a single procurement procedure organized by the LB. The CBRNe equipment was delivered, installed and commissioned at the General Inspectorate of Romanian Police (B2) and the BG Ministry of Interior (B3) and the staff was trained in operation of the equipment in May 2018. A laboratory, composed of Particle Size Analyzer and Supply of XRF Spectrometer was also purchased by the LB.
The project website is available at http://www.jerome-robg.eu/.
Danube Entrepreneurship (ROBG – 186)
Danube Partnership for Mobility and Entrepreneurship
What’s the goal?
| To increase the potential of independent activities and entrepreneurship to create jobs in the cross-border area |
What’s the budget?
453,967.48 euro, out of which 385,872.35 euro ERDF
Who?
Lead beneficiary: Mehedinţi Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture
Beneficiary (B2): Vidin Chamber of Commerce and Industry
When?
Start date: 18.08.2017
End date: 17.08.2019
Duration: 24 months
Where?
Vidin in Bulgaria
Mehedinţi in Romania
How?
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Results (what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
Programme outputs: 8 initiatives that activate workforce mobility in the cross border area, 960 participants in joint local employment initiatives and joint training
Programme results: 1.060 people that have access to joint employment initiatives
Project status
The project is finalized, the followings results achieved:
- 14 training sessions, attended by 240 people in fields like: Taxation, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship/ business, Marketing, Romanian and Bulgarian Language.
- 4 job clubs with 130 participants. During the Jobs club, the entrepreneurs present in front of the participants (students and unemployed people from Bulgaria and Romania), their business and free jobs position with the requirements of the position.
- 1 network of entrepreneurs from the cross-border green economy- the network was developed by signing 54 collaborative protocols, development of 1 action plan after the consultation with the entrepreneurs acting in the green economy, 1 data base with companies acting in the green energy (58 companies from Romania and 53 from Bulgaria
- 1 cross- border green job fair was held in Vidin on 09.08.2019, with 70 participants from Romania and Bulgaria.
- the followings studies were elaborated: Study for identification of entrepreneurial needs for trainings, adapted to the cross border region’s economy and Opportunities and challenges regarding cross-border entrepreneurship, published in 1,000 copies each and distributed within the project activities in order to enable all the economic operators and the interested organizations to apply the resulting information from the cross-border area.
All activities carried out were presented on the project websites: http://www.cciamh.ro/danube-entrepreneurship/ and http://vdcci.bg/danube-partnership/.
DanubEco (ROBG-164)
Danube Ecotourism
What’s the goal?
To support the development of the administrative capacity of public administration to pursue social and environmental public policy goals by eco-tourism development in the cross-border area.
What’s the budget?
735,766.45 euro, out of which 625,401.46 euro ERDF
Who?
Lead Beneficiary (LB): Access For All Association (Romania)
Beneficiary (B2): Ministry of Economy, Energy and Business Environment - MEBE (Romania)
Beneficiary (B3):Ministry of Tourism (Bulgaria)
Beneficiary (B4): Human Resources Development Agency (Bulgaria)
When?
Start date: 23.08.2017
End date: 22.08.2019
Duration: 24 months
Where?
Constanta, Romania
Ruse, Bulgaria
How?
- Project management;
- 6 joint cross-border training sessions on sustainable tourism criteria and certification;
- 6 joint cross-border training session on sustainable tourism destination management;
- 4 joint cross-border training sessions on using eco-tourism handbooks for helping private tourism operators to develop and market their offer;
- 6 joint cross-border training session on the development of sustainable tourism infrastructure;
- 4 joint cross-border training sessions on the Danube Sustainable Tourism Observatory (ies) of the World Tourism Organization and on the sustainable tourism indicators system;
- 2 familiarization-trips of the newly trained Danube officers in the CBC area;
- Study on the identification of legal barriers for the development of essential tourism infrastructures in the RO-BG CBC area: greenways, piers, observation infrastructure, etc.
- Lower Danube Green Tourism web-portal;
- Study on a cross-border statistics system for sustainable tourism in support of the Danube Sustainable Tourism Observatories;
- Develop 10 cross-border Danube sustainable tourism products
- Creation of an informal „Natural landscape protection partnership”and cross-border landscape contest;
- 2 press conferences for presenting the results of the project;
- Creation of the cross-border ecotourism experts network – Association;
- Fam-trips of tourism journalists in the CBC area (2)
- Conference on eco-tourism in the ROBG cross-border area
- Communication and visibility
Results (what’s the contribution to the Programme)?
Programme outputs:
- 3 supported cross border mechanisms to enhance cooperation capacity
Programme results:
- increase in the level of co-ordination of the public institutions in the eligible area
Project status
The project is finalized.
- 26 trainings in the tourism field were organized. The target group represented by 283 Romanian and Bulgarian participants was reached.
- Two Fam-trips of tourism journalists in the CBC area were organized by B4 during the period 04-06.10.2018 (17 participants) and during the period 14-16.10.2018 (25 participants).
- Study on the identification of legal barriers for the development of essential tourism infrastructures in the RO-BG CBC area was elaborated and it is available on the web platform.
- Study on a cross-border statistics system for sustainable tourism in support of the Danube Sustainable Tourism Observatories was elaborated and it is available on the web platform.
- 10 touristic products were elaborated and are available on the web platform.
- Lower Danube Green Tourism web-portal which provides also information about the project, at www.danube-ecotourism.com.
